New insights in improving sustainability in meat production: opportunities and challenges

P Kumar, AA Abubakar, AK Verma… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Treating livestock as senseless production machines has led to rampant depletion of natural
resources, enhanced greenhouse gas emissions, gross animal welfare violations, and other …

Nutritionism in a food policy context: the case of 'animal protein'

F Leroy, T Beal, P Gregorini, GA McAuliffe… - Animal Production …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Reductionist approaches to food focus on isolated nutritional criteria, ignoring the broader
physiological and societal benefits and trade-offs involved. They can lead to the inadvertent …

Promising concepts to increase the competitiveness of the insect business in Central Europe

A Maroušková, E Cudlínová - Environment, Development and …, 2024 - Springer
Significant progress in Hermetia illucens (hereinafter BSF) rearing and refining over the last
2 decades has attracted attention of many investors all over the globe. In subtropical and …

Nutritive value and condensed tannins of tree legumes in silvopasture systems

IAG da Silva, JCB Dubeux Jr, CG Souza… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Introducing legumes into C4-dominated tropical pastures, may enhance their sustainability
but has some pasture management constraints. One potential alternative is using arboreal …

[HTML][HTML] Feed-food and land use competition of lowland and mountain dairy cow farms

SM Ineichen, J Zumwald, B Reidy, T Nemecek - animal, 2023 - Elsevier
Dairy cows and other ruminants contribute to human nutrition as they are able to convert
feed components containing human inedible fibre concentrations (eg roughage and by …

Pasture-finishing of cattle in Western US rangelands improves markers of animal metabolic health and nutritional compounds in beef

N Evans, J Cloward, RE Ward… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
As environmental and health concerns of beef production and consumption mount, there is
growing interest in agroecological production methods, including finishing beef cattle on …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of farm diversity on nitrogen and greenhouse gas emission sources from key European dairy cattle systems: A step towards emission mitigation and …

XD de Otálora, B Amon, L Balaine, F Dragoni… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT European dairy cattle production systems (DPS) are facing multiple challenges
that threaten their social, economic, and environmental sustainability. In this context, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Crossbred poultry adoption and impact: Evidence from Ethiopia

O Sariyev, M Zeller - Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2023 - Elsevier
Growing efforts to achieve improved family poultry signify the importance of adoption and
livelihood impact studies of crossbred poultry in Ethiopia. We employ the second panel …

Grazing for biodiversity: Assessing the effects of cattle management practices on wetlands and amphibian communities in central Argentina

MG Agostini, D Bilenca - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Argentina is widely recognized as a key player in the production and consumption of beef,
occupying a prominent position in the global context. However, there is a lack of …

System fertilization in the pasture phase enhances productivity in integrated crop–livestock systems

CM Freitas, JI Yasuoka, GC Pires, JP Gama… - The Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Different fertilization strategies can be adopted to optimize the productive components of an
integrated crop–livestock systems. The current research evaluated how the application of P …