carbon offset market or directly with payments—could increase the number of livestock producers who would profit from …

examine recently revised Clean Water Act (CWA) regulations targeting large-scale livestock operations to identify and quantify …

Livestock is recognized as one of the major drivers of current and future global change. This is caused on the … with little additional land, in the past decades, can be expected in the livestock sector in the future. To answer this … (GLOBIOM), expanded by a newly developed livestock module. The livestock module is based on the Sere and Steinfeld livestock …

The various ways in which livestock production systems can be incorporated into economic, partial-equilibrium, multi …-market models are presented, and the challenges outlined. A particular focus and illustrative case is livestock feed. Foremost among … the challenges is the reconciliation of scientific understanding of livestock feed requirements and production …

of adopters, so these policies could have long run structural implications for the livestock sector. Using a model of …

Climate change could affect the costs and returns of livestock production by altering the thermal environment of … animals thereby affecting animal health, reproduction, and the efficiency by which livestock convert feed into retained … products (especially meat and milk). In the United States, concentrated livestock operations are located in a variety of …

productivity (TFP) growth for crops and livestock accounting for input-output allocation. This paper extends previous work on TFP … measurement for livestock into ruminants and non-ruminant productivity measurement, given the differences in productivity growth … most of the productivity growth within the livestock sector. Given the rapid rates of productivity growth observed recently …

of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile … particular importance to upcoming federal regulation of large-scale livestock production under the Clean Air Act. By exploiting …

productivity growth for crops, ruminants and non-ruminant livestock, on a global basis. We then follow with tests for convergence … the sample are likely to experience larger productivity gains in livestock than in crops. Within livestock, the non …

dry areas, households’ accumulate livestock wealth, structural and cognitive social capital as insurance against risks and … livestock wealth and structural social capital as insurance against risks as we move from wet to dryer areas. Results from … abilities, it is therefore desirable to promote measures aimed at enhancing livestock wealth and structural social capital as …