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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Mapping the global distribution of livestock
PLoS ONE, Volume 9, No. 5, Article e96084, Year 2014
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Livestock contributes directly to the livelihoods and food security of almost a billion people and affects the diet and health of many more. With estimated standing populations of 1.43 billion cattle, 1.87 billion sheep and goats, 0.98 billion pigs, and 19.60 billion chickens, reliable and accessible information on the distribution and abundance of livestock is needed for a many reasons. These include analyses of the social and economic aspects of the livestock sector; the environmental impacts of livestock such as the production and management of waste, greenhouse gas emissions and livestock-related land-use change; and large-scale public health and epidemiological investigations. The Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW) database, produced in 2007, provided modelled livestock densities of the world, adjusted to match official (FAOSTAT) national estimates for the reference year 2005, at a spatial resolution of 3 minutes of arc (about 565 km at the equator). Recent methodological improvements have significantly enhanced these distributions: more up-to date and detailed subnational livestock statistics have been collected; a new, higher resolution set of predictor variables is used; and the analytical procedure has been revised and extended to include a more systematic assessment of model accuracy and the representation of uncertainties associated with the predictions. This paper describes the current approach in detail and presents new global distribution maps at 1 km resolution for cattle, pigs and chickens, and a partial distribution map for ducks. These digital layers are made publically available via the Livestock Geo-Wiki (http://www.livestock.geo-wiki.org), as will be the maps of other livestock types as they are produced. © 2014 Robinson et al.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Robinson, Timothy P.
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
Italy, Rome
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
William Wint, G. R.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Conchedda, Giulia
Italy, Rome
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
van Boeckel, Thomas P.
Belgium, Brussels
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Belgium, Brussels
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - Fnrs
United States, Princeton
Princeton University
Ercoli, Valentina
Italy, Rome
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Palamara, Elisa
Italy, Rome
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Cinardi, Giuseppina
Italy, Rome
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
D'Aietti, Laura
Italy, Rome
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Hay, Simon I.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
United States, Bethesda
National Institutes of Health Nih
Gilbert, Marius
Belgium, Brussels
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Belgium, Brussels
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - Fnrs
Statistics
Citations: 693
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0096084
e-ISSN:
19326203
Research Areas
Food Security