Limiting livestock production to pasture and by-products in a search for sustainable diets

Food Policy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-13

  Röös, Elin ^a   Patel, Mikaela ^a   Spångberg, Johanna ^a   Carlsson, Georg ^a   Rydhmer, Lotta ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological leftovers; Food consumption; Land use; Livestock production; Sustainable diets

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PASTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84949032260     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.10.008     Document Type: Article

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