Mapping the global distribution of livestock

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Institute
cg.contributor.crpIntegrated Systems for the Humid Tropics
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.creator.identifierTimothy Robinson: 0000-0002-4266-963X
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096084
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn1932-6203
cg.issue5
cg.journalPLOS One
cg.numbere96084
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.ilriGEODATA
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCK
cg.volume9
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Timothy P.
dc.contributor.authorWint, G.R.W.
dc.contributor.authorConchedda, Giulia
dc.contributor.authorBoeckel, Thomas P. van
dc.contributor.authorErcoli, V.
dc.contributor.authorPalamara, E.
dc.contributor.authorCinardi, G.
dc.contributor.authorD'Aietti, L.
dc.contributor.authorHay, S.I.
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, M.
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-28T09:20:49Zen
dc.date.available2015-01-28T09:20:49Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/53942
dc.titleMapping the global distribution of livestocken
dcterms.abstractLivestock 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 5×5 km at the equator). Recent methodological improvements have significantly enhanced these distributions: more up-to date and detailed sub-national 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.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientists
dcterms.available2014-05-29
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRobinson, T.P., Wint, G.R.W., Conchedda, G., Boeckel, T.P. Van, Ercoli, V., Palamara, E., Cinardi, G., D’Aietti, L., Hay, S.I. and Gilbert, M. 2014. Mapping the global distribution of livestock. PLOS ONE 9(5): e96084.en
dcterms.issued2014-05-29
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Science
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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