Improving Organic Animal Farming / edited by Mette Vaarst, Stephen Roderick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roderick, Stephen, editor.

Vaarst, Mette, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organic farming.

Livestock.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Organic animal farming is growing rapidly but faces a range of challenges in areas such as nutrition, health and welfare. This volume surveys the wealth of research addressing these challenges. The book start with a review of organic principles and the key question of the right breeds for organic farming. It then discusses forage-based nutrition and animal health as well as safety and environmental impact. The volume goes on to assess different types of organic animal farming, from smallholder tropical to pastoral rangeland systems. It concludes by focussing on key issues in the organic farming of beef and dairy cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and goats, fish and bees. Edited by two leading authorities in the field, and with an international team of expert authors, this will be a standard reference for all those interested in understanding, improving and promoting organic animal farming.

Contents:

Setting the scene: the continued drive to improve organic animal farming / Mette Vaarst and Stephen Roderick

The principles of organic livestock farming / Susanne Padel

The effects of organic management on greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency in livestock production / L.G. Smith, A.G. Williams

Rethinking and engaging with animal health in organic farming / Mette Vaarst

Enhancing naturalness and human care in organic animal farming / Lindsay K. Whistance

Biosecurity and safety for humans and animals in organic animal farming / K. Ellis

Integrated crop-livestock systems with agroforestry to improve organic animal farming / A.J. Escribano

Smallholder integrated organic farming: how can it work in the tropics? / Raphael Wahome and Caroline Chepkoech

Pastoralism and organic animal farming: are they complementary? / Stephen Roderick

Organic dairy farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challenges / S. Ivemeyer, A. Bieber, and A. Spengler Neff

Organic dairy farming: towards sustainability / Florian Leiber, Adrian Muller, Veronika Maurer, Christian Schader and Anna Bieber

Organic beef farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challenges / Isabel Blanco Penedo and José Perea-Muñoz

Organic sheep and goat farming: opportunities and challenges / Georgios Arsenos, Angeliki Argyriadou, Sotiria Vouraki and Athanasios Gelasakis

Organic pig farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challenges / Barbara Früh and Mirjam Holinger

Organic poultry farming: opportunities and challenges / Mette Vaarst, Klaus Horsted, and Veronika Maurer

The development of organic aquaculture / Timo StadtlanderOrganic and natural beekeeping, and caring for insect pollinators / Nicola Bradbear

Improving organic animal farming for the future / Stephen Roderick and Mette Vaarst.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Routledge, viewed February 1, 2023).

ISBN:

1-351-11461-1

1-78676-182-3

9781351114615