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Machine Learning in Agriculture: A Review Open
Machine learning has emerged with big data technologies and high-performance computing to create new opportunities for data intensive science in the multi-disciplinary agri-technologies domain. In this paper, we present a comprehensive rev…
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Global trends in antimicrobial resistance in animals in low- and middle-income countries Open
Livestock antibiotic resistance Most antibiotic use is for livestock, and it is growing with the increase in global demand for meat. It is unclear what the increase in demand for antibiotics means for the occurrence of drug resistance in a…
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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition Open
Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion and intensification. Food systems, however, face continued in…
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Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice Open
Global agricultural feeds over 7 billion people, but is also a leading cause of environmental degradation. Understanding how alternative agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice drive environmental de…
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The European Union One Health 2019 Zoonoses Report Open
This report of the EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control presents the results of zoonoses monitoring activities carried out in 2019 in 36 European countries (28 Member States (MS) and eight non-MS). The first and …
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The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human–Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare Open
Throughout its 25-year history, the Five Domains Model for animal welfare assessment has been regularly updated to include at each stage the latest authenticated developments in animal welfare science thinking. The domains of the most up-t…
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Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife–Livestock–Human Interface Open
Urbanization is characterized by rapid intensification of agriculture, socioeconomic change, and ecological fragmentation, which can have profound impacts on the epidemiology of infectious disease. Here, we review current scientific eviden…
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Bat Coronaviruses in China Open
During the past two decades, three zoonotic coronaviruses have been identified as the cause of large-scale disease outbreaks–Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndro…
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Bringing cultured meat to market: Technical, socio-political, and regulatory challenges in cellular agriculture Open
Cultured meat is a promising, but early stage, technology with key technical challenges including cell source, culture media, mimicking the in-vivo myogenesis environment, animal-derived and synthetic materials, and bioprocessing for comme…
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Impact of heat stress on health and performance of dairy animals: A review Open
Sustainability in livestock production system is largely affected by climate change. An imbalance between metabolic heat production inside the animal body and its dissipation to the surroundings results to heat stress (HS) under high air t…
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Building a livestock genetic and genomic information knowledgebase through integrative developments of Animal QTLdb and CorrDB Open
Successful development of biological databases requires accommodation of the burgeoning amounts of data from high-throughput genomics pipelines. As the volume of curated data in Animal QTLdb (https://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb) increases e…
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Agricultural wastes are non-product outputs of production and processing of agricultural products that may contain material that can benefit man but whose economic values are less than the cost of collection, transportation, and processing…
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Genomic selection: A paradigm shift in animal breeding Open
Traditional marker-assisted selection (MAS) did not result in a widespread use of DNA information in animal breeding. The main reason was that the traits of interest in livestock production were much more complex than expected: they were d…
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Potential and challenges of tannins as an alternative to in-feed antibiotics for farm animal production Open
Naturally occurring plant compounds including tannins, saponins and essential oils are extensively assessed as natural alternatives to in-feed antibiotics. Tannins are a group of polyphenolic compounds that are widely present in plant regi…
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Antibiotic resistance genes from livestock waste: occurrence, dissemination, and treatment Open
Antibiotics are widely used in animal husbandry, and various types of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are frequently detected in livestock waste around the world. Conventional livestock waste treatment processes do not completely remove…
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What is the impact of COVID-19 disease on agriculture? Open
The different pandemics that humanity has experienced, such as the Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu, HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola and Swine Flu, have had a great impact on the economy, the environment and any human activity, such as livestoc…
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Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system Open
Losses at every stage in the food systeminfluence the extent towhich nutritional requirements of a growing global population can be sustainablymet. Inefficiencies and losses in agricultural production and consumer behaviour all play a role…
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Addressing Global Ruminant Agricultural Challenges Through Understanding the Rumen Microbiome: Past, Present, and Future Open
The rumen is a complex ecosystem composed of anaerobic bacteria, protozoa, fungi, methanogenic archaea and phages. These microbes interact closely to breakdown plant material that cannot be digested by humans, whilst providing metabolic en…
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Livestock and climate change: impact of livestock on climate and mitigation strategies Open
Introduction: According to the United Nations (UN, 2017), the world population increased by approximately 1 billion inhabitants during the last 12 years, reaching nearly 7.6 billion in 2017. Although this growth is slower than 10 years ago…
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Insects as food and feed, a new emerging agricultural sector: a review Open
During the last five years the scientific knowledge on insects as food and feed has been growing exponentially. At the same time, the industrial sector is increasingly engaged in rearing, processing and marketing of edible insects. Conside…
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The application of antibiotics in broiler production and the resulting antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli: A global overview Open
The increase in antibiotic resistance is a global concern for human and animal health. Resistant microorganisms can spread between food-producing animals and humans. The objective of this review was to identify the type and amount of antib…
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Antimicrobial resistance: One Health approach Open
In this research, a review of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is conducted as part of the One Health approach. A review of publications, which included "antimicrobial resistance" and "One Health," was conducted. Among the global health prob…
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China’s livestock transition: Driving forces, impacts, and consequences Open
After significant increases in livestock productivity, China now needs to improve efficiency and environmental performance.
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General introduction to precision livestock farming Open
Many people in several countries worldwide, particularly in Asia, India, and South America, are getting more financial possibilities to buy animal protein. This fact, combined with the changing diets of these people in those countries, wil…
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The animal trypanosomiases and their chemotherapy: a review Open
SUMMARY Pathogenic animal trypanosomes affecting livestock have represented a major constraint to agricultural development in Africa for centuries, and their negative economic impact is increasing in South America and Asia. Chemotherapy an…
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High-resolution ammonia emissions inventories in China from 1980 to 2012 Open
Ammonia (NH3) can interact in the atmosphere with other trace chemical species, which can lead to detrimental environmental consequences, such as the formation of fine particulates and ultimately global climate change. China is a major agr…
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The Seed of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.): Nutritional Quality and Potential Functionality for Human Health and Nutrition Open
Hempseeds, the edible fruits of the Cannabis sativa L. plant, were initially considered a by-product of the hemp technical fibre industry. Nowadays, following the restorationing of the cultivation of C. sativa L. plants containing an amoun…
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Invited review: Current production trends, farm structures, and economics of the dairy sheep and goat sectors Open
Dairy small ruminants account for approximately 21% of all sheep and goats in the world, produce around 3.5% of the world's milk, and are mainly located in subtropical-temperate areas of Asia, Europe, and Africa. Dairy sheep are concentrat…
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Global trends in antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: 2020 to 2030 Open
Use of antimicrobials in farming has enabled the growth of intensive animal production and helped in meeting the global increase in demand for animal protein. However, the widespread use of veterinary antimicrobials drives antimicrobial re…
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Bringing the Animal QTLdb and CorrDB into the future: meeting new challenges and providing updated services Open
The Animal QTLdb (https://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb) and CorrDB (https://www.animalgenome.org/CorrDB) are unique resources for livestock animal genetics and genomics research which have been used extensively by the international livestock…