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Fostering sustainable consumption through communication: Consumers’ appreciation of biodiversity-friendly pasture-based cattle husbandry
(2024-01)
Considering dramatic environmental changes, there is an evident necessity of a transition to more sustainable animal production that caters to societal demand for ethical production and consumption. The slow but steady shift in consumer demand for animal-friendly, environmentally, and socially re-sponsible animal products has been well documented over the past years. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to provide insights regarding consumer perceptions, acceptance, preferences and com-munication of ...
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New Approaches for the Quantification of Metabolic and Economic Trade-Offs Related to the Health and Longevity of Individual Dairy Cows
(2024)
Background: In dairy cows, negative associations between the genetic merit for milk yield and fitness traits as well as a lack of success in lowering the prevalence of production diseases have been noticed over the past 30 years across different production methods, herd sizes and countries. On the other hand, individual farms and individual cows within a farm succeed in simultaneously achieving high performance, low prevalence and high profitability, while others cannot cope with these challenges. Differences in milk ...
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Drivers for Fostering Agroforestry Systems in Temperate and Mediterranean Climates: Past, Present, and Future
(2024)
Traditional multifunctional agroforestry landscapes provide not only food but also support biodiversity and provide a multitude of ecosystem services. However, such landscapes have been frequently lost in the last decades. Given the multiple global challenges that have emerged from an industrial model of agriculture, agroforestry as a concept based on multifunctionality is increasingly regarded as key for sustainable food production systems of the future. To guide future land management and policies, past land-use ...