Management options to reduce the carbon footprint of livestock products

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-39

  Hermansen, John E ^a   Kristensen, Troels ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate; Feed conversion; Land use; Life cycle assessment; Manure handling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879840274     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2011-0008     Document Type: Article

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