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Tom Wassenaar
Researcher at Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen
Publications - 54
Citations - 6506
Tom Wassenaar is an academic researcher from Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Livestock & Greenhouse gas. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 50 publications receiving 6138 citations. Previous affiliations of Tom Wassenaar include Food and Agriculture Organization & Institut national de la recherche agronomique.
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Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation, and suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
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Livestock production systems in developing countries: status, drivers, trends.
TL;DR: The current status of livestock production systems, the drivers of global livestock production, and the major trends in such production are described and assessed, and how these trends link to food safety is discussed.
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Projecting land use changes in the Neotropics: the geography of pasture expansion into forest
Tom Wassenaar,Pierre J. Gerber,Peter H. Verburg,Mauricio Rosales,M. Ibrahim,Henning Steinfeld +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a land use change-modeling framework was used to make a projection of potential land use changes for the year 2010 in tropical Latin America, where pasture land for extensive grazing continues to expand, mostly at the expense of forest cover.
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International trade in meat: The tip of the pork chop
James N. Galloway,Marshall Burke,G. Eric Bradford,Rosamond L. Naylor,Walter P. Falcon,Ashok Chapagain,Joanne Gaskell,Ellen B. McCullough,Harold A. Mooney,Kirsten L.L. Oleson,Henning Steinfeld,Tom Wassenaar,Vaclav Smil +12 more
TL;DR: An original account of global land, water, and nitrogen use in support of industrialized livestock production and trade, with emphasis on two of the fastest-growing sectors, pork and poultry, is provided.