A5018313718- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Scientific Research and Discoveries
- Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Education Pedagogy and Practices
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies
- Livestock Farming and Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
University of Edinburgh
2015-2025
Agriculture and Food
2025
Universidade de Rio Verde
2021-2022
Edinburgh College
2020-2021
Scotland's Rural College
2015-2018
Grassland degradation compromises the profitability of Brazilian livestock production, and pasture recovery is a promising strategy for sustainable intensification agriculture (SAI). Recovery increases carbon sequestration into soil can potentially avoid deforestation; thereby reducing emissions intensity (EI), but only at increased investment cost per unit area. We develop multi-period linear programming (LP) model grazing beef production planning to represent typical Cerrado stocking...
Brazil is the first developing country to provide an absolute emissions cut as its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), seeking reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) by 37% below 2005 levels 2025 and 43% 2030. The NDC also noteworthy in focussing on from deforestation control land use change. Agricultural intensification a key component of offer, potentially allowing make credible mitigation commitments that are aligned with national development strategy halting Amazon, increasing livestock...
Carbon farming is a nature-based solution to capture atmospheric CO2 and store it as soil organic carbon (SOC). trading schemes (CFTS) incentivize farmers adopt these practices. Integral CFTS forecasting the SOC changes of individual projects, typically achieved using traditional multicompartmental models (mSCM), monitor total stocks. However, mSCM simulate unmeasurable compartments, leading overparameterization indeterminable partitioning among suggesting need for structural improvements....
Ex situ collections offer the potential to reduce extinction risks, affording option society in maintaining future breeding opportunities for productivity and heritage traits. However, how much should we be seeking collect conserve gene banks, where? We developed a mathematical model optimize logistical decisions of breed conservation choices evaluate alternative scenarios efficiently re-allocating genetic materials currently stored different European allowing cross-country collections, cost...
Summary Brazilian greenhouse gas emissions ( GHG ) are projected to reach 3.2 gigatonnes CO 2 eq.) by 2020. The government has made a voluntary commitment reduce this figure 40 per cent. A reduction in deforestation and livestock mitigation measures key components of commitment. Focusing on the Cerrado core (central Savannah), we analyse abatement potential cost‐effectiveness applicable production. We focus role intensification measures, particularly pasture restoration animal performance...
Feeding cattle with on-pasture supplementation or feedlot diets can increase animal efficiency and system profitability while minimizing environmental impacts. However, profit margins are relatively small nutrient supply accounts for most of the costs. This paper introduces a nonlinear profit-maximizing diet formulation problem beef based on well-established predictive equations. Nonlinearity in equations requirements poses methodological challenges application optimization techniques. In...
Carbon farming trading schemes (CFTS) are emerging as a nature-based solution to contribute the mitigation of climate change by capturing carbon from atmosphere and storing it in plant-soil system soil organic (SOC). Increasing SOC for CFTS requires improved management practices, monitoring through sampling measurements, ex-ante economic evaluation. The implication is that needs be quantified reliably, i.e., compatible with measurements data validation certification under CFTS....
Improvements in ex situ storage of genetic and reproductive materials offer an alternative for endangered livestock breed conservation. This paper presents a dataset current collections population 179 Spanish breeds seven species, cattle, sheep, pig, chicken, goat, horse donkey. Ex data was obtained via survey administered to 18 functioning gene banks Spain relates the (semen doses) 210 distributed across banks. In combines CENSUS information with linear regression techniques geographic...