Livestock Revolution Research Articles

Rising Consumption of Meat and Milk in Developing Countries Has Created a New Food Revolution

People in developing countries currently consume on average one-third the meat and one-quarter of the milk products per capita compared to the richer North, but this is changing rapidly. The amount of meat consumed in developing countries over the past has grown three times as much as it did in the developed countries. The Livestock Revolution is primarily driven by demand. Poor people everywhere are eating more animal products as their incomes rise above poverty level and as they become urbanized. By 2020, the share of developing countries in total world meat consumption will expand from 52% currently to 63%. By 2020, developing countries will consume 107 million metric tons (mmt) more meat and 177 mmt more milk than they did in 1996/1998, dwarfing developed-country increases of 19 mmt for meat and 32 mmt for milk. The projected increase in livestock production will require annual feed consumption of cereals to rise by nearly 300 mmt by 2020. Nonetheless, the inflation-adjusted prices of livestock and feed commodities are expected to fall marginally by 2020, compared to precipitous declines in the past 20 y. Structural change in the diets of billions of people is a primal force not easily reversed by governments. The incomes and nutrition of millions of rural poor in developing countries are improving. Yet in many cases these dietary changes also create serious environmental and health problems that require active policy involvement to prevent irreversible consequences.

Toward a dis-aggregated view of crop–livestock integration in Western Africa

This paper presents a framework for conceptualising crop–livestock integration along four dimensions: space, time, management and ownership. The framework highlights the fact that benefits from crop–livestock interactions can be gained by integration along one, some or all of these dimensions, although the space dimension is particularly important. The implications of four factors—the ‘sustainability imperative’; the human, livestock density relationship; the ‘livestock revolution’; and large-scale tsetse clearance—are then explored in relation to the claim that greater crop–livestock integration should be the basis of agricultural development in West Africa. The conclusion of this analysis is that greater crop–livestock integration is likely to be of interest primarily in ‘middle’ countryside areas with relatively good natural resources.

The Livestock revolution/implications – an African view

The rapid increase in the production and consumption of livestock and livestock products fuelled by population growth, urbanisation and increase in average per capita income has come to be known as the livestock revolution (Delgado et al 1999). A rapid growth in per capita consumption of livestock products in developing countries over the last decade (FOASTAT, 2002)

The ‘Livestock Revolution’ – can poor livestock-keepers benefit?

AbstractThe projected increase in global demand for animal products, recently termed ‘the Livestock Revolution’, presents livestock keepers, in both the developed and the developing world, with many opportunities but also some problems. The increase in demand, mainly in South and South-East Asia, is described, disaggregated by region and product type. Some of the implications, in terms of the environment, public health, grain prices etc, of this increase in demand are also identified.

Livestock farming: eating up the environment?

Research ArticleOpen AccessLivestock farming: eating up the environment? J R Barrett J R Barrett Search for more papers by this author Published:1 July 2001https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.109-a312Cited by:4AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by Bovenkerk B and Meijboom F (2012) Fish Welfare in Aquaculture: Explicating the Chain of Interactions Between Science and Ethics, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 10.1007/s10806-012-9395-x, 26:1, (41-61), Online publication date: 1-Feb-2013. Janzen H (2011) What place for livestock on a re-greening earth?, Animal Feed Science and Technology, 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2011.04.055, 166-167, (783-796), Online publication date: 1-Jun-2011. Pica-Ciamarra U and Otte J (2011) The ‘Livestock Revolution’: Rhetoric and Reality, Outlook on Agriculture, 10.5367/oa.2011.0030, 40:1, (7-19), Online publication date: 1-Mar-2011. Tacon A and Forster I (2003) Aquafeeds and the environment: policy implications, Aquaculture, 10.1016/S0044-8486(03)00476-9, 226:1-4, (181-189), Online publication date: 1-Oct-2003. Vol. 109, No. 7 July 2001Metrics About Article Metrics Publication History Originally published1 July 2001Published in print1 July 2001 Financial disclosuresPDF download License information EHP is an open-access journal published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. All content is public domain unless otherwise noted. Note to readers with disabilities EHP strives to ensure that all journal content is accessible to all readers. However, some figures and Supplemental Material published in EHP articles may not conform to 508 standards due to the complexity of the information being presented. If you need assistance accessing journal content, please contact [email protected]. Our staff will work with you to assess and meet your accessibility needs within 3 working days.