Background literature
Contents
Farm sustainability evaluations
The IDEA method (Sustainability indicators of farms) [[1]]
Integrate sustainability indicators into French National Accountancy data (Jo Cadilhon) [[2]]
Website to look for French MSc and PhD theses using farming systems framework [[3]] Search for ‘système agraire’ and tick Paris Claude Bernard
Another interesting project/publication – RISE, a sustainability evaluation of farming systems. Very simple, only based on questionnaire and indicator scoring. Might give some ideas however. Something like that should be our first step [[4]]
REVALTER project on transitions for Vietnamese livestock.
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Papers by Santiago Lopez-Ridaura (now CIMMYT) on MIMESA framework File:Lopez-Ridaura_2002_EcolInd.pdf File:Lopez-Ridaura_2005_EnvDevSust.pdfFile:Lopez-Ridaura_2005_IntJSustDevWorldEcol.pdf
Integrated modeling appraoches
LUCIA: Land Use Change Impact Assessment
InVEST: Integrated Evaluation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs
Livestock and environmental impact - land, soils, GHG
FAO's latest report on tackling CC through livestock
FAO's LCAs File:GHGemissions_ruminant supply chain.pdf
File:Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Dairy.pdf
Rosenstock et al., 2003, Environmental Research Letters - SAMPLES File:rosenstock_protocol GHGs.pdf
FAO's ex-ante C-balance tool: [[8]]
Interesting report from WUR – with participation of Imke de Boer. Targeted towards Dutch dairy farms, but there might be lessons for us in it. [[9]]
Hristov, A.N., Oh, J., Lee, C., Meinen, R., Montes, F., Ott, T., Firkins, J., Rotz, A., Dell, C., Adesogan, A., Yang, W., Tricarico, J., Kebreab, E., Waghorn, G., Dijkstra, J. & Oosting, S. 2013. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production – A review of technical options for non-CO2emissions. Edited by Pierre J. Gerber, Benjamin Henderson and Harinder P.S. Makkar. FAO Animal Production and Health Paper No. 177. FAO, Rome, Italy. URL: [[10]]
Smith et al., 2013, World Bank Study
File:Smith_WB feed investment study.pdf
Typologies and livestock system classifications
Sere & Steinfeld, 1995, FAO File:FAO_WorldLivestockProdSyst.pdf
Solano & Herrero, 2000, Agricultural Systems File:Solano_2000_AgSyst.pdf
Baltenweck et al., 2003, SLP File:Transregional Analysis of Crop Livestock Systems.pdf
We have a Google-Docs where we keep lots of interesting reading material: