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...

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...

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...

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...

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...