Valuation of livestock eco-agri-food systems: poultry, beef and dairy

Baltussen, W.H.M.; Achterbosch, T.J.; Arets, E.J.M.M.; Blaeij, A.T. de; Erlenborn, N.; Fobelets, V.; Galgani, Pietro; Ruiz, Adrian de Groot; Hardwicke, R.; Hiemstra, S.J.; Horne, Peter van; Karachalios, O.A.; Kruseman, Gideon; Lord, R. F.; Ouweltjes, W.; Robles, Mauricio; Vellinga, Theun; Verkooijen, L.

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“…A speculative interpretation of the scenario results for expansion in the meat and dairy sector with a higher input from skilled labour and capital is that "footloose" livestock production systems may thrive in the vicinity of urban centres. These are capital-intensive production systems, aimed at maximum technical efficiency, yet with possible trade-offs in terms of benefits to ecological and human livelihood systems [52]. While these systems may provide clear benefits in terms of an effective and efficient food provision, if these systems depend on global imports of feed or intermediate products (frozen meat, milk powder), the general equilibrium effects on food security and diet quality at population level may be less beneficial for society than under an alternative scenario that promotes a more diverse domestic supply.…”

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Healthy Diets and Reduced Land Pressure: Towards a Double Gain for Future Food Systems in Nigeria

2019

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Nigeria is one of the most dynamic economies in Africa. Strong GDP and population growth coupled with urbanization trends place tremendous pressures on natural resources and the food systems that are dependent on them. Understanding the impact of these “mega trends” is important to identify key leverage points for navigating towards improved nutrition and food security in Nigeria. This paper contributes to the Foresight Project of the Food Systems for Healthier Diets which aims to analyse how the food system in Nigeria is expected to transform in the next decades, and to identify the leverage points for making sure that the transformation contributes to balanced consumer diets. For the food systems foresight, a well-established global economy-wide model, MAGNET, is applied that enables to capture the interlinkages among different food industry players in one consistent framework. By linking MAGNET to the GENUS nutritional database, it is further possible to relate the developments occurring on a macro-level with detailed macro and micronutrient consumption. Model projections suggest that a process of intensification of agriculture in combination with land substitution appears critical for the evolution of food and nutrition security, and for shifts towards healthy diets for the population. Intensification results in greater diversity of the production systems, which in turn cascades into positive effects on the diversity in the food supply and better food security outcomes.

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Healthy Diets and Reduced Land Pressure: Towards a Double Gain for Future Food Systems in Nigeria

2019

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“…From these studies, it is clear, among others, that arable products may be underpriced but that livestock products are clearly underpriced [15]. Then there are costs that are often overlooked such as the effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land-use change [16].…”

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The Butterfly Framework for the Assessment of Transitions towards a Circular and Climate Neutral Society

2022

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The Butterfly framework of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) for assessing transitions towards a circular and climate-neutral society is presented. The Butterfly framework is built after analysis of existing frameworks that could only partly comply with the needs of the full set of stakeholders interlinked and operating in domains like society and well-being; food, feed, and biobased production; natural resources and living environment. It shows that for adequate action perspectives on and in these domains, the socio-ecological, socio-technical, and socio-institutional subsystems should be fully integrated, and stakeholders should be equally consulted and appreciated. In order to advance and integrate action perspectives of different stakeholders in the light of the transition to circularity with high-level ambitions like climate neutrality, stakeholders (groups) need to understand their position and links in a full systems perspective, which the Butterfly framework provides.

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“…The indicators are referred to both: i) value attributes (monetary) measured with metric scales; ii) non-value attributes ascertained with non-metric scale, (i.e semantic Lickert scale). The non-value attributes, are commonly referred to the natural capital costs (NCC) whose exploitation generates negative externalities on the stock of ecosystem resources (Baltussen et al, 2017). The NCC are quantified indirectly with indicators, because the absence of market transactions makes these values randomly dependent on subjective evaluations (de Groot et al, 2002).…”

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A Multi--Criteria Decision approach for the sustainable dairy farm management

2022

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The profit maximization strategy still pursued by most of the farmers is largely responsible of the intensification of the production processes, natural resources' depletion and climate change. To curb the impact of the negative externalities, new strategies have been tempted based on the corporate social responsibility to make the economic objective compatible with the environmental and social ones in the sustainable agriculture. The aim of this research is to present an application of the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach to the dairy farming to generate sustainable solutions inclusive of the economic, environment and social objectives to satisfy the preferences of different stakeholder groups involved in the dairy farm management. This approach converts the profit maximization objective in sustainable goals to be achieved simultaneously at some predefined target levels. The optimal solution consists in finding a goals' combination by minimizing the deviations between goals and corresponding target values, weighted according with the stakeholders' preferences. Among the many possible solutions, the best one will satisfy the Pareto optimal criteria. The results suggest that the compromise solutions obtained with MCDM in the weighted goal programming (WGP) version is different from profit maximization due to the achievement of the many dimensions of sustainability reflecting the stakeholders' preferences for economic environment and social goals. Sensitive and trade off analysis contribute to improve the sustainable solution in whole farm planning. This approach contributes also to formulate policy measures to address the objectives of farmers versus goals of social and public interest.

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Valuation of livestock eco-agri-food systems: poultry, beef and dairy

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Healthy Diets and Reduced Land Pressure: Towards a Double Gain for Future Food Systems in Nigeria

Healthy Diets and Reduced Land Pressure: Towards a Double Gain for Future Food Systems in Nigeria

The Butterfly Framework for the Assessment of Transitions towards a Circular and Climate Neutral Society

A Multi--Criteria Decision approach for the sustainable dairy farm management

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