Diversification of crop** systems has been proposed as a major mechanism to move
towards sustainable crop** systems. To date, a diversification option that has received …

Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of the key tools for the evaluation of the
environmental sustainability of the agricultural sector. LCA related to milk production has …

Soil carbon sequestration, a climate change mitigation option for agriculture, can either
increase or decrease as a result of land management change (LMC) and land use change …

Cattle are the world's largest consumers of plant biomass. Digestion of this biomass by
ruminants generates high methane emissions that affect global warming. In the last …

Climate change is altering ecological systems and poses a serious threat to human life.
Climate change also seriously influences on livestock production by interfering with growth …

Farm sustainable intensification is an important strategy to reduce environmental impacts,
which can be obtained in particular through improvements in the milk production per cow …

Increasing demand for resources has been met with a new wave of resource efficiency
policies worldwide. Such policies are, however, vulnerable to rebound effects when …

Purpose Feed production is responsible for the majority of the environmental impact of
livestock production, especially for monogastric animals, such as pigs. Some feeding …

Environmental policies often underperform due to so-called rebound effects, namely
behavioural and systemic responses to technical change leading to additional consumption …

The main purpose of this study was first to estimate the carbon footprint (CF) of packaged
fluid milk through life cycle assessment (LCA), using regional data in Tehran, and then to …