What is it about?
The paper develops a model to project meat demand to 2050 and examines the implications for greenhouse gas emissions.
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Why is it important?
The article is timely in that the UN Conferennce on Climate change in Paris will convene in December 2015 in which all nations will be expected to make proposals to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture and forestry and related land use change contributes around 25% of emissions, and livestock production contributes around 55% of agricultural emissions.
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The article not only addresses issues of global greenhouse gas emissions from future livestock production, but also reviews some of the key elements underlying long term regional forecasts of meat demand growth to future population, income and price changes in the framework of international trade .
Professor BRIAN J REVELL
Harper Adams University
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This page is a summary of: One Man's Meat … 2050? Ruminations on Future Meat Demand in the Context of Global Warming, Journal of Agricultural Economics, July 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12121.
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