This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 1 - No Poverty, SDG 2 - Zero Hunger, SDG 12 - Consumption & Production, SDG 13 - Climate Action, and SDG 15 - Life on Land. Livestock and ...

Integration of livestock in a crop production system intensifies crop yield and soil quality by leveraging synergies between multiple agroecosystem components and the added complexity due to trophic ...

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the University of Liverpool, the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere have traced how livestock systems act as a reservoir for ...

Worldwide, flooded rice cultivation has degraded soil quality, reducing rice yield and requiring intense use of inputs like fertilizers. On the other hand, integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) ...

Colombia has enacted a law aimed at preventing cattle linked to deforestation from entering beef supply chains by connecting livestock traceability, land ownership and forest monitoring systems ...

The Global South has overtaken the Global North as a livestock methane threat for two reasons. The first is continued population and income growth, which has increased consumer demand for beef and ...

I’m often asked to design customer and employee tracking systems. There are quite a few ways to do it, and it’s an interesting intersection of engineering and ethics – what information is reasonable ...

“As a new year begins, cattle producers may find value in looking back at the previous year to evaluate the operation’s productivity and profitability,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri ...

In a leader-follower grazing system, animals with different forage needs pass through a pasture in succession, using the land more efficiently without destroying its ability to support livestock.

Meat industry representatives have warned that the development of separate livestock movement recording systems in England, Scotland and Wales could undermine the effectiveness of a previously unified ...

Foot and mouth disease is common in South Africa’s wildlife reserves. There are constant efforts to make sure it doesn’t spread to farmed animals. But since 2019 the country has seen repeated ...