Treating livestock as senseless production machines has led to rampant depletion of natural
resources, enhanced greenhouse gas emissions, gross animal welfare violations, and other …

Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

With the global meat market growing and intensive livestock farming systems increasing, the
impacts of livestock are a growing concern among consumers, further influencing their meat …

Crop and livestock production have become spatially decoupled in existing commercial
agricultural regimes throughout the world. These segregated high input production systems …

Throughout the world, animal production faces huge sustainability challenges. The latter are
exacerbated in the European Union (EU) by consumption issues linked, in particular, to the …

Ongoing specialization of crop and livestock systems provides socioeconomic benefits to the
farmer but has led to greater externalization of environmental costs when compared to …

In the present context of environmental damages, food systems constitute one of the key
burdens on the environment and resources. Dietary patterns emerge as a main leverage to …

Background Notwithstanding some controversies, the development of cell culture and tissue
engineering and the increasing demand for sustainable animal-based protein, has rendered …

The expression 'less but better'is used to guide Western meat consumption towards
sustainability. Its definition, however, lacks clarity and may push meat consumption further …

CONTEXT Agricultural intensification contributes to global food security and well-being by
supplying the food demand of a growing human population. However, ongoing land-use …