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Extending beyond traditional forage: potential nutritional benefits of native plants in extreme arid insular regions

Frontiers in Plant Science
The scarcity, unstable nutritional quality and environmental cost of imported forages in arid insular regions like Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands (Spain) need exploring sustainable local alternatives.
Raquel Pérez-Reverón, Adolfo Perdomo-González, Begoña de la Roza-Delgado, Covadonga Rodríguez, José A. Pérez-Pérez, Francisco J. Díaz-Peña   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of intercropping sweet sorghum with climbing bean on forage yield and quality [PDF]

Journal of Central European Agriculture
Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is an important silage crop and has an increasing popularity because of the need for relatively smaller quantities of water per unit dry matter production compared to maize.
Darko Uher, Zlatko Svečnjak, Dubravko Maćešić, Dario Jareš, Ivan Horvatić   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Resilience: Measuring the Livelihood Vulnerability of Commercial Livestock Farmers to Drought in South Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change continues to increase the frequency and intensity of events, threatening agricultural production, farmers' livelihoods and the achievement of SDGs 1 and 2 (No Poverty and Zero Hunger). This study examined the effect of agricultural drought on the livelihood vulnerability of commercial livestock farmers in the Northern Cape ...
Hanipher Mili, Yonas T. Bahta, Frikkie Mare, H. N. van Niekerk, Stephen Nyaki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Goat gut microbiome as a reservoir for microorganism-encoded short peptides: regulation by host development age and nematode challenge

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Short peptides are a promising class of antimicrobial agents with efficacy against multidrug-resistant pathogens. While host-derived defense peptides from animals and plants have been widely characterized, the landscape of microbial-encoded short ...
Qiongxian Yan, Wenxun Chen, Jinhe Kang, Xiaoling Zhou, Zhixiong He, Zhiliang Tan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chinese Altay sheep adapt to seasonal fluctuations in forage nutrients by changing physiological status and rumen microbial community structure

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionAs the primary nutritional source for grazing livestock, natural forage directly influences changes in physiological status and rumen microbial community structure owing to seasonal variations in its nutritional composition.
Mingyu Ma, Peng Zhang, Zhenzi Xu, Shu Li, Sijin Li, Qicheng Lu, Wenju Zhang, Yuanyaun Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Justice in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Unequal Burdens and Pathways to Socially Just Adaptation

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change in Sub‐Saharan Africa is often framed through vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation, yet these concepts alone do not fully explain the unequal social, economic, and political conditions shaping climate harm. This review examines climate change through a climate justice lens, focusing on unequal burdens, household welfare ...
Jacob Kwakye, Abraham Kwao
wiley   +1 more source

Review: Nutritional, production, and safety aspects of converting food loss and waste into feed for livestock

Animal
Agricultural activities place pressure on the environment through the demand of land, water, and nutrients, as well as the subsequent potential generation of emissions and pollutants.
L. Pinotti, P. Premarajan, P. Lin, E. Pacifico, M. Tretola, D.M.I.R. Cattaneo, M. Manoni   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alternative Cropping Systems and Practices Tend to Improve Sustainability From a Multi‐Criteria Assessment Framework. A Systematic Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative cropping systems and practices (ACSPs) are increasingly promoted as strategies to enhance sustainability across environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Consequently, evaluating the performance of ACSPs is necessary to determine whether they effectively contribute to sustainability across these multiple dimensions.
Claudia Daniel Escurza‐González, Xavier Simón, David Pérez‐Neira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving water productivity, reducing poverty and enhancing equity in mixed crop-livestock systems in the Indo-Gangetic Basin: CPWF project report 68 [PDF]

Farming systems / Mixed farming / Water productivity / Feed production / Livestock / Energy consumption / Gender / Poverty / River basins / Case studies / India / Indo-Gangetic Basin / West Bengal / Haryana / Uttar ...
Haileslassie, A., Acharya, N. Sreedhar, Dey, A., Shindey, D. N., Blummel, M., Samad, Madar, Radha, A. Venkata, Khan, M. A., Mit, R., Ishaq, Saba, Clement, Floriane   +10 more
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Strategies for Reducing Stored Feed Requirements [PDF]

, 2004
A basic, desirable goal for virtually any livestock producer is to minimize stored feed requirements. It is less expensive to have livestock harvest forage for themselves by grazing than to harvest it for them; therefore, the greater the extent to which ...
Ball, Don
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