Assessing and addressing the global state of food production data scarcity

EA Kebede, H Abou Ali, T Clavelle… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Food production data—such as crop, livestock, aquaculture and fisheries statistics—are
critical to achieving multiple sustainable development goals. However, the lack of reliable …

The role of edible insects to mitigate challenges for sustainability

RPF Guiné, P Correia, C Coelho, CA Costa - Open Agriculture, 2021 - degruyter.com
This review is focused on the utilization of insects as a new opportunity in food and feed
products, including their commercialization both in traditional and new markets. It has been …

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

M Herrero, P Havlík, H Valin, A Notenbaert… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
We present a unique, biologically consistent, spatially disaggregated global livestock
dataset containing information on biomass use, production, feed efficiency, excretion, and …

The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in develo** countries: A review of what we know and what we need to know

PK Thornton, J van de Steeg, A Notenbaert… - Agricultural systems, 2009 - Elsevier
Despite the importance of livestock to poor people and the magnitude of the changes that
are likely to befall livestock systems, the intersection of climate change and livestock in …

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

N Ramankutty, AT Evan, C Monfreda… - Global …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural activities have dramatically altered our planet's land surface. To understand the
extent and spatial distribution of these changes, we have developed a new global data set of …

Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance

A Bondeau, PC Smith, S Zaehle… - Global Change …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In order to better assess the role of agriculture within the global climate‐vegetation system,
we present a model of the managed planetary land surface, Lund–Potsdam–Jena managed …

From land cover change to land function dynamics: A major challenge to improve land characterization

PH Verburg, J Van De Steeg, A Veldkamp… - Journal of environmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Land cover change has always had a central role in land change science. This central role
is largely the result of the possibilities to map and characterize land cover based on …

Map** of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots

D Grace, FK Mutua, P Ochungo, RL Kruska, K Jones… - 2012 - cgspace.cgiar.org
The objective of this report is to present data and expert knowledge on poverty and
zoonoses hotspots to inform prioritisation of study areas on the transmission of disease in …

Current and future challenges and opportunities for livestock farming in West Africa: Perspectives from the case of Senegal

R Eeswaran, AP Nejadhashemi, A Faye, D Min… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Livestock farming is a livelihood activity and is critically important for the food and nutritional
security of the majority of the population in West African countries, including Senegal …

Potential for reduced methane and carbon dioxide emissions from livestock and pasture management in the tropics

PK Thornton, M Herrero - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2010 - pnas.org
We estimate the potential reductions in methane and carbon dioxide emissions from several
livestock and pasture management options in the mixed and rangeland-based production …