impacts of livestock production systems, in particular concerning land use competition, greenhouse gas emissions and rural …: Herd size combined with access to land for fodder production largely determines how producers feed their livestock … producers. Access to both arable land and pasture is dependent on land reform outcomes, which constrain farmers' livestock …

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock constitute the largest proportion of Australian agricultural GHG … emissions, necessitating development of strategies for mitigating GHG emissions from the livestock sector. Here we simulate a …

in mixed crop–livestock systems. Farmers have competing uses of crop residues – for soil cover, as fodder or as …

evidence from 10 studies on tradeoffs in the allocation of cereal crop residue biomass between soil management and livestock …

Global livestock production accounts for about 80% of global land use, is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss … consequence of rising demands for meat, eggs and dairy products. Theoretically, these impacts could be reduced by making the … changes (less meat and dairy), increased production efficiency, and reduced food waste. In a detailed model comparison, we …

modeling to examine interactions between crop and livestock procedures and between levels of different input factors and their … within the livestock operation and plant production is used. A sensitivity analysis is done to investigate the influence of … livestock operations to reduce the energy use on dairy farms in Germany. An uncertainty analysis is used to evaluate the results …

costs. Birth to slaughter livestock operation was much more economically stable than either cow-calf or fattening operations …. Overall, livestock activities were more stable than agricultural crops. Simulated farms showed that more diversified …