Pig manure treatment with housefly (Musca domestica) rearing-an environmental life cycle assessment

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 195-214

  Roffeis, M ^a   Muys, B ^a   Almeida, J ^a   Mathijs, E ^a   Achten, W M J ^b   Pastor, B ^c   Velasquez Y ^c   Martinez Sanchez, A I ^c   Rojo, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Insect rearing; Life cycle design; Pig production; Recycling; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989899942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23524588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/JIFF2014.0021     Document Type: Article

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