Livestock and global change: Emerging issues for sustainable food systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 52, 2013, Pages 20878-20881

  Herrero, Mario ^a   Thornton, Philip K ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; INCOME; LIVESTOCK; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84891348331     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321844111     Document Type: Review

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