El. knyga: Sustainable Animal Agriculture [CABI E-books]

Animal scientists take a triple-bottom-line approach to animal production in which sustainability is found at the confluence of environmental, economic, and social considerations. Among the topics are the production efficiency of monogastric animals, minimizing environmental impacts of livestock production using diet optimization models, integrating air and water quality issues, economic sustainability in animal agriculture, life cycle assessment in ruminant production, and manipulating microbial ecology for sustainable animal production. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Sustainable Animal Agriculture covers practical topics such as air quality, manure management, animal feeds, production efficiency, environmental sustainability, biotechnology issues, animal welfare concerns, societal impacts and an analysis of the data used to assess the economic sustainability of farms.