Livestock's Long Shadow
| Author | Henning Steinfeld, Pierre Gerber, Tom Wassenaar, Vincent Castel, Mauricio Rosales, Cees de Haan. |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Agriculture Environment |
| Publisher | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | book website |
| Pages | 390 pp |
| ISBN | 92-5-105571-8 |
| OCLC | 77563364 |
| LC Class | SF140.E25 S744 2006 |
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, that "aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation". It stated that livestock accounts for 18% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, a figure which FAO changed to 14.5% in its 2013 study Tackling climate change through livestock.