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Carlos Alejandro Perez Garcia, Marco Bovo, Daniele Torreggiani, Patrizia Tassinari and Stefano Benni
The escalating global population and climate change necessitate sustainable livestock production methods to meet rising food demand. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) integrates information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve farming efficien...
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Andrea Costantino
The need to improve the sustainability of intensive livestock farming has led to an increasing adoption of Building Energy Simulation (BES) models for livestock houses. However, a consolidated body of knowledge specifically dedicated to these models is l...
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Mengxi Li, Xiuguo Zou, Bo Feng and Xinfa Qiu
NH3 emissions are an environmental issue that is of wide concern in livestock production. In intensive livestock farming, it is necessary to study outdoor ammonia concentrations under various conditions to maximize the protection of livestock caretakers?...
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Mengbing Cao, Qianying Yi, Kaiying Wang, Jiangong Li and Xiaoshuai Wang
Precise ventilation rate estimation of a naturally ventilated livestock building can benefit the control of the indoor environment. Machine learning has become a useful technique in many research fields and might be applied to ventilation rate prediction...
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Xin Deng, Lingzhi Zhang, Rong Xu, Miao Zeng, Qiang He, Dingde Xu and Yanbin Qi
Groundwater protection is essential for global sustainable development. Due to the lack of motivation among farmers to build harmless disposal facilities for livestock excrement, there is a huge challenge surrounding groundwater protection, which also th...
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Prabhat Khanal, Rajan Dhakal, Tanka Khanal, Deepak Pandey, Naba Raj Devkota and Mette Olaf Nielsen
In many developing countries, the livestock sector plays a vital role in the national economy, providing a source of food, income, and employment. With changes in demographical, socio-economic, and environmental status, the livestock sector in the develo...
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Ian J. Tetlow
Starch is a water-insoluble polyglucan synthesized inside the plastids of plant tissues to provide a store of carbohydrate. Starch harvested from plant storage organs has probably represented the major source of calories for the human diet since before t...
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Elsie Assan, Murari Suvedi, Laura Schmitt Olabisi and Andrea Allen
The negative impacts of climate change on agriculture could erode gains made toward gender equality in Ghana. Much of the literature on gender dimensions of climate change adaptation has focused on assessing differences in coping and adaptation practices...
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Tejendra Chapagain
Farming in Northern Ontario is limited to less than 1% of the total land area available. With over 2000 farms, this is home to about 6% of the province?s population, concentrated in the five major southern border cities of Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, ...
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David Bote, Stephen Mago, Costa Hofisi
This study breaks new ground by looking at an innovative financial approach of livestock banking vis-vis rural finance. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the validity and feasibility of cattle banking as an alternative innovative financing strateg...
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