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2014
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01 November 2014
Hide and skin production around the world - leather, world leather Hide and skin production around the world
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The volume of hides and skins coming as a by-product from the global meat industry is enormous. Figures suggest the meat industry generates 240 million cattle hides a year...
01 September 2014
The value of livestock and animal protein in the fight against poverty and malnutrition - leather, world leather The value of livestock and animal protein in the fight against poverty and malnutrition
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Specialist UN agency the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has said 900 million people in extreme poverty live in rural areas and most of them rely on livestock...
01 July 2014
Nothing to Hide: Issues of deforestation - leather, world leather Nothing to Hide: Issues of deforestation
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Multi-stakeholders initiatives, private monitoring systems, research on low carbon livestock production, mitigation projects, have together shown that it is possible to produce meat (and consequently...
01 May 2014
Animal welfare and animals as valuable providers of consumer products - leather, world leather Animal welfare and animals as valuable providers of consumer products
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This essay explains the work animal welfare expert Dr Temple Grandin has done to help abattoirs in many parts of the world improve the way they work...
01 March 2014
Hides and skins: by-products of meat production - leather, world leather Hides and skins: by-products of meat production
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The global market for beef, and hence hides for leather production, is finely balanced. The supply is clearly based on the demand for beef, rather than the needs of the leather sector...

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