The production, transport and processing of food products have significant environmental impacts, some of them related to climate change. This …
Both the process of carbon footprinting and carbon labelling of food products are currently voluntary in the UK. Both processes derive from the UK’s policy for sustainable development and in particular, the UK’s Framework for Environmental Behaviours that strongly advocates a social marketing approach towards behavioural change. This paper examines whether carbon footprinting and labelling …
The food system appropriates over 30% of all ice-free land, 70% of available freshwater and 20% of energy. Sustainable food …
Poultry production has been identified as a major producer of NH3 and, to a lesser extent, of greenhouse gases (GHGs) mainly by national emissions inventories. However, since most national inventories are based on average emission factors for each type of animal (‘tier 1’ approach), the factors that influence these emissions (through breeding and manure-management practices) …
1. Endotoxins as components of organic dust may have adverse effects on the respiratory health of workers in poultry buildings. …
The potential of vegetative barriers to reduce dust and avian respiratory virus transmission from a 6-house commercial laying hen facility was evaluated in 3 trials using a combination spray vaccine for Newcastle disease virus (La Sota strain) and infectious bronchitis virus (Mass-Conn strains) as a model. Before each trial, 7-wk-old specific-pathogen-free chickens were placed in …
The maintenance of bone strength has been an important issue in the debate over cage use for laying hens. Bone …
Rising affluence in major developing countries (principally China and India) and increasing diversion of agricultural resources for energy production (USA …
Changes in both farm production and food transport have resulted in the imposition of new levels of environmental costs. This …
Human society is on a collision course with nature, thus its sustainability is seriously questioned nowadays. To understand this problem …
The global poultry sector is divided into a large-scale commercial sub-sector dominated by international, vertically integrated companies, and a small-scale …
The paper addresses the new competition for land arising from growing and changing demand for food when combined with increasing …
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. Whereas LCA developed from merely energy analysis …
This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both …
Despite the large number of studies examining the impact of cage systems on Ca and P nutrition,data are limited on …
The global pattern of expanding urban centers and increasing agricultural intensity is leading to more frequent interactions between air pollution …
The first International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, took place from 3 to 7 September, 2007, in Interlaken, Switzerland. The main achievement of the Conference was the adoption of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, the …
The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources was adopted by 109 countries in Interlaken, in September 2007. It …
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