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Re-framing the climate change debate in the livestock sector: mitigation and adaptation options
M.G. Rivera-Ferre,
F. López-i-Gelats,
M. Howden,
P. Smith,
J.F. Morton,
M. Herrero,
Corresponding Author
M.G. Rivera-Ferre
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Correspondence to: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorF. López-i-Gelats
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorM. Howden
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorP. Smith
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorJ.F. Morton
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorM. Herrero
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorM.G. Rivera-Ferre,
F. López-i-Gelats,
M. Howden,
P. Smith,
J.F. Morton,
M. Herrero,
Corresponding Author
M.G. Rivera-Ferre
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Correspondence to: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorF. López-i-Gelats
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorM. Howden
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorP. Smith
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorJ.F. Morton
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorM. Herrero
Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorEdited by Louis Lebel, Domain Editor, and Mike Hulme, Editor-in-Chief
Conflict of interest: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article.
Abstract
Livestock play a key role in the climate change debate. As with crop-based agriculture, the sector is both a net greenhouse gas emitter and vulnerable to climate change. At the same time, it is an essential food source for millions of people worldwide, with other functions apart from food security such as savings and insurance. By comparison with crop-based agriculture, the interactions of livestock and climate change have been much less studied. The debate around livestock is confusing due to the coexistence of multiple livestock farming systems with differing functions for humans, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission profiles and different characteristics and boundary issues in their measurement, which are often pooled together. Consequently, the diversity of livestock farming systems and their functions to human systems are poorly represented and the role of the livestock sector in the climate change debate has not been adequately addressed. In this article, building upon the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC 5AR) findings, we review recent literature on livestock and climate change so as better to include this diversity in the adaptation and mitigation debate around livestock systems. For comparative purposes we use the same categories of managerial, technical, behavioral and policy-related action to organize both mitigation and adaptation options. We conclude that different livestock systems provide different functions to different human systems and require different strategies, so they cannot readily be pooled together. We also observe that, for the different livestock systems, several win-win strategies exist that effectively tackle both mitigation and adaptation options as well as food security. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:869–892. doi: 10.1002/wcc.421
This article is categorized under:
- The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Benefits of Mitigation
- Climate and Development > Knowledge and Action in Development
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