Sustainable livestock production: Low emission farm - The innovative combination of nutrient, emission and waste management with special emphasis on Chinese pig production

Animal Nutrition
Thomas Kaufmann

Abstract

Global livestock production is going to be more and more sophisticated in order to improve efficiency needed to supply the rising demand for animal protein of a growing, more urban and affluent population. To cope with the rising public importance of sustainability is a big challenge for all animal farmers and more industrialized operations especially. Confined animal farming operations (CAFO) are seen very critical by many consumers with regard to their sustainability performance, however, the need to improve the sustainability performance especially in the ecological and social dimension exists at both ends of the intensity, i.e., also for the small holder and family owned animal farming models. As in livestock operations, feed and manure contribute the majority to the three most critical environmental impact categories global warming potential (GWP), acidification (AP) and eutrophication potential (EP) any effort for improvement should start there. Intelligent combination of nutrient-, emission- and waste management in an integrated low emission farm (LEF) concept not only significantly reduces the environmental footprint in the ecological dimension of sustainability, but by producing renewable energy (heat, electricity, bio...Continue Reading

Citations

May 8, 2020·Animal Science Journal = Nihon Chikusan Gakkaihō·Adebukunola Olufunmilayo LalaJos G M Houdijk
Dec 4, 2016·Annual Review of Animal Biosciences·Bie Tan, Yulong Yin
Apr 16, 2020·Journal of Environmental Management·Tao DaiAaron P Wemhoff

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