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2. Livestock's Long Shadow - Wikipedia

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   Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options is a United Nations report, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on 29 November 2006, [1] that "aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation". [1]

3. Food and Agriculture Organization - Wikipedia

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   Cereals. Dairy. Meat. sugar. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [note 1] ( FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread".

4. List of most valuable crops and livestock products - Wikipedia

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   The following list, derived from the statistics of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), lists the most valuable agricultural products produced by the countries of the world. The data in this article, unless otherwise noted, was reported for 2016.

5. Climate-smart agriculture - Wikipedia

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   Definition. The World Bank described climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as follows: "CSA is a set of agricultural practices and technologies which simultaneously boost productivity, enhance resilience and reduce GHG emissions ." [2] and "CSA is an integrated approach to managing landscapes—cropland, livestock, forests and fisheries--that address ...

6. Environmental impacts of animal agriculture - Wikipedia

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   The livestock sector also includes wool, egg and dairy production, the livestock used for tillage, and fish farming. Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions . Cows, sheep, and other ruminants digest their food by enteric fermentation , and their burps are the main source of methane emissions from land use ...

7. Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture - Wikipedia

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   AnGR is a subset of and a specific element of agricultural biodiversity . AnGR could be embodied in live populations or in conserved genetic materials such as cryoconserved semen or embryos. The diversity of animal genetic resources includes diversity at species, breed and within-breed level. Known are currently 8,800 different breeds of birds ...