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Approved in principle at the SCOPE Open Executive Committee Meeting in June 2003, the CIAP project is in the early phase of development. The project will aim to evaluate the consequences of the rapid transition in animal production systems, viewing the issues in both a regional and a global context. There are very significant problems related to industrialised animal production systems that have not been examined in an integrated manner although there is increasing attention to individual issues. The issues include addressing the large amounts of concentrated animal wastes that disrupt ecosystem processes causing human health and environmental problems; in addition, high use of antibiotics in production, large amounts of grain that are transported great distances and utilised for animal production. In addition there are increasing concerns about related issues such as animal health and welfare, community health, environmental justice, and biosecurity.
This effort will seek to evaluate the complex global and local dimensions of industrialised animal production systems with the goal of reducing the negative impacts on environmental and social systems and to inform decision makers as to implications of choices and consequences of various development scenarios. Important to the process will be the effort to target issues that need new approaches and to highlight best practices in animal production. The project will consider the social, economic and cultural contexts and framework conditions for the development of industrial production including the transformation of consumption patterns in a global market.
The scope of the project will include poultry, swine, and beef feedlot, dairy operations and aquaculture with a consideration of the impacts on terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine ecosystems and including global and local source-sink relationships, including fishmeal as food, and nitrogen deposition.
Harold Mooney (hmooney(at)stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA
Laurie Neville (lneville(at)stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA
Erik Bradford, James Galloway, Harold Mooney (chair), Laurie Neville, Henning Steinfeld, Kendall Thu, David Wallinga.
There will be both scientific and popular publications in addition to reports from regional thematic workshops.
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