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Cross-sector Comparisons of Poultry Production in The Philippines [PDF]

The Philippine poultry industry is diverse. It comprises broiler chicken, layer chicken, native chicken and duck. The production of broiler and layer chickens are characterised by large-scale, intensive, commercial production systems with modern ...
Chang, Hui-Shung (Christie)
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Challenges and limitations of introducing pigeonpea as a new crop into smallholder farming systems through farmer‐to‐farmer education in Zambia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Legume plants offer generous benefits for both the planet and people by supporting sustainable farming, food and feed systems through their ability to symbiotically fix atmospheric nitrogen. While grain legumes are cultivated and consumed globally, their adoption, market development, and integration into cropping systems vary.
Hamid Khazaei, Sebastian Scott, Jarkko K. Niemi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury, Sarah Gora, Hannes Dempewolf, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Vania Azevedo, Sam Brockington, Ángela Cano, Daniel Carver, Carly Cowell, Peter Crane, Cary Fowler, Peter Giovannini, Luigi Guarino, Robbie Hart, Geoff Hawtin, Sarada Krishnan, Charlotte Lusty, Patricia Malcolm, Nan McCarry, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Tara Moreau, Arshiya Noorani, Susan K. Pell, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Erin C. Riordan, Stefan Schmitz, Paul Smith, Charles Spillane, Alvaro Toledo, Raakel Toppila, Maarten van Zonneveld, Emily Warschefsky, Peter Wenzl   +35 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury, Hannes Dempewolf, Alejandro Argumedo, Stef de Haan, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Alvaro Toledo, Maarten van Zonneveld, Peter Wenzl   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental metagenomics enhances detection of circulating viruses from live poultry markets in Cambodia. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Cronin P, Siegers JY, Heang V, Tok S, Sin S, Sievers B, Omondi V, Nuon S, Chhel K, Nouhin J, Chim V, Seng B, Hak M, San S, Tum S, Claes FF, Firth C, Su YCF, Smith GJD, Karlsson EA.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Role of voluntary litter consumption by broiler chickens on gut function and gut health

, 2012
Poultry housed in floor pen systems are able and likely to consume litter materials from the floor. How consumption of different types of litter materials affects growth performance, nutrient digestibility, gut function and gut health in poultry is a ...
Svihus, Birger, Wu, Shubiao
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How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative genomic analysis of antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Escherichia coli isolated from pigeons and chickens in live poultry markets, Guiyang, China. [PDF]

Poult Sci
Huang J, Hu M, Song L, Deng Q, Peng L, Wen G, Cheng A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Avian Influenza A Virus Infection among Workers at Live Poultry Markets, China, 2013-2016. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 2018
Ma MJ, Zhao T, Chen SH, Xia X, Yang XX, Wang GL, Fang LQ, Ma GY, Wu MN, Qian YH, Dean NE, Yang Y, Lu B, Cao WC.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source