Dairy Farming Books
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Adding values to livestock diversity. Marketing to promote local breeds and improve livelihoods
FAO Animal Production and Health Papers # 168Many local livestock breeds and minor species are in decline and may be lost because they cannot compete with high-yielding exotic breeds. Conserving these breeds is important: many have unique traits, such as hardiness and disease resistance, that are vital for future livestock production. One way to help ensure their survival may be to sell products ...
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The Science and Technology of Industrial Water Treatment
Scale formation can compromise the quality and safety of countless products and resources including water treatment, dairy production, polymer production, and oil fields. As a solution, mineral scale inhibitors are often incorporated to mitigate fouling and prevent dangerous crystal growth. Written by internationally recognized researchers, this volume covers fundamental concepts and applied ...
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Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, Volume II
An authoritative reference for technical information on industrial and hazardous waste treatment, the Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, Volume II provides broad, comprehensive coverage of basic and advanced principles and applications. It addresses wastes in a variety of industries, covering metal finishing, food processing, milk production, coal mines, foundries, chemical ...
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Where does the carbon footprint fall? Developing a carbon map of food production
The concept of local food is appealing to many consumers. But it is difficult to define what actually constitutes local food. Given the globalised nature of agricultural markets, bread baked in a small village bakery in England may be made from grain grown in Canada. Similarly, many of the inputs to a West Country dairy farm selling local ice cream may come from outside the UK.One of the ...
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Milk for health and wealth
Smallholder dairying offers high returns to land and labour, a source of regular income, gives women an opportunity to become economically active, encourages cooperation between smallholders and transfers capital from urban centres to rural areas through the trade of milk: a low risk and low cost activity that has the potential to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods. [NOTE: The main target ...
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ASTM Standards for Whole Building Functionality and Serviceability: 3rd Edition
Get 32 of the latest ASTM standards for defining the functional requirements and rating the capabilities of a building or facility. Six sections cover: Demand for and supply of serviceability of an office facility Building floor area measurement for facility management Seismic risk assessment of buildings, and probable maximum loss Single family attached and detached ...
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Compilation of Agrinews videos (2008) / Compilation des videos Agriflash (2008)
This compilation contains the following Agrinews videos: 1) Potatoes in the air, "fruity ants", astuces livestock farmers, a tasty treat against malunutrition, detection aflatoxin, organic markets; 2) Food safety, cows and grasses, ginger´s back, head start on the armyworm, biotech plan, pedal and pump; 3) Cowpeas on top, community media, cooking without fire, interactive observers, transparency ...
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Setting up and running a small-scale dairy processing business
This manual describes the establishment of a business using fruits and vegetables, including different products and processes, potential markets, the equipment and facilities required, and quality assurance for each type of product. The business of managing a fruit or vegetable business is also covered, including health and safety issues, and managing staff, finances and business strategy. ...
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Milk and Milk Products - First edition. FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius
This volume includes Codex standards on milk, milk powders, condensed milks, creams, butter and all sorts of cheeses, and other related texts such as the Code of Hygienic Practice for Milk and Milk Products , published in this compact format to allow their wide use and understanding by governments, regulatory authorities, food industries and retailers, and consumers. This first edition includes ...
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Rearing dairy goats ( US$ 14.00 for 10 Copies )
This 8-page fold-out leaflet, practical for use in the field and easy to read, covers the subject of rearing dairy goats. It gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line ...
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Why Some Like It Hot
'Mixing hard science with personal anecdotes, Nabhan convincingly argues that health comes from a genetically appropriate diet inextricably entwined with a healthy land and culture.' -Publishers Weekly Do your ears burn whenever you eat hot chile peppers? Does your face immediately flush when you drink alcohol? Does your stomach groan if you are exposed to raw milk or green fava beans? If so, ...
By Island Press
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Benefits and Potential Risks of the Lactoperoxidase System of Raw Milk Preservation. Report of an FAO/WHO technical meeting. FAO headquarters, Rome, 2
Lactoperoxidase is an enzyme that is naturally present in milk. The activation of the lactoperoxidase in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and thiocyanate, both of which are naturally present in milk, has a bacteriostatic effect on raw milk and effectively extends the shelf life of raw milk for 7-8 hours under ambient temperatures of around 30ºC or longer at lower temperatures. Such an extension ...
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Worldwide regulations for mycotoxins in food and feed in 2003 (En)
Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersSince the discovery of the aflatoxins in the 1960s, mycotoxin regulations have been established in many countries, both to protect the consumer from the harmful effects of these toxins that may contaminate foodstuffs and to ensure fair practices in food trade. The present publication is an update of FAO Food and Nutrition Paper No. 64 (1977) and describes the ...
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Livestock Report 2006 (En)
The 2006 Livestock Report Highlights critical issues that arise from the globalisation of the Livestock sector. It is the first of a series that aims to stimulate broad debate, and to this end it covers a wide spectrum of topics. Five papers take a global perspective on various topics (including the management of transboundary animal diseases, the future of small-scale dairying, animal genetic ...
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Small farmers economic organisations and public policies – A comparative study
In Bolivia, small farmers economic organisations (organizaviones ecόnomicas campesinas – OECs) are increasingly being talked about as actors that could play a key role in channelling proposals and programmes for sustainable agriculture, in the context of market liberalisation and globalisation.But what are OEC’s? What is their function? How important are they to farming families? How do they ...
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Good practices for the meat industry (En)
Series: FAO Animal Production and Health ManualsIn recent years, public concern about the safety of foods of animal origin has heightened due to problems that have arisen with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), as well as with outbreaks of food-borne bacterial infections, and food contamination with toxic agents (e.g. dioxin). These problems have serious implications for national food ...
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Risk assessment of "Listeria monocytogenes" in ready-to-eat foods: technical report (En)
Series: Microbiological Risk Assessment SeriesCases of listeriosis appear to be predominantly associated with ready-to-eat products. FAO/WHO have undertaken a risk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods, prepared and reviewed by an international team of scientists. Input was received from several international fora including expert consultations and Codex Alimentarius ...
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Guide to good dairy farming practice 2004 (En)
This guide has been developed by the FAO/International Diary Federation Task Force on Good Dairy Farming Practices in a user-friendly format for dairy farmers. When adopted it will support the marketing of safe, quality-assured milk and dairy products, and focus on the relationship between consumer safety and best practice at farm level. The guidelines on individual practices have been drawn from ...
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Employement generation through small-scale dairy marketing and processing. Experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh and Ghana (En)
Series: FAO Animal production and health papersThe role of employment in poverty-reduction programmes in developing countries has received considerable attention the world over. Many new employment opportunities in many developing countries are created in the informal sector where the rate of growth may be higher than that of the formal sector. Dairy markets offer good opportunities for non-farm ...
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Fodder oats: a world overview (En)
Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection SeriesThis book, well illustrated, brings together information on the state of fodder oats worldwide, and is aimed mainly at agronomists and extension workers. It contains a series of regional studies focusing on oats used as fodder rather than grain. Oats are well adapted to areas of mild winters or cold climates with short growing seasons; their use ...
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