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One-Time Acidification of Slurry: What Is the Most Effective Acid and Treatment Strategy?
(2021-06-28)
Acidification of slurry is a common practice to reduce ammonia and methane emissions.
Sulfuric acid is usually used for this process. However, this has been criticized due to the high sulfur
input into soils. Therefore, ...
Glucocorticoids in relation to behavior, morphology, and physiology as proxy indicators for the assessment of animal welfare: A systematic mapping review
(2023-01-06)
Translating theoretical concepts of animal welfare into quantitative assessment protocols is an ongoing challenge. Glucocorticoids (GCs) are frequently used as physiological measure in welfare assessment. The interpretation ...
Triggering cognitive dissonance with textual information and images: Data from three experiments with meat-eaters
(2023-04-05)
This article presents data from three experiments in which we triggered and measured cognitive dissonance in meat-eaters. Cognitive dissonance is a well-established concept in the social psychology literature; however, ...
Jumping on the Bandwagon of Responsibility – Or Not?: Consumers' Perceived Role in the Meat Sector
(2022-05-21)
It is evident that sustainable meat consumption and production require shared responsibility for actions and consequences by consumers and producers. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the relevant focus areas within ...
Rural livelihoods, community-based conservation, and human–wildlife conflict: Scope for synergies?
(2022-08-01)
Halting biodiversity loss is a major contemporary challenge. Nature protection can help conserve biodiversity, but increasing wildlife numbers inside protected areas and shrinking habitats intensify interactions between ...
Recovering from Financial Implications of Flood Impacts: The Role of Risk Transfer in the West African Context
(2022-07-10)
In many West African river basins, households regularly experience floods and the associated impacts. In the absence of widely accessible formal risk transfer mechanisms (e.g., insurance), households often have to cope ...
Vegetation diversity in East African wetlands: Cocktail algorithms supported by a vegetation-plot database
(2022-12-08)
Aims: Wetlands in East Africa are important ecosystems for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provisioning, yet threatened by degradation and conversion into croplands. Conservation and land use management ...
Evaluations of agri-environmental schemes based on observational farm data: The importance of covariate selection
(2022-01-13)
Evaluations of agri-environmental schemes (AES) based on observational farm data generally use a matching algorithm for comparing participating and non-participating farms. To mitigate the potential post-matching covariate ...
Exploring animal genetic resources of the domestic chicken and their behavior in the open field
(2022-02-04)
Animal welfare is of general interest, and in the farming arena, efforts have increased to create optimal conditions for poultry production. Detailed and standardized studies on specific behavioral issues, such as fear, ...
Sustainable Innovations: A Qualitative Study on Farmers’ Perceptions Driving the Diffusion of Beneficial Soil Microbes in Germany and the UK
(2022-05-10)
Legislation and consumer preference for more sustainability in the food system require
farmers to adopt more stringent sustainably measures without sacrificing business profitability.
Scientific and technological ...