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Does crop-livestock integration lead to improved crop production in the savanna of West Africa? [PDF]

, 2010
Integrated crop-livestock farming in the Guinea savanna of West Africa is often assumed to lead to synergies between crop and livestock production, thereby improving the overall productivity and resilience of agricultural production.
Berkhout, E.D., Dercon, S., Diels, J., Franke, A.C., Iwuafor, E.N.O., Nziguheba, G., Plas, I., van der   +6 more
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Physical properties and particle-size fractions of soil organic matter in crop-livestock integration

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2012
Crop-livestock integration represents an interesting alternative of soil management, especially in regions where the maintenance of cover crops in no-tillage systems is difficult.
Carolina Tirloni, Antonio Carlos Tadeu Vitorino, Anderson Cristian Bergamin, Luiz Carlos Ferreira de Souza   +3 more
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Opportunities and challenges for integrating dairy cattle into farms with certified organic pineapple production as perceived by smallholder farmers in Central Uganda [PDF]

, 2019
A study was conducted in 2013 to assess opportunities and challenges of integrating dairy cattle into organic pineapple production in Uganda. Thirty organic pineapple farmers were interviewed using a semistructured questionnaire.
Kabi, Fred, Kiggundu, Muhammad, Nalubwama, Sylvia, Smolders, Gidi, Vaarst, Mette   +4 more
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Prospek Pengembangan Integrasi Usaha Peternakan di Indonesia

Caraka Tani: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2018
Growth of animal husbandry require to be supported by various production equipment, one of them is feed availability. Feed material source of energy come from corn, cassava, paddy bran, grist bran, sago and others, while feed materials source of protein ...
Kusuma Diwyanto, A Priyanti, R A Saptati
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Economic gains from crop-livestock integration in relation to conventional systems

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2020
The objective with this study was to calculate the total cost of maize production and beef cattle in permanent pasture activities in separate production systems (conventional) and integrated systems (maize production plus beef cattle), as well as to ...
Gabriela Geraldi Mendonça, Flávia Fernanda Simili, Jeferson Garcia Augusto, Pedro Mielli Bonacim, Leonardo Sartori Menegatto, Augusto Hauber Gameiro   +5 more
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Reconsidering Integrated Crop–Livestock Systems in North America [PDF]

Agronomy Journal, 2007
Although integrated crop–livestock systems have been employed globally for millennia, in the past century, farmers in North America have tended toward increased specialization. There is renewed interest in reintegrating crops and livestock because of concerns about natural resource degradation, the profitability and stability of farm income, long‐term ...
Michael P. Russelle, Martin H. Entz, Alan J. Franzluebbers   +2 more
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Integrated crop/livestock systems research: Practical research considerations

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 2008
AbstractThere are many reasons for the paucity of integrated crop/livestock research and associated publications. Integrated/crop livestock experiments that involve adequate treatments and replications, as perceived by both crop and animal scientists, require large numbers of hectares, many animals, considerable labor to conduct the research ...
D.L. Tanaka, J.F. Karn, E.J. Scholljegerdes   +2 more
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Integrated crop-livestock systems − a key to sustainable intensification in Africa [PDF]

Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales, 2013
Les systèmes mixtes cultures-élevage fournissent des moyens de subsistance à un milliard de personnes et produisent la moitié des céréales du monde et environ un tiers de son bœuf et de son lait. L'orientation vers le marché et la demande forte et croissante de denrées alimentaires constituent de puissantes incitations à l'intensification durable des ...
Alan J. Duncan, S. A. Tarawali, P.J. Thorne, Diego Valbuena, Katrien Descheemaeker, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui   +5 more
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Bioeconomic efficiency of lamb finishing production systems

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2018
This study aimed to evaluate the production performance, quantitative carcass characteristics, and economic viability of lambs of genetic group Pantaneiro finished under four production systems: 1) Stockpiled Brachiaria brizantha cv piatã pasture; 2 ...
Nielyson Junio Marcos Batista, Patrícia Guimarães Pimentel, José Alexandre Agiova da Costa, Gelson Luís Dias Feijó, Guilherme Rocha Moreira, Rogério César Pereira de Araújo, Fernando Alvarenga Reis, João Paulo Arcelino do Rêgo, Magno José Duarte Cândido, Ivone Yurika Mizubuti   +9 more
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Assessing complementary synergies for integrated crop–livestock systems under conservation agriculture in Tunisian dryland farming systems

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
The aim of this paper is twofold. The first objective is to measure the technical efficiency of mixed crop-livestock (CL) smallholder producers operating under conservation agriculture systems in Tunisian rainfed areas. The second objective is to explore
Boubaker Dhehibi, Ayoub Fouzai, Aymen Frija, Mohamed Abdel Adhim, Hatem Cheikh M'hamed, Hassen Ouerghemmi, Mourad Rekik   +6 more
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