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Resource Biochar: a solution to poultry manure problem? The Poultry Site reports on an article in USA Today that in turn reports on a farmer who is making biochar from chicken manure. The farm produces up to 800,000 chickens a year. You can read the Poultry Site article here and the original, longer article in USA Today here. Read
Resource Special issue on food security in Science: Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production Read
Resource Special issue on food security in Science: Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century Read
Resource Determining the environmental burdens and resource use in the production of agricultural and horticultural commodities This is an LCA of the production of the major agricultural/livestock commodities in the UK (Defra-funded Projects IS0205). The 10 key commodities studied were bread wheat, potatoes, oilseed rape, tomatoes, beef, pig meat, sheep meat, poultry meat, milk and eggs and the main conclusions are as follows: Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the single largest contributor to global warming potential (GWP) for all commodities except tomatoes, exceeding 80% in some cases. Read
