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Let them graze! Potentials of ruminant production outside the feed-food competition

Leiber, Florian (2022) Let them graze! Potentials of ruminant production outside the feed-food competition. In: Scialabba, Nadia El-Hage (Ed.) Managing Healthy Livestock Production and Consumption. 1 edition. Academic Press, London, UK, chapter 10, pp. 137-148.

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Summary

Chapter outline
- Feeding ruminants: what are their fair resources?
- The art of herding: challenges of grassland management and diet composition
- The meaning of phytochemical diversity: precision livestock farming on pasture
- Less will be more: site-adapted breeds
- Wrap-up: the potentials of grasslands for food security, ecological sustainability and animal welfare
- References


EPrint Type:Book chapter
Keywords:livestock, animal health, livestock production, consumption, Abacus, FiBL50064
Agrovoc keywords:
Language
Value
URI
English
livestock
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4397
English
animal health
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_431
English
livestock production
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_331557
English
consumption
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1827
Subjects: Animal husbandry > Production systems > Beef cattle
Animal husbandry > Feeding and growth
Research affiliation: Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Animal > Cattle
Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Animal > Animal welfare & housing > Grassland-based livestock systems
ISBN:978-0-12-823019-0 (Paperback); eBook ISBN: 9780128230510
Deposited By: Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau, FiBL
ID Code:43205
Deposited On:07 Jan 2022 14:27
Last Modified:02 Jan 2023 11:59
Document Language:English
Status:Published
Refereed:Peer-reviewed and accepted

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