Unilever steps up to sustainable food agenda.
The UK Farmers Club Journal recently published an overview of the presentation given by Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, at …
The UK Farmers Club Journal recently published an overview of the presentation given by Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, at …
Layer breeding companies apply selection criteria to improve over 30 traits important for commercial egg production. Intensive selection for egg …
The social and political pressure to change egg production from conventional cage systems to alternative systems has been largely driven …
Conventional cage housing for laying hens evolved as a cost-effective egg production system. Complying with mandated hen housing alternatives would raise marginal production costs and require sizable capital investment. California data indicate that shifts from conventional cages to barn housing would likely cause farm-level cost increases of about 40% per dozen. The US data on …
By 2050, the global food requirement will increase significantly, driven by a population increase tomore than nine billion and by a richer diet. There is a need for agricultural and food systems that are not only more productive, but also sustainable. Currently, progress is hampered by a lack of understanding how to close the yield …
Global food and feed demands have been projected to double in the 21st century, which will further increase the pressure …
The effects of climate change are controversial. This paper reviews the effects of climate change on livestock following the theory …
The US egg industry is being pressured from many directions to change its production practices, particularly to address concerns about hen welfare in conventional cage systems. Responding to similar pressures, in 1999, the European Union banned conventional laying cages starting in 2012. This now impending European ban has led to the development of several alternative …
Smallholder livestock keepers represent almost 20% of the world population and steward most of the agricultural land in the tropics. …
The food price spike in the first half of 2008 has increased concerns about the global supply of food in …
Livestock are a global resource of significant benefits to society in the form of food, income, nutrients, employment, insurance, traction, …
Production ecology and conservation biology have long focused on providing the knowledge base for intensive food production and biodiversity conservation, …
In the present study, the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) for the comparison of two egg packages, from polystyrene …
Despite significant recent public concern and media attention to the environmental impacts of food, few studies in the United States …
Livestock production has a major impact on the environment. Choosing a more environmentally-friendly livestock product in a diet can mitigate …
There has never been a greater need for delivering timely and policy-relevant information on the magnitude and evolution of the …
As part of a systemic assessment toward social sustainability of egg production, we have reviewed current knowledge about the environmental …