Oxidative Stress Management in Farm Animals: Opportunities and Challenges (2025)

Asia's Livestock Industries: Changes and Environmental Consequences

Asia’s livestock populations and production of edible livestock have risen substantially in recent years. Asia has increased its global share of livestock and livestock products. Furthermore, it has greatly increased its involvement in world trade in edible livestock products, e.g., exports of poultry meat and pig meat and imports of bovine meat and milk products. This article highlights these changes focussing on China, considers the reasons for these and their possible consequences for the environment. Future possible threats to Asia’s export of livestock products are also discussed, such as environmental and animal welfare concerns.

World Livestock Production Systems FAO ANIMAL Current Status , Issues and Trends PRODUCTION AND HEALTH PAPER NO . 127

2003

Global food systems and public health: production methods and animal husbandry, A National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production Report. Pew …

2008

Asia's (Especially China's) Livestock Industries: Changes and Environmental Consequences

Asia’s livestock populations and production of edible livestock products have risen substantially in recent years. Asia has increased its global share of livestock and livestock products. Furthermore, it has greatly increased its involvement in world trade in edible livestock products, e.g., exports of poultry meat and pig meat and imports of bovine meat and milk products. This article highlights these changes focussing on China, considers the reasons for these and their possible consequences for the environment. Future possible threats to Asia’s export of livestock products are also discussed, such as environmental and animal welfare concerns.

Animal-source foods in the developing world: Demand for quality and safety

Animal-source foods offer a cheap source of high quality protein, and essential elements of the diets of the young and other sections of the family. Increased productivity in livestock systems has been seen as a means of combat-ing hunger and malnutrition amongst the world's poor. As the majority of the world's rural poor (and a good number in urban areas) are livestock keepers, such a productivity increase is highly pro-poor. Rising global demand for livestock products offers oppor-tunities to many poor people working across the livestock food supply chain to earn better incomes. This is being propelled by the growth of incomes and populations, particularly in urban areas, of developing countries. Developing countries' food delivery systems are often lacking in formal quality and safety control mechanisms, and indeed food-borne disease is a major public health problem in the developing world. Developing country consumers, however, are obviously aware of such haz-ards, a...

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Livestock Health and Farming, 2020

ILRI in Asia: An Assessment of priorities for Asian livestock research and development

1997

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Applying an environmental public health lens to the industrialization of food animal production in ten low-and middle-income countries

Globalization and Health, 2019

Background: Industrial food animal production (IFAP) is characterized by dense animal housing, high throughput, specialization, vertical integration, and corporate consolidation. Research in high-income countries has documented impacts on public health, the environment, and animal welfare. IFAP is proliferating in some low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where increased consumption of animal-source foods has occurred alongside rising incomes and efforts to address undernutrition. However, in these countries IFAP’s negative externalities could be amplified by inadequate infrastructure and resources to document issues and implement controls. Methods: Using UN FAOSTAT data, we selected ten LMICs where food animal production is expanding and assessed patterns of IFAP growth. We conducted a mixed methods review to explore factors affecting growth, evidence of impacts, and information gaps; we searched several databases for sources in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Data were extracted from 450+ sources, comprising peer-reviewed literature, government documents, NGO reports, and news articles. Results: In the selected LMICs, not only has livestock production increased, but the nature of expansion appears to have involved industrialized methods, to varying extents based on species and location. Expansion was promoted in some countries by explicit government policies. Animal densities, corporate structure, and pharmaceutical reliance in some areas mirrored conditions found in high-income countries. There were many reported weaknesses in regulation and capacity for enforcement surrounding production and animal welfare. Global trade increasingly influences movement of and access to inputs such as feed. There was a nascent, compelling body of scientific literature documenting IFAP’s negative environmental and public health externalities in some countries. Conclusions: LMICs may be attracted to IFAP for economic development and food security, as well as the potential for increasing access to animal-source foods and the role these foods can play in alleviating undernutrition. IFAP, however, is resource intensive. Industrialized production methods likely result in serious negative public health, environmental, and animal welfare impacts in LMICs. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic effort to assess IFAP trends through an environmental public health lens for a relatively large group of LMICs. It contributes to the literature by outlining urgent research priorities aimed at informing national and international decisions about the future of food animal production and efforts to tackle global undernutrition.

Environmental Impacts of Livestock in the Developing World

Environment, 2001