Livestock systems

Component is implemented in:

IMAGE land management model (version IMAGE land management 3.2) Components: Emissions Forest management Land cover and land use Land-use allocation Livestock systems Nutrients

Related IMAGE components

Agricultural economy Agriculture and land use Atmospheric composition and climate Crops and grass Drivers Land-use allocation

Projects/Applications

EU Resource efficiency (2011) project Global Environmental Outlook - GEO3 (2002) project Global Environmental Outlook - GEO4 (2007) project Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - MA (2005) project OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 (2008) project OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 (2012) project Roads from Rio+20 (2012) project

Models/Databases

MAGNET model

Key publications

Bouwman et al., 2005

References

Bouwman et al., 2005 Bouwman et al., 2006 Bruinsma, 2003 Delgado et al., 1999 FAO, 2012a Seré and Steinfeld, 1996

Flowchart Livestock systems. See also the Input/Output Table on the introduction page.

Key policy issues

• What are the impacts of increasing livestock production on land use, greenhouse gases and other emissions to air and surface water?
• How does the use of marginal lands for grazing increase the risk of degradation and loss of productivity, inducing more forest clearing?

Introduction