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World Bank discusses livestock, Part 3: Preventing disease, protecting livelihoods

by Danielle Nierenberg on June 6, 2007

Last week's World Bank workshop on livestock's "long shadow" brought together a diverse crowd. In addition to Bank staff, U.N. representatives, animal welfare activists, and environmental NGOs, Dr. Steve Osofsky from the Wildlife Conservation Society spoke to the group. But why would a conservation organization be interested in livestock?

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Worldwatch Papers

Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry - WWP #171
Venture Capitalism for a Tropical Forest: Cocoa in the Mata Atlântica - WWP #168
Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global Market - WWP #163
Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition - WWP #150
Nature's Cornucopia: Our Stake in Plant Diversity - WWP #148
Recycling Organic Waste: From Urban Pollutant to Farm Resource - WWP #135
The Agricultural Link: How Environmental Deterioration Could Disrupt Economic Progress - WWP #136
Shrinking Fields: Cropland Loss in a World of Eight Billion - WWP #131
Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the Environment - WWP #103
The Changing World Food Prospect: The Nineties and Beyond - WWP #85
Beyond the Green Revolution: New Approaches for Third World Agriculture - WWP #73
Soil Erosion: Quiet Crisis in the World Economy - WWP #60
U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power - WWP #51
Food or Fuel: New Competition for the World's Cropland - WWP #35
The Worldwide Loss of Cropland - WWP #24
The Two Faces of Malnutrition - WWP #9
The Politics and Responsibility of the North American Breadbasket - WWP #2

Worldwatch Books

State of the World Chapters

Farming in the Public Interest - State of the World 2002
Eradicating Hunger: A Growing Challenge - State of the World 2001
Redesigning Irrigated Agriculture - State of the World 2000
Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed - State of the World 2000
Feeding Nine Billion - State of the World 1999

Press Releases

TOWARDS HAPPIER MEALS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD - September 29, 2005
Local Food: A Holiday Recipe That's Better for You, for Farmers, and for Homeland Security - October 06, 2004
World Watch Magazine: July/August 2004 - June 21, 2004
World Watch Magazine: May/ June 2004 - April 19, 2004
Chocolate Offers New Hope for Saving Endangered Rainforest - December 04, 2003
Organizations Working To Rebuild Local Foodsheds - November 23, 2002
Actions people can take to promote local food systems - November 22, 2002
Globetrotting Food Will Travel Farther Than Ever This Thanksgiving - November 21, 2002
Organic Foods' New Day - October 29, 2002
Fact Sheet: New Organic Standards to Hit U.S. Shelves on October 21, 2002 - October 09, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Securing Water for People, Crops, and Ecosystems - July 16, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Ecological Farming - Reducing Hunger and Meeting Environmental Goals - June 11, 2002
Ethical Coffee: Powerful Concoction to Save Forests? - May 01, 2002
The Bioterror in you Burger - November 06, 2001
Eat Chocolate and Save the Atlantic Rainforest - October 31, 2001
All-You-Can-Eat Economy is Making the World Sick - May 24, 2001
How Now, Mad Cow? - March 08, 2001
Agribusiness Concentration, Not Low Prices, is Behind Global Farm Crisis - September 01, 2000
Chronic Hunger and Obesity Epidemic Eroding Global Progress - March 04, 2000
Chronic Hunger and Obesity Epidemic Eroding Global Progress - February 04, 2000
The United States and China: The Soybean Connection - November 09, 1999
Population Outrunning Water Supply as World Hits 6 Billion - September 23, 1999
Plant Losses Threaten Future Food Supplies and Health Care - September 16, 1999
China's Water Shortage Could Shake World Grain Markets - April 22, 1998
Rising Grain Proces May Disrupt Global Economic Progress - August 16, 1997
Recycling Organic Waste: A Win-Win Proposition - August 02, 1997
Food Security Deteriorating in the Nineties--Grain Prices More Volatile - March 06, 1997
Facing Reality at the World Food Summit - November 01, 1996
Water Conflicts Loom as Supplies Tighten; Food Security Threatened, Ecosystems in Decline - September 12, 1996
Cropland Losses Threaten World World Food Supplies - July 27, 1996
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE URGES WORLD BANK AND FAO TO OVERHAUL MISLEADING FOOD SUPPLY PROJECTIONS - May 01, 1996
WORLD LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY INDUSTRIES FACING CUTBACKS AS U.S. CORN RUNS LOW - April 04, 1996
Water Scarcities, Irrigation Setbacks Threaten Food Supplies - December 09, 1989

Links

World Watch Magazine Articles

World Population, Agriculture, and Malnutrition - September/ October 2004
Is Meat Sustainable? - July/ August 2004
Silent Winter? - May/ June 2004
Rocket Fuel in our Food - November/ December 2003
Feedlots of the Sea - September/ October 2003
This Old Barn, This New Money - July/ August 2003
Factory Farming in the Developing World - May/ June 2003
The Argument for Local Food - May/ June 2003
Rogue Corn On the Loose - November/ December 2002
A Win-win-win-win Industry for the Tropics - May/ June 2002
Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back - November/ December 2001
Biotech, African Corn, & the Vampire Weed - September/ October 2001
Organic Gold Rush - May/ June 2001
Homogenized Planet - March/ April 2001
Where Have All the Farmers Gone? - September/ October 2000
A Return to the Local: You Stay Home Too (the case for a local economy) - September/ October 2000
Escaping Hunger, Escaping Excess - July/ August 2000
The Biodiversity That People Made - May/ June 2000
When the World's Wells Run Dry - September/ October 1999
The Emperor's New Crops - July/ August 1999
China's Water Shortage Could Shake World Food Security - July/ August 1998
Blue Revolution: The Promises and Pitfalls of Fish Farming - March/ April 1998
Recycling Human Waste: Fertile Ground or Toxic Legacy? - January/ February 1998
Can We Raise Grain Yields Fast Enough? - July/ August 1997
The Nicotine Cartel - July/ August 1997
Eco-Farming in Fiji - July/ August 1997
Closing the Nutrient Loop - November/ December 1996
Asia is Losing Ground - November/ December 1996
The Six Floods - November/ December 1996
IPM and the War on Pests - March/ April 1996
Facing Food Scarcity - November/ December 1995
Assault on the Earth - March/ April 1995
Who Will Feed China? - September/ October 1994
Growing Fish in Fields - September/ October 1993
A Decade of Discontinuity - July/ August 1993
A Place for Pesticides? - May/ June 1992
Holy Cows, Unholy Trouble - September/ October 1991
Trouble Brewing - July/ August 1991
Fat of the Land - May/ June 1991
The Aral Sea: Going, Going... - January/ February 1991
Bred for the Hungry - January/ February 1990
Trouble on Tap - September/ October 1989
Feeding Six Billion - September/ October 1989
Land's End - May/ June 1989
Cradles of Life - May/ June 1989
Down the Tubes - March/ April 1989
Unhealthy Alliance - September/ October 1988
Breakthrough on Soil Erosion - May/ June 1988
The Vulnerability of Oil-Based Farming - March/ April 1988
Salmon Ranchers and Farmers Net Growing Harvest - January/ February 1988
Smoking Epidemic Widens - January/ February 1988