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"How do we achieve food security for a global population now in excess of 7 billion people and trending towards 10 billion by 2050? As our eco-footprint increases it is difficult to balance our needs with those of animals and the environment. This study of the global dairy industry provides a telling story of the issues involved. Are the multi-thousand mega-dairies of the USA, which are increasingly evident elsewhere, more climate friendly than traditional farms? Is it ethical to keep cows confined in this way - which involves the use of confined animal feeding operation (CAFOs), high stocking density, unnatural high-energy/low fibre diets of totally mixed rations (TMR), hormones for estrus stimulation, GMO hormone for milk yield, leading to stress, depleted immune systems and drastically shortened lives of the cows. What are the implications for rural communities? Bruce Scholten's book will offer an in-depth and detailed discussion of the central and ancillary issues relevant to dairy farming and consumption in the 21st century, presenting the arguments of all sides involved. No book to date offers such a comprehensive overview, linking ethics, environment, health and policy-making with in-depth coverage of the major dairy farming regions of the world."--
Dairy farming --- Dairy products industry --- Environmental aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects.
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As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security. 'Operation Flood', which revitalised the Indian dairy industry between 1970 and 1996, was the world's largest development programme, however critics accused it of luring India to neocolonial dependence on European surpluses. Eventually the perils of reliance on food aid were managed by proper pricing policies that both benefited rural farming families and wiped out urban 'milk famines'. In 2008 the World Bank hailed the programme's s
Development aid. Development cooperation --- Third World: agricultural and food problems --- India --- Agriculture and state -- India. --- Dairying, Cooperative -- India. --- Economic assistance, European -- India. --- Food supply -- India -- International cooperation. --- Operation Flood Project (India). --- Agriculture and state --- Dairying, Cooperative --- Food supply --- Economic assistance, European --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- Economic History --- International cooperation --- International cooperation. --- Operation Flood Project (India) --- Economic development --- European economic assistance --- Food control --- Cooperative dairying --- Dairy cooperatives --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- India. --- Developing countries: agricultural and food problems
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