Afropolitan Space Invading between Neoliberalization and Africanization

Die Dissertation Afropolitan Space Invading between Neoliberalization and Africanization untersucht, wie afropolitische Räume durch Rauminvasoren (sog. „space invaders“) in Romanen erkundet werden. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass afropolitische Romane den von Taiye Selasi 2005 initiierten Afropolitanismus stets zwischen den Polen der Neoliberalisierung und der Afrikanisierung verorten, wird die These vorgestellt, dass AutorInnen wie Teju Cole, Dinaw Mengestu, Chika Unigwe und Sefi Atta in ihren nach 2005 erschienenen Romanen durch Rauminvasionen („space invading“) eine produktive Friktion generieren, durch die einem Afropolitan turn innerhalb des kosmopolitischen Diskurses mithilfe von Literatur eine Form gegeben wird. Die Romane handeln diesen Denkansatz durchgehend räumlich aus. Coles Every Day is for the Thief bezieht sich auf die afropolitische Stadt, Mengestus The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears auf das afropolitische Zuhause, Unigwes On Black Sisters' Street auf die durch das Sensorium ausgehandelten afropolitischen Identitäten und Attas A Bit of Difference auf den Körper innerhalb des afropolitischen Arbeitsmarktes. Obgleich die Analyse die Schriftwerke von Cole, Mengestu, Unigwe und Atta als wichtigstes Fundament im „Afropolitan space invading“ einordnet, wird auch auf weitere Werke von Mbue, Farah, Adichie, Brew-Hammond und anderen AutorInnen Bezug genommen

Livestock to 2020: the next food revolution

A team of researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) collaborated to produce this comprehensive and even-handed attempt at defining the nature, extent, scope, and implications of what they term the "Livestock Revolution” in developing countries. Looking forward to 2020, they argue convincingly that the structural shifts in world agriculture being brought about by shifts in developing-country demand for foods of animal origin will continue and that increasingly global markets have the ability to supply both cereal and animal products in desired quantities without undue price rises. They emphasize, however, that policy decisions taken for the livestock sector of developing countries will determine whether the Livestock Revolution helps or harms the world's poor and malnourished. The report emphasizes the importance of continued investment in both research on and development of animal and feed grain production and processing, and the need for policy action to help small, poor livestock producers become better integrated with commercial livestock marketing and processing. It details a host of requirements in the area of technology development for production and processing of livestock products, potential benefits from new technologies, and critical policy issues for environmental conservation and protection of public health.Environmental protection., Public health, Livestock., Markets., Animal products, Developing countries,

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas and Ammonia Emissions from Swine Manure Management : A System Analysis

PMID: 28318241. We thank all our colleagues for their recommendations and support during this extensive study. Funding for the study was provided by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB417104), the Non-Profit Research Foundation for Agriculture (201303091), China Agriculture Research System (CARS-36), and UK-China Virtual Joint Centres on Nitrogen “N-Circle” and “CINAg” funded by the Newton Fund via UK BBSRC/NERC (BB/N013484/1 and BB/N013468/1, respectively).Peer reviewedPostprintPostprintPostprin

The growing place of livestock products in world food in the twenty-first century

This paper attempts to define the nature, extent, scope, and implications of what the authors term the “Livestock Revolution” in developing countries. Looking forward to 2020, they argue that the structural shifts in world agriculture being brought about by shifts in developing-country demand for foods of animal origin will continue and that increasingly global markets have the ability to supply both cereal and animal products in desired quantities with out undue price rises. They emphasize, however, that policy decisions taken for the live stock sector of developing countries will determine whether the Livestock Revolution helps or harms the world's poor and malnourished. (from Foreward by Per Pinstrup-Andersen)Livestock. ,Poor Developing countries. ,Malnutrition. ,Meat industry and trade. ,

Sustainable Diets: another hurdle or a better food future?,

The notion of sustainable diets has emerged forcibly onto the food policy agenda in recent years, but has also met resistance. The article reviews the case for sustainable diets. It counterbalances the current dominant policy emphasis on raising food output as the best route to a sustainable food future. The article suggests that a process of democratic experimentation is underway. Some official guidelines have emerged alongside a mix of civil society and academic formulations. More coherence of data, principles and purpose is needed at the global and regional policy-making levels for these to become effective in the common task of reducing the food system’s negative impact on health, environment and economies

The Role of Livestock Production in Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

This review looks at the role of the livestock sector in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles from a global perspective and considers impacts at the various stages of the commodity chain. With regard to livestock, N and C cycles are closely connected to livestock's role in land use and land-use change. Livestock's land use includes grazing land and cropland dedicated to the production of feed crops and fodder. Considering emissions along the entire commodity chain, livestock currently contribute about 18% to the global warming effect. Livestock contribute about 9% of total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but 37% of methane (CH4), and 65% of nitrous oxide (N2O). The latter will substantially increase over the coming decades, as the pasture land is currently at maximum expanse in most regions; future expansion of the livestock sector will increasingly be crop based. The chapter also reviews mitigation options to reduce C and N emissions from livestock's land use, production, and animal waste.JRC.G.3-Agricultur