ArticleScientific reports2021
Nutrient provision capacity of alternative livestock farming systems per area of arable farmland required.
Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Environmental influences on the distribution and ecology of the fluke intermediate hostParasitology · 2024Pooled it
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- Beef production in integrated crop-livestock systems of Uruguay: assessing economic, environmental, and food security trade-offs.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2026Article
- Carbon tunnel vision and sustainable meat production in the West: A disproportionate focus on dietary greenhouse gas emissions?Food science of animal resources · 2026Review
- Nutritional life cycle assessment for healthy and sustainable food systems: evidence and policy insights from Africa and Asia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Role of livestock in circular bioeconomy systems.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2025Article
- Are single global warming potential impact assessments adequate for carbon footprints of agri-food systems?Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2023Article
- Challenges for the balanced attribution of livestock's environmental impacts: the art of conveying simple messages around complex realities.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2023Article
- Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA).The international journal of life cycle assessment · 2023Article
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Abstract
Although climate impacts of ruminant agriculture are a major concern worldwide, using policy instruments to force grazing farms out of the livestock industry may diminish opportunities to produce nutritious food without exacerbating the food-feed competition for fertile and accessible land resources. Here, we present a new set of quantitative evidence to demonstrate that, per unit of overall nutrient value supplied by a given commodity, the demand for land suitable for human-edible crop production is considerably smaller under ruminant systems than monogastric systems, and consistently so at both farm and regional scales. We also demonstrate that imposition of a naïvely designed "red meat tax" has the potential to invite socioeconomic losses far greater than its environmental benefits, due largely to the induced misallocation of resources at the national scale. Our results reiterate the risk inherent in an excessively climate-focused debate on the role of livestock in human society and call for more multidimensional approaches of sustainability assessment to draw better-balanced policy packages.
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