Managing Healthy Livestock Production and Consumption
- 1st Edition - December 2, 2021
- Latest edition
- Editor: Nadia El-Hage Scialabba
- Language: English
Managing Healthy Livestock Production and Consumption is a highly interdisciplinary resource based on scientific and empirical evidence. It is illustrated with best practices o… Read more
Description
Description
Managing Healthy Livestock Production and Consumption
is a highly interdisciplinary resource based on scientific and empirical evidence. It is illustrated with best practices of low-input livestock systems from different continents and offers predictive modelling alternatives for a more resilient future. By addressing gaps of knowledge and presenting scientific perspective studies of livestock’s impact on the environment and the global food supply up to 2050, this book is useful for those advocating for sustainable food systems. Existing evidence of the effects of livestock production on food quality and nutrition is reviewed.Livestock production and consumption is a highly diverse topic where current publications only include/focus a single aspect of the issues, for example, greenhouse gas emissions or health impacts, leading to unilateral decisions such as refraining from meat consumption. However, animals are necessary to soil fertility and ecosystems balance and a more realistic resource is necessary for researchers, scientists, and policy makers. This book clarifies perceptions by presenting sound scientific evidence across livestock landscapes for the scientific community to better appreciate the ecological web of life and the social web of community related to livestock production.
An edited work written by globally diverse scientists and practitioners, including field workers, technicians, and policy makers, this is a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and development agents working in the area of sustainable livestock production and consumption of animal source foods. National, international organizations, policy makers, and donors interested in sustainable development of the livestock sector will also find the information here practical and applicable.
Key features
Key features
- Describes the public-health impacts of sustainable diets and livestock products
- Presents the impacts of livestock production on the environment and food supply
- Explores future scenarios (up to 2050) of low input livestock systems
- Includes current case studies of low input livestock systems that offer potential for scaling-up and replication for sustainable livestock futures
Readership
Readership
Researchers, teachers, students, development officials working in the area of sustainable livestock production and consumption of animal source foods; national, international organizations, policy makers and donors interested in sustainable development of the livestock sector. Organic and grass-fed livestock system training courses
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section 1 – Introduction
1. Introduction to livestock systems
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Section 2 – Animals and health
2. Livestock food and human nutrition
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3. Livestock xenobiotics and zoonoses
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4. Healthy livestock production and consumption
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5. Pesticide safety in livestock products
Andre Frederick Leu
6. Continuous development of animal welfare, with a focus on organic farming
Otto Schmid and Barbara Fruh
Section 3 - Livestock Landscapes
7. Livestock and future food supply
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8. Pastoralism as a response to climate change and water security in Mediterranean mountains and forests
Gregory Lazarev
9. Landscape management: ecological engineering in temperate areas
Joel Salatin
10. Let them graze! Potentials of ruminant production outside the feed-food competition Florian Leiber
11. The promises of food without soil and toil
Gunnar Rundgren
12. Livestock as a tool to regenerate land
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Section 4 – Stories from around the world
13. Experiences of low-external-input livestock systems
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Improving land management through grazing strategies
Subchapter 13.1: Rotational grazing in the Pampa, Argentina
Lorena Agnelli, Oyhamburu Mariel and Delgado Caffe Jorge
Subchapter 13.2: Holistic management of livestock, Zimbabwe
Andrea Malmberg and Jody Butterfield
Subchapter 13.3: Adapting to climate change in grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China
David Kemp
Subchapter 13.4: Organic livestock management and climate resilience, New Zealand
Glenn Mead
Subchapter 13.5: Conservation of native vegetation and traditional camel herding in Rajasthan, India
Ilse Kohler-Rollefson, Hanwant Singh Rathore, and Aisha Rollefson
Subchapter 13.6: Sustainability of organic dairy production in Tyrol pastures, Austria
Wilhelm Knaus, Thomas Drapela, Roswitha Weissensteiner, Heinz Gstir, and Werner Zollitsch
Subchapter 13.7: Feeding spineless cactus to cattle for drought resilience, Kenya
Margaret Syomiti, Samuel Chirchir, John Duyu, and Dana Hoag
Subchapter 13.8: Integrated organic livestock-crop production system, Thailand
Jintana Indramagala
Subchapter 13.9: Improving nutrient efficiency through organic management, Madagascar
Paulo Salgado, Emmanuel Tillard, Stephanie Alvarez, and Philippe Lecomte
Subchapter 13.10: Breeding for gastrointestinal parasite resistance in Merino sheep, Australia
John Karlsson and Annika Karlsson
Subchapter 13.11: Animals for feeding soils on biodynamic farms, Egypt
Angela Hofmann, Helmy Abouleish, and Anne Bandel
Section 5 – Conclusions
14. Full-cost accounting for decision-making related to livestock systems
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Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 2, 2021
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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