In the Netherlands, intensification of agriculture has led to doubled yield per hectare, but the production driven practice come with an alarming and irreversible effects on the environment. Pressure on land and natural resources is increasing, biodiversity is declining, and climate change is getting …

Waste disposal management and the energy crisis are important challenges facing most countries. The fruit-processing industry generates daily several tons of wastes, of which the major share comes from banana farms. Anaerobic digestion (AD) technology has been applied to the treatment of wastewater, …

Afghanistan with a favourable climate conditions for the olive production grows commercial olives in Nangarhar Valley Agricultural Corporation (NVAC) in around 1,800 hectares. The produced fruits in NVAC farms has been processed to obtain oil and pickle in the NVAC olive processing factory which was …

Dairy Farmers in the Ziway-Hawassa milk shed have different knowledge, experience, assets that enable them to adjust themselves from various vulnerabilities and continue operating. This knowledge, experiences and assets help them to be more resilient by improving their adoptive capacities. However, asset …

The objective of this report was to develop a food forest design plan for one of the farms that is included in the Farm LIFE project, of which farm estate ‘De Koekkoek’ in Drimmelen was selected for this purpose. The design was designed to be adopted to the given site conditions and to meet the objectives …

Small scale farmers in Kenya face low milk yields from dairy cows. One of the causes is the low quality and quantity of roughage on small-scale farms. Overall in all Kenyan farming systems the dairy production is influenced by seasonal fluctuation of roughage production. Next to this it is known that …

The goal of this research was to find out if, and if yes, how, grazing management could be used to improve concentrate feed efficiency and thus farm income on commercial Irish dairy farms. The research was carried out on a commercial Irish dairy farm milking 240 crossbred cows on a dry farm with sandy …

Dutch dairy farms feel an increasing need to improve grassland production and grassutilization while at the same time reducing the environmental impact because of sustainability goals, legislation on manure management and recent intended policies.

Dutch dairy farms feel an increasing need to improve grassland production and grassutilization while at the same time reducing the environmental impact because of sustainability goals, legislation on manure management and recent intended policies.

The 'AgroCycle' project investigates whether a cooperation of farms can become self-sufficient in energy and fertilization by using manure and organic waste streams for the production of energy, green fuel and green fertilizers by means of anaerobic digestion (AD). In the project, the project partners …