List of works - Mario Herrero

A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize–cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part II—Emulating the farming system

A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize–cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part I—Integrating biological and socio-economic models into a holistic system

article

A Typology of Food Environments in the Pacific Region and Their Relationship to Diet Quality in Solomon Islands

scientific article published in 2021

A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

scientific article

A method for evaluating climate change adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers using survey, experimental and modeled data

scholarly article by Lieven Claessens et al published September 2012 in Agricultural Systems

Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya: household strategies and determinants

scientific article

Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa

article

Adapting to climate change: Agricultural system and household impacts in East Africa

article

Agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions: trade-offs or synergies between mitigation and food security?

Agriculture. Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies.

scientific article published in July 2013

Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Assessing the land resource-food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals.

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems

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Beyond milk, meat, and eggs: Role of livestock in food and nutrition security

article

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

scientific article published on December 2013

Brief history of agricultural systems modeling

scientific article

Can agriculture support climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and rural livelihoods? insights from Kenya

scholarly article by Elizabeth Bryan et al published 5 December 2012 in Climatic Change

Carbon sequestration and farm income in West Africa: Identifying best management practices for smallholder agricultural systems in northern Ghana

article

Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation

scientific article

Challenges and opportunities for improving eco-efficiency of tropical forage-based systems to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change

scholarly article by Joost M. Vervoort et al published September 2014 in Global Environmental Change

Climate Change Impacts on Selected Global Rangeland Ecosystem Services

scientific article

Climate change adaptation in mixed crop–livestock systems in developing countries

scholarly article by Philip K. Thornton & Mario Herrero published July 2014 in Global food security

Climate change and pastoralism: impacts, consequences and adaptation.

scientific article

Climate change induced transformations of agricultural systems: insights from a global model

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Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

scientific article

Climate change perception and adaptation of agro-pastoral communities in Kenya

scholarly article by Silvia Silvestri et al published 4 March 2012 in Regional Environmental Change

Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review ⬇️

scientific article

Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Closing system-wide yield gaps to increase food production and mitigate GHGs among mixed crop–livestock smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Closing yield gaps in smallholder goat production systems in Ethiopia and India

scholarly article by Dianne Mayberry et al published August 2018 in Livestock Science

Combining livestock production information in a process based vegetation model to reconstruct the history of grassland management

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Combining livestock production information in a process-based vegetation model to reconstruct the history of grassland management

scientific article published in 2016

Community-based interventions for the use and conservation of animal genetic resources: the case of indigenous scavenger chicken production in Benin

scientific article published on 19 February 2011

Comparison of models for describing the lactation curve of latxa sheep and an analysis of factors affecting milk yield.

scientific article

Coping Strategies in Livestock-dependent Households in East and Southern Africa: A Synthesis of Four Case Studies

article

Corrigendum to “Targeting, out-scaling and prioritising climate-smart interventions in agricultural systems: Lessons from applying a generic framework to the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa” [Agric. Syst. 2017 Feb; 151: 153–162]

scholarly article published in Agricultural Systems

Cost of meat

article published in 2011

Crop Productivity and the Global Livestock Sector: Implications for Land Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

article by P. Havlik et al published 6 December 2012 in American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Decoupling Livestock from Land Use through Industrial Feed Production Pathways

article

Defining a land boundary for sustainable livestock consumption

Derivation of a household-level vulnerability index for empirically testing measures of adaptive capacity and vulnerability

article published in 2012

Dielectric 5-branes and giant gravitons in ABJM

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 no. 8, August 2011

Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms.

scientific article

Economic values for production and functional traits in Holstein cattle of Costa Rica

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Ecoregional Research for Development

Effect of climate change, CO2 trends, nitrogen addition, and land-cover and management intensity changes on the carbon balance of European grasslands

scientific article

Estimation of methane emissions from local and crossbreed beef cattle in Daklak province of Vietnam

scientific article

Ethical and economic implications of the adoption of novel plant-based beef substitutes in the USA: a general equilibrium modelling study

scientific article published in 2022

Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models

article

Farm household models to analyse food security in a changing climate: A review

article

Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis

scientific article published in April 2017

Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

scientific article published in The Lancet

Food wedges: Framing the global food demand and supply challenge towards 2050

Freshwater use in livestock production—To be used for food crops or livestock feed?

Gaps between fruit and vegetable production, demand, and recommended consumption at global and national levels: an integrated modelling study

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Global trends in grassland carrying capacity and relative stocking density of livestock

scientific article published on 23 March 2022

Grazing systems expansion and intensification: Drivers, dynamics, and trade-offs

article

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

article

Historical trade-offs of livestock’s environmental impacts

article published in 2015

Hotspots of gross emissions from the land use sector: patterns, uncertainties, and leading emission sources for the period 2000–2005 in the tropics

scientific article published in 2016

How much land-based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals?

scientific article

Identifying key entry-points for strategic management of smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa using the dynamic farm-scale simulation model NUANCES-FARMSIM

article

Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa

article

Implications of alternative metrics for global mitigation costs and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

article

Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security

article by Linda See et al published March 2015 in Global food security

Income growth and climate change effects on global nutrition security to mid-century

scientific article

Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands

Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

scientific article

Integrating crops and livestock in subtropical agricultural systems

scientific article

Integrating livestock feeds and production systems into agricultural multi-market models: The example of IMPACT

article

Intensification pathways for beef and dairy cattle production systems: Impacts on GHG emissions, land occupation and land use change

Interactions between intervention packages, climatic risk, climate change and food security in mixed crop–livestock systems in Burkina Faso

scholarly article by C. Rigolot et al published February 2017 in Agricultural Systems

Lifetime productivity of dairy cows in smallholder farming systems of the Central highlands of Kenya

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa

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Livelihood Choices and Returns Among Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Kenya

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Livelihoods and food security in an urban linked, high potential region of Tanzania: Changes over a three year period

scholarly article by Simon Fraval et al published February 2018 in Agricultural Systems

Livestock Water Use and Productivity in the Nile Basin

Livestock and global change: emerging issues for sustainable food systems

scientific article

Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting the numbers right

article published in 2011

Livestock and the Environment: What Have We Learned in the Past Decade?

article by Mario Herrero et al published 4 November 2015 in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Livestock in a changing climate: production system transitions as an adaptation strategy for agriculture

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Livestock policy for sustainable development

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Livestock wealth and social capital as insurance against climate risk: A case study of Samburu County in Kenya

scholarly article by Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a et al published July 2016 in Agricultural Systems

Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: understanding the trade-offs

Maasai perception of the impact and incidence of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) in southern Kenya

scientific article

Mapping child growth failure in Africa between 2000 and 2015.

scientific article published in February 2018

Mapping global cropland and field size

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Microbes and the Next Nitrogen Revolution

scientific article

Modeling extended lactations of dairy cows.

scientific article published in June 2000

Modelling the global economic consequences of a major African swine fever outbreak in China

scientific article published in 2020

Natural climate solutions.

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

New feed sources key to ambitious climate targets

scientific article

Opinion paper: The role of livestock in a sustainable diet: a land-use perspective

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Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

scientific article published in Nature

Pathways for sustainable development of mixed crop livestock systems: Taking a livestock and pro-poor approach

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Policies in support of pastoralism and biodiversity in the heterogeneous drylands of East Africa

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Potential for reduced methane and carbon dioxide emissions from livestock and pasture management in the tropics

scientific article

Prioritizing climate-smart livestock technologies in rural Tanzania: A minimum data approach

scholarly article by Kelvin M Shikuku et al published February 2017 in Agricultural Systems

Quantification of uncertainties in global grazing systems assessment

Re-framing the climate change debate in the livestock sector: mitigation and adaptation options

scholarly article by M.G. Rivera-Ferre et al published 25 July 2016 in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change

Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

scientific article

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?

Reducing uncertainty in nitrogen budgets for African livestock systems

Revisiting enteric methane emissions from domestic ruminants and their δ13CCH4 source signature

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Seasonality constraints to livestock grazing intensity

scientific article

Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems

scientific article

Spatially explicit estimates of N2 O emissions from croplands suggest climate mitigation opportunities from improved fertilizer management

scientific article

Structural change as a key component for agricultural non-CO2 mitigation efforts.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production

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Sustaining healthy diets in times of change: linking climate hazards, food systems and nutrition security in rural communities of the Fiji Islands

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Sustaining intensification of smallholder livestock systems in the tropics

Targeting, out-scaling and prioritising climate-smart interventions in agricultural systems: Lessons from applying a generic framework to the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

scientific article

The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

The Key Role of Production Efficiency Changes in Livestock Methane Emission Mitigation

scientific article published in 2021

The Need for Improved Maps of Global Cropland

article by Steffen Fritz et al published 15 January 2013 in Eos

The benefits and trade-offs of agricultural diversity for food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review of existing knowledge and evidence

The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming

scholarly article

The evolution and evaluation of dairy cattle models for predicting milk production: an agricultural model intercomparison and improvement project (AgMIP) for livestock

The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in developing countries: A review of what we know and what we need to know

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The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

The power and pain of market-based carbon policies: a global application to greenhouse gases from ruminant livestock production

The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030

scientific article published in 2023

Toward a new generation of agricultural system data, models, and knowledge products: State of agricultural systems science

scientific article

Towards a new generation of agricultural system data, models and knowledge products: Design and improvement

scientific article

Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Use of Visual Material for Eliciting Shepherds' Perceptions of Grassland in Highland Peru

scientific article published in 2007

Water Use in Global Livestock Production—Opportunities and Constraints for Increasing Water Productivity

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Yield gap analyses to estimate attainable bovine milk yields and evaluate options to increase production in Ethiopia and India.

scientific article

List of works by Mario Herrero

A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize–cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part II—Emulating the farming system

A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize–cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part I—Integrating biological and socio-economic models into a holistic system

A Typology of Food Environments in the Pacific Region and Their Relationship to Diet Quality in Solomon Islands

A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

A method for evaluating climate change adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers using survey, experimental and modeled data

Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya: household strategies and determinants

Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Adapting to climate change: Agricultural system and household impacts in East Africa

Agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions: trade-offs or synergies between mitigation and food security?

Agriculture. Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies.

Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

Assessing the land resource-food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems

Beyond milk, meat, and eggs: Role of livestock in food and nutrition security

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

Brief history of agricultural systems modeling

Can agriculture support climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and rural livelihoods? insights from Kenya

Carbon sequestration and farm income in West Africa: Identifying best management practices for smallholder agricultural systems in northern Ghana

Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation

Challenges and opportunities for improving eco-efficiency of tropical forage-based systems to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change

Climate Change Impacts on Selected Global Rangeland Ecosystem Services

Climate change adaptation in mixed crop–livestock systems in developing countries

Climate change and pastoralism: impacts, consequences and adaptation.

Climate change induced transformations of agricultural systems: insights from a global model

Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

Climate change perception and adaptation of agro-pastoral communities in Kenya

Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach

Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review ⬇️

Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

Closing system-wide yield gaps to increase food production and mitigate GHGs among mixed crop–livestock smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa

Closing yield gaps in smallholder goat production systems in Ethiopia and India

Combining livestock production information in a process based vegetation model to reconstruct the history of grassland management

Combining livestock production information in a process-based vegetation model to reconstruct the history of grassland management

Community-based interventions for the use and conservation of animal genetic resources: the case of indigenous scavenger chicken production in Benin

Comparison of models for describing the lactation curve of latxa sheep and an analysis of factors affecting milk yield.

Coping Strategies in Livestock-dependent Households in East and Southern Africa: A Synthesis of Four Case Studies

Corrigendum to “Targeting, out-scaling and prioritising climate-smart interventions in agricultural systems: Lessons from applying a generic framework to the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa” [Agric. Syst. 2017 Feb; 151: 153–162]

Cost of meat

Crop Productivity and the Global Livestock Sector: Implications for Land Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Decoupling Livestock from Land Use through Industrial Feed Production Pathways

Defining a land boundary for sustainable livestock consumption

Derivation of a household-level vulnerability index for empirically testing measures of adaptive capacity and vulnerability

Dielectric 5-branes and giant gravitons in ABJM

Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms.

Economic values for production and functional traits in Holstein cattle of Costa Rica

Ecoregional Research for Development

Effect of climate change, CO2 trends, nitrogen addition, and land-cover and management intensity changes on the carbon balance of European grasslands

Estimation of methane emissions from local and crossbreed beef cattle in Daklak province of Vietnam

Ethical and economic implications of the adoption of novel plant-based beef substitutes in the USA: a general equilibrium modelling study

Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models

Farm household models to analyse food security in a changing climate: A review

Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis

Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Food wedges: Framing the global food demand and supply challenge towards 2050

Freshwater use in livestock production—To be used for food crops or livestock feed?

Gaps between fruit and vegetable production, demand, and recommended consumption at global and national levels: an integrated modelling study

Global trends in grassland carrying capacity and relative stocking density of livestock

Grazing systems expansion and intensification: Drivers, dynamics, and trade-offs

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

Historical trade-offs of livestock’s environmental impacts

Hotspots of gross emissions from the land use sector: patterns, uncertainties, and leading emission sources for the period 2000–2005 in the tropics

How much land-based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals?

Identifying key entry-points for strategic management of smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa using the dynamic farm-scale simulation model NUANCES-FARMSIM

Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa

Implications of alternative metrics for global mitigation costs and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security

Income growth and climate change effects on global nutrition security to mid-century

Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands

Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

Integrating crops and livestock in subtropical agricultural systems

Integrating livestock feeds and production systems into agricultural multi-market models: The example of IMPACT

Intensification pathways for beef and dairy cattle production systems: Impacts on GHG emissions, land occupation and land use change

Interactions between intervention packages, climatic risk, climate change and food security in mixed crop–livestock systems in Burkina Faso

Lifetime productivity of dairy cows in smallholder farming systems of the Central highlands of Kenya