Animal Production Systems Group
Research of the Animal Production Systems Group focuses on unravelling the complexity of concerns in livestock systems and exploring trade-offs and synergies of innovations regarding environmental impact, animal welfare, and economic viability, to design a more sustainable future.
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Do animals have a role in future food systems?
Animals can convert leftovers from arable land and grass resources into valuable food and other ecosystem services. By converting these biomass streams, animals recycle nutrients into the food system that otherwise would have been lost for food production, thereby contributing to a circular food system.
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Latest publications
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Opportunities for Brucellosis Control in Mexico: Views Based on the Sustainable Livelihoods Perspective
Frontiers in Veterinary Science 6 (2019). - ISSN 2297-1769
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Restoring nutrient circularity: A review of nutrient stock and flow analyses of local agro-food-waste systems
Resources, Conservation and Recycling: X 3 (2019).
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Factors influencing off-take rates of smallholder sheep farming systems in the Western Cape Provinve of South Africa
South African Journal of Agricultural Extension 47 (2019)3. - ISSN 0301-603X - p. 83 - 91.
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Everything is relative and nothing is certain. Toward a theory and practice of comparative probabilistic LCA
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 24 (2019)9. - ISSN 0948-3349 - p. 1573 - 1579.
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The battle for biomass: A systematic review of food-feed-fuel competition
Global Food Security (2019). - ISSN 2211-9124