Diversification not specialization reduces global and local environmental burdens from livestock production

Milk and beef production generates environmental burdens globally and locally. Across many regions a typical dairy intensification pathway is for dairy farms to specialize on milk production and reduce the co-production of beef (i.e. ‘dairy-beef’). Dairy-beef thus reduces and beef needs to be produc...

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Main Authors: Andreas D. Soteriades, Andreas Foskolos, David Styles, James M. Gibbons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-11-01
Series:Environment International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018330964