10.7910/DVN/CDVOJ1 Paul, Birthe Birthe Paul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5994-5354 International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus Klaus Butterbach-Bahl https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-6598 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Notenbaert, An An Notenbaert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-2240 International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT Nduah, Alex Nderi Alex Nderi Nduah International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT Ericksen, Polly Polly Ericksen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-7691 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Harvard Dataverse 2020 Earth and Environmental Sciences Agricultural Sciences livestock production systems low emission livestock environmental impact low and middle income countries sustainable development Crops for Nutrition and Health Africa The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Alliance Data Management The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT 2020-10-01 2020-10-06 2023-03-09 2019-07-22/2019-11-15 meta data;Survey Data 785 246 4122 585 35127 4393 6181 871 21435 text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/csv text/csv text/tab-separated-values application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 1.1 Custom terms specific to this dataset This dataset consists of two types of data that were used in the analysis for the perspective paper ‘Sustainable livestock development in low and middle income countries – shedding light on evidence-based solutions’: i) a sub-set of results of a systematic literature search in the Web of Science to take stock of the global distribution of research on livestock and the environment; ii) responses to four questions of an expert survey conducted among 260 respondents to explore global perceptions of environmental impacts of livestock and available solutions. Nairobi, Kenya