Olivia Florence Godber

• PhD Sustainable Livestock Development; MSc Meat Science & Technology; BSc (Hons) Animal Science
• Research Associate at Cornell University

Livestock production is an important contributor to sustainable food security for many nations, particularly in low income areas and marginal habitats that are unsuitable for crop production. Animal products account for approximately one third of global human protein consumption. Here a range of indicators, derived from FAOSTAT and World Bank stati...

Goats are important contributors to both food and financial security of the resource poor, particularly in marginal environments such as those in the Mediterranean region. To fully understand the feasibility and potential consequences of any intensification or husbandry changes that could contribute to higher outputs, it is important to have a thor...

In many Mediterranean countries, particularly those with substantive areas of marginal habitat that is unsuitable for crop production, small ruminant husbandry, especially goat production, is an important contributor to the national economy, rural livelihood and food security. In this study, the vulnerability of goat production in the Mediterranean...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock production must be urgently tackled to substantially reduce their contribution to global warming. Simply reducing livestock numbers to this end risks impacting negatively on food security, rural livelihoods and climate change adaptation. We argue that significant mitigation of livestock emissions can be...

New York (NY) state is one of five states that collectively produce >50% of the annual milk supply within the United States. The local environment allows farmers to integrate crop and livestock systems, facilitating cycling of manure nutrients back to cropland. Thus, dairy provides NY with benefits, opportunities, and challenges in terms of environ...

Decision‐support tools (DSTs) are increasingly used to collect, manage, and/or analyze growing amounts of data generated on farms. The whole‐farm nutrient mass balance (NMB) is an assessment with an associated DST (the Cornell NMB calculator) that measures farm nutrient management efficiency. Our main objectives were to (1) develop and implement a...

Efficient management of N and P on dairy farms is critical for farm profitability and environmental stewardship. Annual farm-gate nutrient mass balance (NMB) assessments can be used to determine the nutrient-use efficiency of farms, set efficiency targets, and monitor the effect of management changes with minimal inputs required. In New York, feasi...

The overall aim of this project was to develop a roadmap indicating how the production of insect protein for animal feed can be scaled up, taking into consideration the environmental, legal, market and operational constraints. The research outlined in this report was undertaken by ADAS and Michelmores on behalf of WWF and Tesco. The research provi...

Context Strategies for achieving greater ruminant livestock productivity are essential to meet the food demands of growing populations, but sustainable changes are difficult to identify given the inherent complexity of such systems. Systems models can address this issue by allowing the impact of potential changes to be explored. Aims To develop a...

Livestock production is an important contributor to sustainable food security for many nations, particularly in low income areas and marginal habitats that are unsuitable for crop production. Vulnerability analysis has been widely used in global change science to predict impacts on food security and famine. It is a particularly useful tool for pred...

Goat production is an important contributor to the national economy, rural livelihood and food security in many Mediterranean countries, particularly within marginal habitats that are unsuitable for crop production. Here, the vulnerability of the goat sector in the Mediterranean region is modeled using vulnerability analysis, to predict the effects...

Information on the nations included in the analysis of vulnerability to human population growth and climate change on livestock-based food production. Table S2. Rank and score of nations for the sensitivity element of the vulnerability index of livestock-based food production scaled from zero to one. Bold indicates upper tenth percentile, italics i...

Nematode infections of sheep can have negative effects on welfare, productivity and economics of sheep production. Faecal egg counts (FECs) are the most common method for detecting infections due to their simplicity and feasibility for implementation into most flock management practices. Faecal egg counts are also the basis of faecal egg count redu...