Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Livestock for Sustainable Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Livestock is responsible for 15% of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, thus influencing the global warming of our planet greatly. Due to population growth, future projections expect animal production to increase as a response to the growing human demand for animal products. To meet this demand, a greater impact in terms of the consumption of natural resources, gas emissions, energy requirements, feed production, and intensive land use is predicted. Reducing the GHG emissions derived from human activities is a high priority worldwide. The transmission to a “climate neutral”, greener, and more sustainable livestock production process is necessary to provide mitigating strategies, measures, and policies for eliminating GHG emissions and inhibiting global warming. Therefore, mitigating GHG emissions from the livestock sector is crucial and of the utmost importance for promoting sustainable livestock. This Special Issue aims to present original research and reviews regarding the practices, measures, strategies, applications, or policies that may mitigate GHG emissions from the livestock sector, further promoting sustainable agriculture. The issue welcomes contributions focusing on recent advances in the livestock sector for mitigating GHG emissions, including (but not limited to) husbandry practices, breeding strategies, genomic and proteomic research, genetic diversity, diet and grazing management, animal and husbandry monitoring, digital farming, waste and manure management, changes on farming systems, and circular economy-related issues. Contributions describing the elimination of GHG on integrated farming systems, mitigation scenarios, agroforestry management, dietary initiatives and changes, and policy interventions are also welcome.

Dr. George P. Laliotis
Dr. Vassilios Dotas
Guest Editors

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• livestock
• animal husbandry
• climate change
• greenhouse gas emissions
• mitigation strategies
• sustainable livestock
• production systems
• manure management
• diet management
• waste treatment
• cyclic economy
• methanogenesis
• handling practices
• environmental impact
• environmental policies.