Investigators
Harold A. Mooney - Stanford University
Rosamond L. Naylor - Stanford University
Walter P. Falcon - Stanford University
Marshall Burke - Stanford University
Henning Steinfeld - Director at Livestock, Environment, and Development Initiative (FAO)
Jim Galloway - Professor at University of Virginia

Explosive growth in the global demand for meat has helped precipitate rapid changes in how that meat is produced. Livestock production operations are growing in intensity and scale, changing their location as a function of population growth and environmental regulation, and increasingly sourcing their inputs (such as feed) and sending their finished products abroad. This changing nature of production has important implications for environmental resources, implications which are often hidden by the complex nature of global trade. This project seeks to identify the web of effects that industrialized livestock has on global environmental resources, with particular attention paid to water, nitrogen, and land.