The Animal Production and Health Sub-Programme primarily address the challenges imposed by highly infectious animal diseases on livestock production in FAO and IAEA Member States (MS). Our goal is to ...
Livestock farming is responsible for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, and ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats generate 35 percent of one of these gases -- methane, and according to ...
The Agency is Assisting Member States to Reduce the Amount of Methane Produced by Ruminant Livestock
This elevation has been attributed to the expansion in agricultural and industrial activities, including livestock farming, rice cultivation, mining of fossil fuels, reticulation of natural gas, and ...
Scientists could have a revolutionary new way of measuring how much of the potent greenhouse gas methane is produced by cows and other ruminants, thanks to a surprising discovery in their feces.
Karen Beauchemin spends every day in her lab at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Alberta, Canada, working on cow feed. Boring, you say? Far from it. Beauchemin is part of an international ...
Eating grass–sounds simple, right? But behind this everyday process lies a highly specialized system in many hoofed animals that is unique. Who would have thought that a cow or a deer needs four ...
27 January 2008 MUSCAT -- An international conference on 'Small Ruminant Production and Health in Arid and Semi-arid Regions' opened at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) yesterday under the patronage of ...
Ruminants evolved in diverse landscapes of which they utilized, by choice, a diverse arrangement of plants (grasses, forbs, and trees) for food. These plants provide them with both primary ...
Animal production remains a cornerstone of global food security, intertwining advances in genetic selection, environmental management and digital technologies to optimise yield and sustainability.
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