Prospects for Livestock Production in the Next Future
Abstract
Livestock systems occupy actually about 30% of the planet’s emerged ice-free terrestrial area.
Moreover, the livestock sector represents at least 1.3 billion persons among the long market chain and supports directly the livelihood of 600 million of poor smallholder farmers in the developping world (Thornton et al., 2006).
Livestock products provide important nutrients (globally 17% of kilocalorie consumption and 33% of high value protein consumption plus minerals and vitamins). However, there are large discrepancies between developed and developing countries.
It must also be mention that eating meat is not only a question of nutritional needs but also a question of taste, odor and texture as well as a question of culture, ethics, wealth and geographical area.a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
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