Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems.

Science56.90
Volume: 327, Issue: 5967, Pages: 822 - 825
Published: Feb 12, 2010
Abstract
Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops. Animals act as insurance against hard times and supply farmers with a source of regular income from sales of milk, eggs, and other products. Thus, faced with...
Paper Details
Title
Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems.
Published Date
Feb 12, 2010
Journal
Volume
327
Issue
5967
Pages
822 - 825
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