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
The regulation was signed by Premier Li Keqiang and would come into force on 1 January 2014. (Image source: ah beng tan/Flickr)
China will regulate breeding and raising of poultry and livestock in a move to bring down pollution levels in the countryside, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Ministry of Agriculture
