Animal Source Foods and Sustainable Global Food Security

Jessica Ramsden

No 245052, 2015: The Business of Food Security: Profitability, Sustainability and Risk, 10-12 August 2015 from Crawford Fund

Abstract: The development and adoption of new innovation in livestock production (including products, practices and genetics) can help farmers produce more food, more sustainably. Conservation organisations, among others, are calling for the need to freeze the environmental footprint of agriculture, particularly animal agriculture. In so doing, food can also be kept more affordable. This is an achievable goal. For example, with existing innovations, such as improved animal welfare, nutrition and genetics, we can raise the average annual increase in global milk yield from 13.5 litres/yr/cow to 24 litres. Realising this potential involves a combination of commercial opportunity, corporate responsibility and responsiveness to post-farm gate consumer dynamics. It also requires predictable science-based policy to support innovation across diverse production systems, and to facilitate global food trade.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 2015-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.245052

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