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Defining a land boundary for sustainable livestock consumption

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Van Zanten, Hannah H. E., Herrero, Mario, Van Hal, Ollie, Röös, Elin, Muller, Adrian, Garnett, Tara, Gerber, Pierre J., Schader, Christian, De Boer, Imke J. M.·2018·Global Change Biology

Abstract

The need for more sustainable production and consumption of animal source food (ASF) is central to the achievement of the sustainable development goals: within this context, wise use of land is a core challenge and concern. A key question in feeding the future world is: how much ASF should we eat? We demonstrate that livestock raised under the circular economy concept could provide a significant, nonnegligible part (9–23 g/per capita) of our daily protein needs (~50–60 g/per capita). This livestock then would not consume human‐edible biomass, such as grains, but mainly convert leftovers from arable land and grass resources into valuable food, implying that production of livestock feed is largely decoupled from arable land. The availability of these biomass streams for livestock then determines the boundaries for livestock production and consumption. Under this concept, the competition for land for feed or food would be minimized and compared to no ASF, including some ASF in the human diet could free up about one quarter of global arable land. Our results also demonstrate that restricted growth in consumption of ASF in Africa and Asia would be feasible under these boundary conditions, while reductions in the rest of the world would be necessary to meet land use sustainability criteria. Managing this expansion and contraction of future consumption of ASF is essential for achieving sustainable nutrition security.

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Authors
Van Zanten, H. H. E., Herrero, M., Van Hal, O., Röös, E., Muller, A., Garnett, T., Gerber, P. J., Schader, C., & De Boer, I. J. M.
Affiliations
  • Animal Production Systems Group Wageningen University & Research Wageningen the Netherlands
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
  • Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Frick Switzerland
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
  • Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau (CH)
Venue
Global Change Biology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2018-06-11
Volume
24
Issue
9
Pages
4185-4194
ISSN
  • 1354-1013 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2486
OpenAlex
W2804166887
Cited by
406
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 51 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 7
FWCI
3.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Global Change Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Epsilon Open Archive (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet biblioteket (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)) (acceptedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • ETH Zürich Research Collection (cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Agricultural and Food Production Studies
Keywords
animal source foods, livestock consumption, sustainable land use, circular economy, arable land, protein requirements, Sustainable Development Goals
MeSH terms
Animals, Animal Feed, Animal Husbandry, Cattle, Diet, Food Supply, Livestock

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