How Animal Agriculture Is Accelerating Global Deforestation

The primary catalyst behind global deforestation is beef production, with the conversion of land for cattle grazing and feed production ...

Agribusiness & Deforestation - Greenpeace USA

Some 80% of global deforestation is a result of agricultural production, which is also the leading cause of habitat destruction. Animal agriculture — livestock ...

COP26: Agricultural expansion drives almost 90 percent of global ...

In South America, almost three quarters of deforestation is due to livestock grazing. The FAO-led study was conducted using satellite data and ...

Unsustainable cattle ranching | WWF - Panda.org

Extensive cattle ranching is the number one culprit of deforestation in virtually every Amazon country, and it accounts for 80% of current deforestation.

The Role Of Agriculture In Deforestation - ClimaTalk

Over half of all deforestation globally serves to clear land for crops, and almost 40% to clear land for livestock [1]. Often, the rapidly ...

the animal agriculture industry and zero waste | Environmental Center

Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide emissions which has a global warming impact 296 times greater than carbon dioxide.

If global leaders want to eliminate deforestation, they need to take ...

The more beef people consume, the more trees the beef industry consumes to clear land for cattle and feed. Global meat production has already ...

Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation | SEI

Yet only half to two-thirds of this results in the expansion of active agricultural production on the deforested land. The study is a ...

How Livestock Farming Affects Climate Change, Explained

Deforestation is a monumentally damaging practice, and exacerbates all of the aforementioned impacts of livestock farming: greenhouse emissions, ...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss - UNEP

Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder – the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace, said, “The intensive farming of billions of animals ...

Earth.Org on LinkedIn: How Animal Agriculture Is Accelerating ...

Earth.Org's Post · How Animal Agriculture Is Accelerating Global Deforestation · More Relevant Posts · These Cattle Farmers Are Cutting Emissions ...

Factory farms cause 11% of climate disaster emissions

World Animal Protection is today publishing research showing how cruel factory farming contributes at least 11% of the global greenhouse gases fuelling climate ...

Analysis of food system drivers of deforestation highlights foreign ...

Approximately 90% of global forest cover changes between 2000 and 2018 were attributable to agricultural expansion, making food production ...

Animal Agriculture: How Bad Is It for Climate Change and the ...

Beef production alone is to blame for 41 percent of global deforestation, equal to more than two million hectares of land per year, and 72 ...

How agriculture is exacerbating global warming

Carbon dioxide is emitted through deforestation, land clearing for agriculture and soil degradation, while methane is produced through ...

Climate change, industrial animal agriculture, and the role of ...

Global food production is responsible for 35% of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) with the use of animals as a source for food, as well as livestock feed, ...

Livestock Don't Contribute 14.5% of Global Greenhouse Gas ...

FAO also estimates that livestock production resulted in about one-third as much deforestation and land-use change as Xu et al. (2021) had found ...

Does Animal Agriculture Cause Climate Change and Pandemics?

The global animal agriculture industry rears and slaughters billions of creatures each year to produce meat, dairy, eggs and other products, ...

Environmental impacts of animal agriculture - Wikipedia

Animal agriculture, in particular meat production, can cause pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, disease, and significant consumption of ...

Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating ...

By the far the biggest global driver of carbon emissions induced by deforestation is beef production in Brazil, the rest of Latin America ...