Sustainable and Organic Livestock Farming System
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 6581
Special Issue Editors
Interests: livestock farming systems; ecological footprint; ecosystem services; agroecology
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Interests: livestock farming systems; dairy production and management; small scale farms; environmental sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainability of livestock farming systems (LFS), in relation to global concern about climate change, human growth and demand of livestock products, the quality, synergies, and trade-offs of the services that agro-ecosystems managed for livestock provide to society, has become a fundamental issue for the public and scientific debate.
This Special Issue, therefore, addresses studies that advance frameworks, concepts, and applications related to the sustainability of livestock farming systems with a particular focus (but not only) on organic systems. In specific we encourage the submission of papers on the following specific topics: i) relationships between livestock farming systems and agroecosystems; ii) value chains able to improve the global sustainability of livestock farming systems; iii) ecosystem services and sustainability assessment of livestock farming systems. We particularly welcome papers based on multidisciplinary approaches and studies aiming to identify FAIR indicators for the definition of policies and strategies to improve the sustainability of livestock farming systems.
Prof. Dr. Enrico Sturaro
Prof. Dr. Stefano Bovolenta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Livestock farming systems
- Agroecology
- Environmental footprint
- Ecosystem services
- Organic production
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