10.7910/DVN/CDVOJ1Paul, BirtheBirthePaul0000-0002-5994-5354International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIATButterbach-Bahl, KlausKlausButterbach-Bahl0000-0001-9499-6598International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Notenbaert, AnAnNotenbaert0000-0002-6266-2240International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIATNduah, Alex NderiAlex NderiNduahInternational Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIATEricksen, PollyPollyEricksen0000-0002-5775-7691International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Harvard Dataverse2020Agricultural SciencesEarth and Environmental Scienceslivestock production systemslow emission livestockenvironmental impactlow and middle income countriessustainable developmentCrops for Nutrition and HealthAfricaAlliance Data ManagementThe Alliance of Bioversity International and CIATThe Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT2020-10-012023-03-092019-07-22/2019-11-15meta data4393214353512724658587161817854122text/csvapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documenttext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/csvtext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-values1.1This 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