Sustainable livestock, a pending issue in Mexico

Abstract

The central purpose of this study was to identify and group the problem of livestock production in environmental contamination and to identify the mitigation actions that have been proposed. It was divided into three parts a) introduction, where the global context of environmental pollution and global warming attributed to livestock is expressed; b) discussion, where the problems of environmental pollution attributed to livestock and the main alternatives identified to environmental pollution attributed to livestock are exposed in summary form and c) conclusions, where it is stated that although there are technical and political alternatives that can be adopted to the livestock practice, there are no public and private actions to mitigate the adverse effects on the environment caused by livestock. The methodological basis of analysis was followed with a focus on the identification of problems, to build the analytical categories that allow understanding the participation in the mitigation of livestock ecological problems, based on the review of the contributions on the matter worldwide and national; the contributions that have been made on the subject were examined and added to the actions and proposals to mitigate the effects of livestock on the environment