global vet- food systems and health

what are some changes in livestock food systems

• animals are becoming sedentery

• they are fed feed and forage that is collected by machinery

• nutrition and housing are designed to enhance livestock production

• some systme sare homogenous

• feed travel long distnace

• animal source proteins have global markets

• systems are influenced by global capital flows

• corporate concetration seen in some livestock sectors

• systems are dependent on fossil fuels

what are food systems shaped through

• governance,regulatory frameworks, policices

• tchnology, research dev

• social orgnisations

• biophysical environment

• people demand, trade, markets, finance system

challenges of food system

• malnutirtion

• emissions

• water use

• food security

• disease threats

• ethical concnern

pig system

Purpose

• Breeding (gilts, sows, dry sows, farrowing sows, boar)

• Rearing (weaners, rearing pigs, growers, fatteners)

what are some problems

• high production costs

• low marketprices

• mismatch between supply an demand, poor market and value chainstability

• shortage of workers

• bottleneck in abattoirs and procesing plants