Essays about: "feeding practices"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 44 essays containing the words feeding practices.

  1. 1. Shifting focus from yields to food supply : an evaluation of the ‘number of people fed per hectare’ indicator at farm and national level

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Ida Ekqvist; [2024]
    Keywords : Land use efficiency; Sustainability indicators; Agricultural productivity; Food production;

    Abstract : The challenge of feeding a growing global population while reducing the pressure on climate and ecosystems has gained much attention in research over the last decades. A crucial yet often overlooked aspect in research addressing this complex challenge is the efficiency of food production in meeting nutritional needs within the constraints of global cropland resources. READ MORE

  3. 2. Telling a different story: Farming resilience in hay-milk farms in Salzburg province

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Julia Fritzsche; [2023]
    Keywords : farming resilience; Salzburg; hay-milk farming;

    Abstract : Foregrounding relations and processes in resilience thinking has the potential to enable more holistic analyses and account for complexity, which could lead to more resilient actions, interventions, or ways of being. The concept of farming resilience builds on a process-relational understanding of resilience and thus offers a move away from more substance-based understandings of resilience as outcome. READ MORE

  4. 3. Upscaling agroecology in Sweden : a participatory-backcasting approach to investigate top-down measures for promoting an agroecological transition of the Swedish agricultural system

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : Pablo Ratti; [2023]
    Keywords : Agroecology; transition; top-down; scenario; participatory policies;

    Abstract : Alongside its important contribution to the increase of yields, industrial agriculture has also generated environmental, social and economical negative side effects. Moreover, the forecasted growth of the world’s population puts more pressure for solutions on how to increase food supply while reducing the negative effects of the current agricultural system. READ MORE

  5. 4. Complementary porridge based on pearl millet and cow pea : the effect of traditional processing techniques and cooking methods on pasting properties and in vitro starch digestibility

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Signe Christerson; [2023]
    Keywords : Cow pea; pearl millet; traditional processing techniques; germination; fermentation; soaking; pasting properties; starch digestibility; energy density;

    Abstract : In Mozambique, malnutrition in children under 5 years is a serious concern. The condition is thought to be owing to nutritionally inferior diets and improper feeding practices on a mainly cereal-based diet, where porridges from millet- and legume-flours constitute the major staple food. READ MORE

  6. 5. Tillskottsutfodring av ren (Rangifer tarandus) på slakterier : rutiner och utmaningar

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Ida Suopanki; [2022]
    Keywords : tillskottsutfodring; Rangifer tarandus; slakteri; metabolism; rutiner; utmaningar;

    Abstract : Utfodring av ren blir alltmer vanligt inom renskötseln på grund av krympande betesmarker och förändrade klimatförhållanden. Faktorer som skogsbruk och infrastruktur har bidragit till konkurrens om marken. Vidare har klimatförändringar i form av temperaturväxlingar och mer nederbörd bidragit till svårare vinterbetesförhållanden. READ MORE