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Shrub encroachment in pastures in the Alps

Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2008
Landscape closing due to the decline in agricultural activity is considered to be a major problem in the Alps. Abondance Valley provides a good example of this phenomenon and is also representative of a paradox commonly found in the Northern French Alps:
Olivier Camacho, Laurent Dobremez, Alain Capillon   +2 more
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Evaluating the need for an animal welfare assurance programme in South Tyrolean dairy farming

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2020
Animal welfare assurance is of great importance as dairy farming is recently under increasing pressure to meet societal and commercial expectations.
Katja Katzenberger, Elke Rauch, Michael Erhard, Sven Reese, Matthias Gauly   +4 more
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A comparison of animal-related figures in milk and meat production and economic revenues from milk and animal sales of five dairy cattle breeds reared in Alps region

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2020
The objective of this study was to compare animal-related figures in milk and meat production and economic revenues from milk and animal sales over the last decade of the five most-common dairy cattle breeds in South Tyrol.
Thomas Zanon, Sven König, Matthias Gauly   +2 more
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Assessing the impacts of climate change on high mountain land-based livelihoods: An empirical investigation in District Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Heliyon
Land-based livelihoods in Pakistan's high mountain regions are highly vulnerable to climate change due to the complex interactions between people and their natural environment. This study uses a mixed-method approach to explore how climate change affects
Iftikhar Ali, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, Bader Alhafi Alotaibi, Amjad Ali   +3 more
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Economic assessment of small-scale mountain dairy farms in South Tyrol depending on feed intake and breed

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2020
Dairy mountain farms are economically disadvantaged due to small farm size and high production costs. However, these farms are of importance for the preservation of traditional landscapes and biodiversity, especially when they are managed extensively ...
Sarah Kühl, Laura Flach, Matthias Gauly
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MOUNTAIN FARMING IN AUSTRIA

AGROFOR, 2018
For decades, the mountain regions in Austria have been of regional, social,environmental and economic relevance. The European Union has ranked themamong the most disadvantaged areas for agriculture. Nevertheless, in mountainousregions, ‘disadvantaged’ is not synonymous with marginal. On the contrary,agriculture is central to mountainous regions.
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A Proposed Typology of Farming Systems for Assessing Sustainable Livelihood Development Pathways in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan

Land
In Kyrgyzstan, most farming systems focus on animal husbandry, which depends on mixtures of crops and pastures around settlements and higher-elevation summer pastures.
Azamat Azarov, Roy C. Sidle, Dietrich Darr, Vladimir Verner, Zbynek Polesny   +4 more
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First evaluation of the practicability of the CLASSYFARM welfare assessment protocol in Italian small-scale mountain dairy farms - a case study

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2023
The challenges facing the health sector and the agri-food industry have become increasingly complex over the years. Animal welfare, drug consumption, the use of the slaughterhouse as an epidemiological observatory and biosecurity, as well as the health ...
Louis Holighaus, Thomas Zanon, Nicole Kemper, Matthias Gauly   +3 more
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Comparative Oligo‐FISH Mapping Illuminates Chromosomal Evolution Among Rutaceae Species Diverged Over 50 Million Years

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Oligonucleotide‐based fluorescence in situ hybridization probes were developed in the model citrus species Citrus maxima. These probes were applied to comparative karyotyping across 14 species in the Rutaceae family. This analysis revealed chromosomal evolution in lineages that diverged from Citrus nearly 52 million years ago.
Li He, Hainan Zhao, Xiaoxue Zeng, Zujun Yang, Wenting Li, Guoyan Zhang, Guangrong Li, Jian He, Bin Guan, Jiming Jiang   +9 more
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The XXI century mountains: sustainable management of mountainous areas based on animal traction

Open Agriculture, 2017
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), there are around 300 million working animals worldwide. They play a fundamental role in human livelihoods through their contribution to financial, human and social capital ...
Rodrigues J.B., Schlechter P., Spychiger H., Spinelli R., Oliveira N., Figueiredo T.   +5 more
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