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Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects [1]

The livestock sector globally is highly dynamic. In developing countries, it is evolving in response to rapidly increasing demand for livestock products. In developed countries, demand for livestock products is stagnating, while many production systems are increasing their efficiency and environmental sustainability. Historical changes in the demand for livestock products have been largely driven by human population growth, income growth and urbanization and the production response in different livestock systems has been associated with science and technology as well as increases in animal numbers. In the future, production will increasingly be affected by competition for natural resources, particularly land and water, competition between food and feed and by the need to operate in a carbon-constrained economy.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
16/08/2010
Philip K. Thornton [3]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B [4]
365
2853–2867
Tags:
Livestock [5], Developing Countries [6], India [7], South Asia [8], Animal Products [9], Statistics [10], Milk [11], Grazing Lands [12], Fodder [13], Animal Breeding [14], Rural Development [15], Poverty [16]

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