The shrinking globe: Globalisation of food systems and the changing geographies of livestock production

Dickson-Hoyle, Sarah; Reenberg, Anette

doi:10.1080/00167223.2009.10649599

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“…This trend is partially driven by the increasing wealth of countries like China and India and an associated increased preference for animalbased diets (Shimokawa, 2015). The consumption of animal products requires significantly more land than vegetarian diets, and in general, wealthier people consume more food than poor people (Dickson-Hoyle and Reenberg, 2009). Since the food grown on these foreign-owned lands is likely to be exported, 10.3389/fevo.2022.790552 African nations must assign more land, often forested land in high rainfall areas, to domestic agricultural production for their growing human populations.…”

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The future of sub-Saharan Africa’s biodiversity in the face of climate and societal change

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Many of the world’s most biodiverse regions are found in the poorest and second most populous continent of Africa; a continent facing exceptional challenges. Africa is projected to quadruple its population by 2100 and experience increasingly severe climate change and environmental conflict—all of which will ravage biodiversity. Here we assess conservation threats facing Africa and consider how these threats will be affected by human population growth, economic expansion, and climate change. We then evaluate the current capacity and infrastructure available to conserve the continent’s biodiversity. We consider four key questions essential for the future of African conservation: (1) how to build societal support for conservation efforts within Africa; (2) how to build Africa’s education, research, and management capacity; (3) how to finance conservation efforts; and (4) is conservation through development the appropriate approach for Africa? While the challenges are great, ways forward are clear, and we present ideas on how progress can be made. Given Africa’s current modest capacity to address its biodiversity crisis, additional international funding is required, but estimates of the cost of conserving Africa’s biodiversity are within reach. The will to act must build on the sympathy for conservation that is evident in Africa, but this will require building the education capacity within the continent. Considering Africa’s rapidly growing population and the associated huge economic needs, options other than conservation through development need to be more effectively explored. Despite the gravity of the situation, we believe that concerted effort in the coming decades can successfully curb the loss of biodiversity in Africa.

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“…This is partially driven by increased wealth in these countries and a concomitant growing preference for animal‐based diets. The consumption of animal products requires significantly more land than vegetarian diets, and in general, wealthier people consume more food than poor people 52 . Since the food grown on these foreign‐owned lands will be exported, African nations will have to put more land, often forested land, into agricultural production to meet the food needs of their growing human populations.…”

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Primate conservation: Lessons learned in the last 20 years can guide future efforts

Chapman

Peres

2021

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Twenty years ago, we published an assessment of the threats facing primates and with the passing of two decades, we re‐evaluate identified threats, consider emerging pressures, identify exciting new avenues of research, and tackle how to change the system to rapidly advance primate and primate habitat conservation. Habitat destruction and hunting have increased, the danger of looming climate change is clearer, and there are emerging threats such as the sublethal effects of microplastics and pesticides. Despite these negative developments, protected areas are increasing, exciting new tools are now available, and the number of studies has grown exponentially. Many of the changes that need to occur to make rapid progress in primate conservation are in our purview to modify. We identify several dimensions indicating the time is right to make large advances; however, the question that remains is do we have the will to prevent widespread primate annihilation and extinction?

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“…The Political Economy of Meat third of all grain produced worldwide is now being used for meat production-some scholars also warn that the so-called Livestock Revolution propels an already severe competition for agricultural land (Davis and D'Odorico 2015;Dickson-Hoyle and Reenberg 2009). That is in fact a most traumatic rural transformation that peasant movements, especially in the meat producing context of Brazil, have resisted, decisively, over the past four decades (Lundström 2017;Ondetti 2008).…”

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The Political Economy of Meat

Lundström

2019

J Agric Environ Ethics

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This paper discusses variegated scholarly approaches to what is here typified as a political economy of meat. Identified as a multifaceted, transdisciplinary and most dynamic field of research, inquiries into the political economy of meat imbricate key issues of social and economic development, across the human-animal divide. While some scholars interpret livestock production as "a pathway from poverty", others observe deepened marginalization and exploitation. The argument raised in this paper is that concise engagement with multiple critical perspectives may facilitate further explorations into the social dynamics that characterize the political economy of meat.

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The shrinking globe: Globalisation of food systems and the changing geographies of livestock production

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

The future of sub-Saharan Africa’s biodiversity in the face of climate and societal change

The future of sub-Saharan Africa’s biodiversity in the face of climate and societal change

Primate conservation: Lessons learned in the last 20 years can guide future efforts

The Political Economy of Meat

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