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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Designing genetic impact assessment for crossbreeding with exotic beef breeds in mixed farming systems
Outlook on Agriculture (2020). - ISSN 0030-7270 -
A review of European models to assess the sustainability performance of livestock production systems
Agricultural Systems 182 (2020). - ISSN 0308-521X -
The nuts and bolts of animal emotion
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 113 (2020). - ISSN 0149-7634 - p. 273 - 286. -
Combining recent nutritional data with prospective cohorts to quantify the impact of modern dietary patterns on disability–adjusted life years : A feasibility study
Nutrients 12 (2020)3. - ISSN 2072-6643 -
Sustainability challenges and innovations in the Dutch egg sector
Journal of Cleaner Production 258 (2020). - ISSN 0959-6526