Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1108428150
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Egil Robert Ørskov
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780444418364
Feed evaluations systems: historical background; structure and chemistry;feed evaluation-energy; methods of protein evaluation for nonruminants; protein evaluation in ruminants; feeding value of cereals and concentrates; processing and preservation of cereals and protein concentrates; dietary-digestive interactions determining the feeding value of forages and roughages; the preservation of forages; improvement of poor quality forages and roughages; associative effects of feeds; the feeding value of fats; the feed of by-products and wastes.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 030904684X
This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it. Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China's grasslands to overgrazing and excessive cultivation of marginal areas and discuss measures to limit the damage. The book gives its view on the Chinese approach to the study of grasslands and the relevance of this activity in China to global scientific concerns.
Author : Henning Steinfeld
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251055717
"The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.
Author : Lester Russell Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 9780393038972
To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. But when China, a market ten times bigger, starts importing, there may not be enough grain in the world to meet that need - and food prices will rise steeply for everyone. Analysts foresaw that the recent four-year doubling of income for China's 1.2 billion consumers would increase food demand, especially for meat, eggs, and beer. But these analysts assumed that food production would rise to meet those demands. Brown shows that cropland losses are heavy in countries that are densely populated before industrialization, and that these countries quickly become net grain importers. We can see that process now in newspaper accounts from China as the government struggles with this problem.
Author : Jack A. Mathias
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0429605617
If you are looking for wide-ranging international coverage of all aspects of integrated fish forming, this is the book you need. With a carefully selected and fully interdisciplinary collection of papers from experts around the world, Integrated Fish Farming provides thorough, detailed coverage of one of the world's most important approaches to integrated farming systems. Integrated Fish Fanning places IFF in a global context, reporting on case studies of successful IFF operations, experiments to enhance IFF performance, bioeconomic survey and modeling analyses, research on farm waste use and pond ecology, socio-economic elements of IFF extension and adoption, and the bio-technical and economic aspects of adapting IFF to reservoirs, marshlands, rice paddies, and marginal habitats. With contributions from leading international authorities and in-depth information from IFF operations worldwide, this is the definitive reference on Integrated Fish Farming.
Author : Umberto Albarella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199686475
Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. This Handbook offers a cutting-edge, global compendium of zooarchaeology that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in past human cultures. Case studies from across five continents explore ahuge range of human-animal interactions from an array of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts, and also illuminate the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions instudying these relationships.
Author : Ningning Dong
Publisher : International
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781407357928
This book, integrating multiple lines of evidence and their contextual information, attempts to investigate folk animal classification in central China during the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age through archaeology.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309316472
By 2050 the world's population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in global affluence, a substantial increase in per capita meat, dairy, and fish consumption is also anticipated. The demand for calories from animal products will nearly double, highlighting the critical importance of the world's animal agriculture system. Meeting the nutritional needs of this population and its demand for animal products will require a significant investment of resources as well as policy changes that are supportive of agricultural production. Ensuring sustainable agricultural growth will be essential to addressing this global challenge to food security. Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability identifies areas of research and development, technology, and resource needs for research in the field of animal agriculture, both nationally and internationally. This report assesses the global demand for products of animal origin in 2050 within the framework of ensuring global food security; evaluates how climate change and natural resource constraints may impact the ability to meet future global demand for animal products in sustainable production systems; and identifies factors that may impact the ability of the United States to meet demand for animal products, including the need for trained human capital, product safety and quality, and effective communication and adoption of new knowledge, information, and technologies. The agricultural sector worldwide faces numerous daunting challenges that will require innovations, new technologies, and new ways of approaching agriculture if the food, feed, and fiber needs of the global population are to be met. The recommendations of Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability will inform a new roadmap for animal science research to meet the challenges of sustainable animal production in the 21st century.
Author : CSCPRC Animal Sciences Delegation
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A bried introduction to China and its animal industry; Some economics of animal production; Swine production; Cattle and buffalo production; Sheep and goat production; Utilization of animal products; Animal breeding and genetics; Nutrition research; Animal health; A look to the future: China's animal industry.
