Africa: Livestock - Cure or Curse?

24 May 2012
analysis

Lambasted for their voluminous greenhouse gas emissions, implicated in massive land degradation, and denounced for driving deforestation, livestock are supposedly the bad kids on the block - the black sheep of sustainable agriculture.

In short, the sacred cow has long left the building; to misquote Orwell, it's definitely now a case of "four-legs-bad".

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