Livestock-Environment Interactions
Issues and Options

| Cover page
| Preface
Chapter 1 | Livestock, environment and human needs Livestock in a changing world The environmental challenges
Chapter 2 | Where and how it happens "Hot Spots" of livestock-environment interactions Grazing and overgrazing Livestock and deforestation Crop-livestock interactions: intensification and involution Livestock and nutrient surplus Waste from processing Global overlays Concentrate feed production Gaseous emissions of livestock and waste Domestic animal diversity Underlying causes
Chapter 3 | What can be done? Principles and objectives Policy design Institutions Incentive policies Regulations Infrastructure development Information, training and extension Technologies Reduction of environmental damage Resource-enhancing technologies Resource-saving technologies Waste technologies Strategies for livestock production systems
Chapter 4 | Looking ahead: elements of future strategies The need for informed decision-making The need for consistent policies The need for institutional development The need to get prices right The need for technological change The need to develop infrastructure The need to change perspective Conclusions
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