The dramatic consequences of the severe winters and droughts between 1999 and 2002 drew world-wide attention to Mongolia's important livestock sector and its extensive - and growing - nomadic pastoralists. Much of the focus in this regard was put on the impacts of the change from communist rule...

Animal agriculture is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon offset markets have emerged as a mechanism that allows entities to reduce their overall climate impact by financing projects that decrease emissions elsewhere in the economy. This is the first report to analyze...

This article puts forward a novel analogy between animal welfare law and international humanitarian law – two seemingly unrelated bodies of law that are both marked by the aporia of humanizing the inhumane. Based on a comparative analysis with the law of war, this article argues that animal...

The aim of this study is to show various aspects related to the slaughter of cattle and poultry in Poland for religious purposes and attempt to estimate the scale of this slaughter and possible economic losses for companies in the meat and poultry industry if a ban on religious slaughter was...

The main source of income and livelihood support to resource poor farmwomen in north-western Himalayan region is livestock-based agricultural activities. Activity analysis showed that 78% of the farmwomen were engaged in domestic activities followed by service (14%) and business (8%). The...

Climate models indicate that New Zealand’s farms will be increasingly exposed to adverse climate events in the future. In this study, we empirically investigate drought impacts on farm enterprises by linking financial, agricultural and productivity data from Statistics New Zealand’s...

Species-based inequality is embedded in our institutions of law, government, and property. Legal distinctions between people and animals drive biodiversity loss. Recent environmental movements—including the rights of nature, animal rights, and wildlife property ownership—seek to lessen the...

Population growth and rising affluence increase the demand for agricultural commodities. Associated growth in production increases dependency on natural resources in countries that attempt to meet part or all the new demand locally. This study assesses the impact of changing meat and milk...

Should nonhuman animals possess cost-benefit analysis (CBA) standing, and if so, to what extent? A lack of standing for animals does not mean that their interests are ignored; rather, it implies that their interests are only accounted for to the extent that those with standing – humans – feel...

This chapter places the criminalization of harm to non-human animals within a larger context of left and progressive efforts to use criminal law to address social problems. This chapter treats the animal welfare movement’s turn to criminal legal solutions as a case study of the broader...