Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
How Thirsty is Our Beef?
The global livestock sector currently consumes about 33% of global water withdrawals, primarily for irrigation of feed crops. To understand how the livestock sector can potentially mitigate the impacts of its water use, two factors are critical. First, there are different types of water resources available in the landscape and each have markedly different impacts on the social-ecological landscapes in which they are consumed. Second, increased use of crops for animal feed causes greater competition for water use between the production of feed for animals and food for humans.
Improving Manure Management at Smallholder Dairy Farms in Indonesia
As a response to a high demand for milk and low national milk supply, the Indonesian government aims to increase national milk production by, among others, increasing the dairy cattle population. This will have consequences especially for manure production. Manure is an inevitable by-product of dairy production and has a number of benefits if it is appropriately managed, but can also cause environmental impacts when high manure production is followed by improper manure management. To avoid these adverse environmental impacts, manure needs to be managed appropriately. Smallholder dairy farms in Indonesia, however, are currently characterized by poor manure management, and with the expected in...
Future Scenarios for More Circular Food Systems
The global food system has a substantial impact on the environment. One proposal to reduce the environmental impact of food systems is to transition towards more circular food systems. The aim of this PhD thesis was firstly, to create food system models capable of assessing the environmental implications of increased circularity in food systems, and secondly, to explore future scenarios to increase circularity in food systems and assess consequences in terms of production, consumption, and environmental impact. We started by assessing whether dietary guidelines proposing a limited intake of animal protein are compatible with the adoption of more circular food systems. Using a resource alloca...
Animal Manure
The majority of meat, milk, and eggs consumed in the United States are produced in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO). With concentrated animal operations, in turn comes concentrated manure accumulation, which can pose a threat of contamination of air, soil, and water if improperly managed. Animal Manure: Production, Characteristics, Environmental Concerns, and Management navigates these important environmental concerns while detailing opportunities for environmentally and economically beneficial utilization.
Sustainable Food Innovation
This text offers a holistic approach to the two topics of the highest interest in the current and future food industry: sustainability and nutrition. The current knowledge is narrow and specific to individual topics focusing on either one nutrient or one discipline. Food is part of a wide circle of disciplines: nutrition, technology, sensory, environmental aspects, psychology, economy, culture and society. In the recent years, the sales of innovative foods such as meatless burgers, allergen-free products and personalized nutrition have skyrocketed. Sustainable Food Innovation presents the big picture on each nutrient: industrial and natural sources (ingredients, food products), consumer acce...
Introduction and Application of Organic Fertilizers as Protectors of Our Environment
This book gives the latest information on advances in organic agriculture which can be used by agroindustry people as well as agricultural engineers and with practical examples for farmers. It provides important information covering multidisciplinary approaches on environmental awareness, organic agricultural production as well as organic fertilizers. The chapters here are prepared by experts in the field who present and discuss the principles of a wide range of practical ideas with examples. This book also presents novel ideas and suggestions for future research in organic agricultural production. The topics included in this book are based on surveys together with literature reviews to enable the academic and industrial readers to evaluate what they see as specific to their own discipline. The chapters include a wide range of topics which will also make it easy to make comparisons between different disciplines.
