Overview

This book explores the critical intersection of contemporary livestock production and some of today’s most urgent challenges: the spread of emerging infectious diseases, the sustainability of food systems, and the contested promises of One Health. It provides insights that cut across disciplines and geographies, from both the social and the natural sciences, reflecting the interdisciplinary aspirations of One Health. Yet, in foregrounding especially cutting edge contributions from ecology and the social sciences, this book addresses the persistent knowledge gap from these fields, which have frequently been neglected in favor of the veterinary sciences. By including contributions from across these fields, the book broadens and critically deepen the conversation around One Health. The book is intended for a wide interdisciplinary audience of scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with livestock production, public health, and the future of food systems.

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""This groundbreaking and accessible book provides an intensive examination into how the global livestock industry has reconfigured threats to the health of people and the planet. It deftly bridges critical gaps in understanding by integrating diverse disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between meat production, disease emergence, and antimicrobial resistance. It is an essential read for academics, policy makers and advocates involved in transforming food systems to secure healthy futures for all."" A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development, Trent University, Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London “From poultry production in the Norwegian countryside to China's mega pig units in Argentina and the social movements emerging in response, this exciting collection brings together new empirical evidence, practical examples and conceptual tools to equip anyone, but especially multi and interdisciplinary university students, to understand urgent contemporary problems of global health, food systems and ecological sustainability, and organize to meet the challenges ahead.” Professor Melissa Leach, Executive Director, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), Honorary Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen is professor of Human Geography at the Centre for Global Sustainability. Her work focuses on agrarian change related to industrial agriculture and extractive industries in Latin America and Scandinavia. Jostein Jakobsen is a Researcher at the Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo. His research is based in economic geography and agrarian studies, with a longstanding research interest in India. He has published on topics such as the global food regime, authoritarian populism, and agricultural supply chains. Rebecca Leigh Rutt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. She contributes research and education inspired by feminist political ecology, justice perspectives, and by the pluriversal degrowth global movement.

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