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Healthy and sustainable animal husbandry is the goal of animal breeding. This book provides a detailed overview of applications of post-genome era techniques for livestock genetics and breeding. It also describes techniques for genetically selecting…

This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast,…

This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of…

Anemonefishes, one of the most popular and recognizable of fishes in the world, are much more than film characters; they are also emerging model organisms for studying the biology, ecology, and evolution of coral reef fishes. They are a group of 28…

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Farm Animal Transport that was published in Animals

One of the biggest challenges of animal agriculture in the twenty-first century is how to supply the Earth’s growing population with high-quality, healthy, and safe food of animal origin. One possible way to improve the biological efficiency of…

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Feeding Strategies to Improve Sustainability and Welfare in Animal Production that was published in Animals

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Fungi and Fungal Metabolites for the Improvement of Human and Animal Nutrition and Health that was published in JoF

This book explores the rapidly changing seaweed industry in Indonesia, the largest global producer of carrageenan-bearing seaweeds.

Seaweed production in Indonesia has grown exponentially over the last twenty years, and rural communities across…

Groundwater beneath cities is important. Water utilities and private abstractors use is it as a secure source of water-supply and municipal authorities have to cope with it when planning sanitation and using underground space for building and…