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BLGY1211 The Livestock Revolution and associated challengesIntroduction
Food revolution - the shift in diets and food consumption patterns towards livestock
products
Livestock revolution – increased production of animals to satisfy the food revolution
profound implications for human health, livelihoods and the environment in the
foreseeable future
Real green revolution – the global trend towards sustainable practices in agriculture
sustaining the natural resource base being one major challenge
Green Revolution of 1960s implicated in unsustainable and detrimental practices
with health, social and environmental impacts
Sustainable – the ability to maintain into perpetuity sustainable agriculture
integrates; environmental stewardship, farm profitability, and prosperous farming
communities (3 P’S; Planet, Profit, People)
Sustainable intensification of agriculture goal to increase food production from
existing farmland while minimizing pressure on the environment
Food revolution
Increased consumption increased demand
Biggest force behind the world food economy being increasingly driven by the sift of
diets and food consumption is the shift in food consumption patterns in less
developed countries
Demand for animal products form population growth, urbanization and income
growth (most important)
Population trends
Number of people on earth rising by 75 million per year majority in less
developed countries as incomes rising and diets diversifying double global
demand for food by 2050
Strengthening economies increases demand for protein
The number of people living in LDC will increase from 80% to 84% by 2018
Mature countries have very low projected rates of population growth, 0.3% to 0.4%
over 2009-2018
Income growth
Per Capita GDP – a measure of the total output of a country that takes the gross
domestic product (total value of all goods and services) and divides it by the
population useful when comparing countries as it shows the relative performance
of the countries rise signals growth in the economy and tends to translate as
increase in productivity
Low income countries; Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nepal and Zimbabwe population 0.8
billion urban population 28%
Middle income countries; Albania, Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Thailand
population 4.9 billion urban population 50%
High income countries; Australia, Chile, Germany, Japan, UK and USA population
1.3 billion, urban population 80%
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