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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Livestock Production"”.
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Annual forage cropping-systems for midwestern ruminant livestock production
… forage cropping systems are a vital aspect of livestock forage production. One area where this production system can be enhanced is the integration of novel annual forages into conventional cropping systems. Two separate projects were conducted to investigate alternative forage options in …
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Strategies for sustainable livestock production in Brazil and the European Union
Livestock provide as much as one-third of all protein consumed by humans, but have a disproportionate and growing environmental impact. Livestock production occupies 50-75% of agricultural land, contributes 15% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and drives agricultural expansion in the …
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Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from agriculture and approaches to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production
… abatement from agriculture, in particular from livestock production. The aims of the work were to: quantify GHG emissions from litter-based farmyard manures; evaluate means by which GHG emissions from agricultural production may be abated; assess synergies and conflicts between the abatement of …
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Livestock production and animal health management systems in communal farming areas at the wildlife-livestock interface in southern Africa
… practical and sustainable solutions for wildlife‐livestock integration in the conservation landscape. Due to the presence of buffalo Syncerus caffer in most of the TFCAs in southern Africa, foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) has to be controlled in susceptible livestock species sharing the rangelands …
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Development and fabricatin of production mechanism for small and medium animal feed production plant
Livestock production levels are currently unable to meet market demand. This is because the method used to produce livestock feeds is unproductive and efficient, beside lack of technology to process livestock feed. Therefore, some improvements should be made to ensure the sustainability, speed, and …
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IN VITRO AND OMICS METHODOLOGIES APPLIED TO ANIMAL NUTRITION TO ADDRESS FEED-FOOD COMPETITION AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
… security and sustainability of agriculture and livestock production. Meanwhile, the use of food-competing feedstuffs and the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock are two major issues that challenge the global feed and food supply chain. Here, we applied several in vitro and omics …
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Actividad y estructuras pecuarias en la Comunidad de Albarracín (1284-1516)
… territories' importance. The study analyses the livestock industry through the autonomous rules, the agreements reached between the town and their villages and the pastoral institutions - specially the evolution of the Mesta of Albarracín. It also includes the analyses of different ways of …
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Evaluation Research and Agricultural Development: A Tunisian Case Study
… was to retrospectively evaluate the Integrated Livestock Project in Tunisia. The central question asked was: what has been the effectiveness of the Project in line with its chief goal, namely an increase in the rate of livestock production. Project-derived data are supplemented by the summer …
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Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
… trade-offs between landscape diversity and crop production, between grassland quality and livestock production, and between net primary productivity (NPP, a measure of the energy that enters ecosystems) and urbanization. After reviewing trade-off analyses of ecosystem services for sustainable …
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Perceptions, understandings, and behaviours along the pork food chain relating to antimicrobial resistance in the UK
… modern medicines. The use of antimicrobials in livestock production is of increasing concern as usage has been linked to the emergence of resistant bacteria in humans. The UK pig industry is of particular concern due to its intensive nature, using more antimicrobials than other livestock …
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Socio-economic transformation among traditional cattle keepers in Kafue flood plain in Namwala District, Zambia
… cattle keepers with respect to shifts in production goals,introduction of livestock markets, coping strategies and government interventions in the promotion of livestock sector. Questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents(cattle keepers) and interview schedules for key …
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The role of soil clays and clay-humic complexes in processes controlling colloidal stability and the sorption and degradation of tetracyclines
… human medicine and are also used extensively in livestock production. Chlortetracycline and tetracycline are routinely used for growth promoting and therapeutic purposes in livestock production. To elucidate the environmental fate of these pharmaceuticals, sorption isotherms were obtained using …
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Biomass yield and nutritive value of Stylosanthes scabra accessions as forage source for Goats
… of quality feed is the major constraint in livestock production, particularly under smallholder subsistence farmer s conditions in sub-Saharan Africa. Livestock production under smallholder subsistence farmers depends predominantly on communal grazed natural pastures, which are often …
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Land use analysis for agroforestry research and development: a case study for Luwero district in Uganda
… are identified constraints. The banana-coffee production system is organized on a subsistance level with crop production carried out ungentle slopes, in home gardens and in plots on the outer edges of the homegardens; cooking bananas are the main staple. Cash crops (cotton and coffee) are …
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Optimising the trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Neotropics
… wider environment in the 21st century. Balancing livestock production and environmental concerns is of particular importance: rangelands cover approximately one quarter of the world’s ice-free land and livestock consume over one third of all calories from crops. In addition, livestock, …
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What’s at Steak? The Political Discourse of Emissions Intensity and Implications of Animal Agriculture
… of greenhouse gas emissions in relation to livestock production. Specific government ministries, research institutes, and multilateral organizations are framing a new strategy to mitigate emissions by using emissions intensity metrics. Emissions intensity is a ratio comparing emissions …
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Sustainable management of semi-arid African savannas under environmental and political change
… dynamics under conditions of extensive livestock production. Moreover, the influence of external forces, i.e. environmental change and land reform, on the use of savanna vegetation and on the ecosystem response to this land use is assessed. Based on this I identify conditions and …
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Women and land: acces to and use of land and natural resources in the communal areas of rural South Africa
… resources associated with land, for example livestock production, crop production, and natural resource harvesting is often overlooked as an important asset of poor rural communities. The importance of these landbased livelihoods sources is even greater for female-headed households, female …
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