Livestock – Worldmapper

Pastures

Worldmapper — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:00:37 +0000

This map shows the land surface resized by its amount of pasture. Each transformed grid cell in the map is proportional to the total area used as pasture land (land used to support grazing animals).

Data sources
This map uses estimates for the year 2000 based on the Pastures, v1 dataset at 0.008333 degree resolution, published in 2010 by SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center).
References:
Ramankutty, N., A.T. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J.A. Foley. 2010. Global Agricultural Lands: Pastures, 2000. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H47H1GGR. Last accessed March 2020.

Chicken

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:41:32 +0000

Territory size is proportionate to the number of chicken there in 2016.

Data sources
This map uses data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (last accessed March 2018). (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Goats

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:47:29 +0000

Territory size is proportionate to the number of goats there in 2016.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Pigs

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:10:29 +0000

Most of the pigs – almost half of the total livestock - live in China, followed by the United States and Brazil. For Europe Spain and Germany are taking the lead, Nigeria on place 22 is the first African country in this ranking. Disappearing on this map are all Islamic countries of the Middle East and Northern Africa where pigs are considered ‘unclean' and pork meat is not consumed for religious reasons. Due to an increase in global demand for meat the total numbers are constantly rising, mostly in Asia and Africa, while pig numbers in Europe or North America grow slower or even stagnate. Not just numbers, also the way of pig husbandry has changed, to a very industrialised, meat production centred way of farming. Only few traditional forms of pig husbandry have survived in the industrialised world, such as organic pig farming, mostly linked to local markets. Not so in the developing countries, where half of the pigs still lives in small-scale subsistence-driven production systems. Here the omnivorous pigs are much more that just a source of meat, they are also a recipient of feed, that otherwise would go to waste.

Sheep

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:14:33 +0000

Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated, and they are raised all over the world. They are ruminants, so they need spacious areas and are not useful for industrial agriculture. Sheep are herbivores, they typically eat seeds, grass and plants. Most some sheep don’t need much water, a fact that makes them a perfect livestock for the scarce regions of the world. In Western countries they are most used for their meat and more recently also for their milk, while sheep wool plays a less important role in industrialised countries. While China leads the list of countries with sheep, the map shows a high proportion of sheep living in Australia, New Zealand and the whole African Continent. In Europe most of the sheep are living in the United Kingdom, followed by Turkey and Spain.

Turkeys

tina-gotthardt — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:13:03 +0000

Territory size is proportional to the number of turkeys living there in 2016.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Pigeons

tina-gotthardt — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:12:54 +0000

Territory size is proportionate to the number of pigeons there in 2016.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

BSE cases 1987-2016

tina-gotthardt — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:02:54 +0000

BSE is a neurologic disease that affects the brain structure of infected cattle. It is caused by proteins called prions, which cause animals to lose motor skills, develop coordination problems, lose weight, and experience decreased milk production and behaviour changes, hence the name 'mad cow disease'. There is no vaccine against BSE and no treatment once an animal is infected. Once symptoms develop, its condition deteriorates until it is euthanised or dies from the disease. The first confirmed case of BSE was diagnosed in the UK in 1987 and this is also the country with the most cases until now, over 180 000. The first case outside of the UK was recorded in 1989 in Ireland and it the spread over Europe. Other countries highly affected were Portugal, France, Spain and Germany. Outside of Europe the disease was reported in Canada, USA, Brazil and Japan. The most recent case was just (October 2018) confirmed in Scotland. Humans can’t get mad cow disease, it can only occur in cattle. They can, however, develop a related infection—called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)—by eating contaminated meat. The most well-known outbreak of vCJD occurred in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s.