The Faculty of Agriculture: Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Concepts for the assessment and improvement of animal welfare during stressful and painful management procedures with a focus on piglet castration
Schmid, Simone Magdalene (2021-09-06)The welfare of farm animals is a topic of rising importance to consumers and livestock owners. Many procedures that are routinely performed in young livestock, for example the surgical castration of piglets, are considered ... -
Intestinal integrity characteristics of growing pigs in response to oregano essential oil supplementation
Hofmann, Haiko Hendrik (2021-09-06)The production of protein of animal origin is of great importance worldwide. In Germany, pig production is of considerable importance to meet this need. To ensure successful animal production, an intact intestinal tract ... -
Sensor platform for rapid detection and quantification of indicator and pathogenic bacteria on food contact surfaces
Badalyan, Grigori (2021-08-04)Foodborne pathogenic bacteria represent a global problem for public health. <em>Escherichia coli</em> and Coliforms indicates the possible contamination of food, water and food processing environments. In food processing ... -
Development of a new method to identify parameters affecting the microbial reduction in domestic dishwashers
Brands, Britta (2021-07-29)The purpose of dishwashing is to clean the items used. In addition to the removal of food residues, the aim is to reduce microbial contamination on dishes and cutlery so that it is reduced below the infectious dose. <br ... -
Adaptation assessment of a spring barley population to organic and conventional agro-ecosystems using genome sequencing approaches
Schneider, Michael (2021-07-26)Over the past few decades, plant breeding has contributed significantly to increased crop yields in industrial agriculture. Besides, alternative, environmentally friendly farming approaches became more popular in the past ... -
Rural Households´ Vulnerability and Strategies to Overcome Flash Floods and Landslides in the Northern Mountainous Regions of Vietnam
Pham, Nga Thanh Thi (2021-07-13)Vietnam, situated in South East Asia and dominated by the agricultural sector, is heavily influenced by various types of natural disasters such as floods, flash floods, storms, drought, landslides, and earthquakes. ... -
One-Time Acidification of Slurry: What Is the Most Effective Acid and Treatment Strategy?
Overmeyer, Veronika; Kube, Anita; Clemens, Joachim; Büscher, Wolfgang; Trimborn, Manfred (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, ... -
Selbsttrocknende Öle auf Basis Nachwachsender Rohstoffe zum Schutz von Pflanzen gegenüber abiotischen und biotischen Schadfaktoren: Self-Drying plant oils from renewable resources to protect crops against abiotic and biotic stress
Kraska, Thorsten; Pude, Ralf (2021-04)Die Reduktion von chemischen Pflanzenschutzmitteln ist ein primäres gesellschaftliches Ziel und im „Nationalen Aktionsplan zur Nachhaltigen Anwendung von Pflanzenschutz-mitteln“ Deutschlands festgeschrieben (BLE, 2013). ... -
Konkurrierende Schutzgüter in der Tierhaltung: Analyse aus Sicht der Konsument*innen
Große Streine, Lena; Klink-Lehmann, Jeanette; Weingarten, Nina; Simons, Johannes; Hartmann, Monika (2021-04)Zur Festlegung der gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen der Nutztierhaltung sowie für die Förderung im Bereich der Tierhaltung werden Kenntnisse zu den Präferenzen von Bürger*innen in Hinblick auf den Umgang mit Zielkonflikten ... -
Modelling the dynamics of land use & intensification in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Gebrekidan, Bisrat Haile (2021-06-17)This thesis intends to examine the determinants and results of farmer’s decisions to uptake different paths of intensification, land use, and its dynamics over time by building a spatially and temporally explicit agent-based ... -
Adaptation strategies to climate change in inland valleys in Dano, Burkina Faso
Somda, Wenceslas (2021-06-16)The agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa at many locations is under-performing and lags behind the other continents in terms of yields as well as productivity. The recent progression in the produced quantities is mainly due ... -
Economic and policy mechanisms affecting land use decisions in the Brazilian agricultural frontier
Miranda Arana, A. Javier (2021-06-16)The sustainable use of land resources is one of the most complex challenges facing the 21st century. As Brazil is one of the countries most endowed with land resources, it can facilitate global food and energy demands while ... -
Spatio-Temporal Registration Techniques for Agricultural Robots
Chebrolu, Nived (2021-06-16)A critical challenge that we face today is to meet the rising demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel from an ever-growing world population. We must meet this demand within the limited arable land available to us and do so ... -
Potential and limitations for the practical use of fluorescence sensors to detect physiological adaptations of crops
Hamann, Fábio André (2021-06-14)The key objective of the present work was to evaluate the potential and limitations for the practical use of fluorescence sensors to detect physiological responses of crops to abiotic stresses, and the crop adaptations to ... -
Genomic indicators for boar taint and fertility in Landrace and Large White populations
Brinke, Ines (2021-06-14)Castration of male piglets in their first week of life is a commonly used but critically reflected method to avoid boar taint. Fattening of entire males represents a long-term sustainable alternative to castration but ... -
From lab to field - investigations of phosphorus availability from sugarcane bagasse ash to soybeans
Dombinov, Vitalij (2021-05-26)Every year the Brazilian sugarcane industry generates up to 10 million tons (dry matter) of ash from the combustion of sugarcane bagasse, which is a fibrous plant material that remains after sugarcane juice extraction. ... -
Dormancy in temperate fruit trees - Perspectives for farming in a changing climate
Fernández Collao, Eduardo (2021-05-26)Deciduous fruit trees, which originated in temperate climates, exhibit an inactive period (i.e. dormancy) between late autumn and early spring. This period allows trees to endure the severe winter temperatures usually ... -
Effect of an inflammatory stimulus on mitochondrial functionality in liver cells of dairy cows
Alaedin, MohamadTaher (2021-05-26)Mitochondria are essential organelles with key roles in metabolism and health; their function is influenced by various exogenous and endogenous factors. Dairy cows undergo a negative energy balance (EB) and a systemic ... -
The roles of nutrition-sensitive interventions and market access in enhancing household food security and resilience in Sierra Leone
Bonuedi, Isaac (2021-05-17)Using Sierra Leone – a post-conflict country in West Africa – as a case study, this dissertation addresses pressing issues on how to make smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive, mitigate the adverse effects of ... -
Anbauoptimierung durch Mischanbau und inhaltsstoffliche sowie sensorische Qualitätseigenschaften morphinarmer Winter- und Sommermohnsorten (Papaver somniferum L.)
Luhmer, Katharina (2021-05-04)Der Anbau und die Vermarktung von Mohnsamen aus regionalem Anbau bieten Chancen, eine alte Kulturpflanze in moderne Agrarökosysteme und Betriebskonzepte zu integrieren und diese ökologisch wie ökonomisch aufzuwerten. ...