Author: Olav F. Anderson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9780260470461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Dairying in War and Peace Production increases to supply an expanding market for milk may be expected as the result of several factors. (1) Feed supplies for dairying may be increased as a consequence of further declines in the number of work animals, by improvement in the varieties of feed crops produced, and by an increased use of lime and fertilizers on crop and pasture land. (2) Ah improvement in the efficiency of the average dairy cow appears likely, not only because of continued culling of inferior animals and more effective disease control, but also because of a rapidly expanding artificial-breeding program. Most of the improve 'ments from.the widespread use of improved sires, made possible by arti ficial breeding, are still to be achieved, and over a longer period it is possible that productive capacity will be increased by cross breeding. (3) Further mechanization provides a basis for increased operating effi cisney of the dairy enterprise. Shifts in the urban population, accompanying the probable future growth of industry in the South and West, may bring about changes in the regional pattern of milk production for fluid use. 'with relatively few alternative livestock enterprises that compete effectively with dairying, an expansion of milk production in the major manufactured dairy-product areas appears probable as methods of dairy processing and transportation are further improved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States Food Administration
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel F. Doeppers
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2016-04-11
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0299305104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the "megacity." A historical study of Manila looks at the continuing challenges of getting food, water, and services to the millions of people who live in the world's megacities.
Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alpaslan Özerdem
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1317168720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume by Özerdem and Roberts conceptualizes the challenges of developing sustainable agriculture in post-conflict environments as well as identifying the policies and practical solutions to achieve sustainable agricultural production which is central to the survival of humanity. Without sustainable agriculture, populations remain vulnerable increasing the likelihood of a return to conflict. Therefore, sustainable agriculture is central to effective post-conflict recovery that provides human security as well as stability and rule of law. Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative understanding of sustainable agriculture challenges in post-conflict environments, there is originality in the interdisciplinary nature of the book. Interdisciplinary often means bringing together a political scientist and a sociologist, but in this case it means bringing together natural and social scientists, as well as those with practical experience in development and agricultural contexts. By adopting a holistic multi-disciplinary approach which identifies key themes and case studies, this book sets the scene for the debate surrounding sustainable agriculture in post-conflict environments. Seeing 'fixing' agriculture as more than merely a technical matter, the volume focuses on this critical post-conflict challenge with social, political and cultural characteristics and consequences as well as the obvious economic ones.
Author: Tanya Cassidy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1351364103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices? Chapters record the practical everyday reality of work in a milk bank by drawing on extensive ethnographic observations and sensitive interview data from donors, mothers of recipients and the staff of four different milk banks from across the UK, and visits to milk banks across Europe and North America. It discusses the ongoing pressures to do with supply, demand and distribution. An empirically informed "ethnography of the contemporary", where both biosociality and biopower abound, this book includes an exploration of how milk banks evolved from registering wet nurses with hospitals, showing how a regulatory culture of medical authority began to quantify and organize human milk as a commodity. This book is a valuable read for all those with an interest in breastfeeding or organ and tissue donation from a range of fields, including midwifery, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and public health.
Author: Bruce A. Scholten
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1838604537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do we achieve food security for a global population now over 7 billion people and trending towards 10 billion by 2050? This study of the global dairy industry examines how to balance our needs with those of animals and the environment. It scrutinises ruminant bovines' worrying exhaling of methane, a greenhouse gas which, fortunately, evidence shows can be reduced by adding seaweed to cattle feed. Are the multi-thousand-cow mega-dairies of the USA appropriate models for Africa and Asia's high-growth dairy regions, where so many women are smallholders? Is it ethical to keep cows in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), eating unnatural high-energy/low fibre diets when they prefer grazing pasture? Other issues include hormones for oestrus stimulation, and GMOs for milk yield, stressing cows' immune systems and drastically shortening longevity. This book offers multifaceted discussion of the central and ancillary issues relevant to dairying, and consumption of plant- and laboratory-based foods in the 21st century. No book to date offers such a comprehensive overview, linking ethics, environment, health and policy-making with in-depth coverage of the major dairy farming regions of the world.