Agriculture currently accounts for about 12 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, in part from methane from animals released into the environment. (Image source: Lenka Pumanov/sxc.hu)

Livestock bred on a high-calorie diet are more climate-friendly and more profitable to farmers, a new Austrian study has found

Imported beef is currently subject to a 38.5 per cent tariff. (Image source: Humusak2/sxc.hu)

Japan has announced that its beef exports reached 909 tonnes in 2013, up 5.3 per cent from 2012, according to Ministry of Finance

Production in livestock sub-sector rose 1.75 per cent in 2013. (Image source: Bev Lloyd Roberts/scx.hu)

The Philippines’ department of agriculture (DA) has said that the country’s farm sector will grow at three per cent this year due to sustained good performance in the livestock, poultry and fisheries sector

Beef imports in the first 10 months of 2013 totaled 253,196 tonnes. (Image source: Koos Schwaneberg/sxc.hu)

China may double beef imports by 2018 as consumers are expected to indulge more in ‘safer and healthier’ products, according to a report