Sentence examples for feed scarcity from inspiring English sources

In Ethiopia, for instance, effective interventions that can address feed scarcity which limits the productivity and profitability of livestock production can lead to improved pastoral livelihoods.

The present study confirms that drought-induced feed scarcity has worsened the vulnerability of cattle to the impacts of droughts (Angassa and Oba 2007).

Production and conservation of forages, including crop residues, for feeding during periods of feed scarcity, is an ages-old practice in virtually all livestock producing systems of the world (Ndathi et al. 2011).

Similarly, others (Feye 2007; Abebe et al. 2011) have shown that the traditional system of resource management (i.e., mobility) is an adaptive and coping strategy developed by pastoral societies to overcome the problem of feed scarcity and limited access to water in arid environments.

Respondents further felt that due to the impact of feed scarcity, the body conditions of livestock were emaciated and eventually resulted in reduced milk production and the quality of animals for sale where pastoral households become more vulnerable to food insecurity and other risks.

Since, the feeding of UMLD along with 1000 g wheat straw per 100 kg body weight resulted in minimal body weight loss, it can be practiced as potential survival feed during feed scarcity without any adverse impact on the performance of buffalo calves during revival period.

In a consumer culture that feeds on scarcity and exclusivity, maintaining a low profile may be the surest way to draw a crowd.

Politics and business feed into a scarcity of coverage, too, which has already been explored on this blog.

"It is possible to reduce water scarcity, feed people, and address poverty, but the key trade-off is with the environment".

The pull and push factors or stimuli-response (Asse et al. 2010) are based on human migration dynamics that positive socio-economic, environmental and socio-political factors 'pull' transhumant herders towards a particular area and in parallel manner, negative factors such as feed and water scarcity, civil strife, 'push' transhumant herders out of a particular area.

With all the issues related to food scarcity and animal feed, these substrates open many challenges for the fermentation industry and have unwrapped another possibility for another undeveloped feedstock substrate such as oil palm frond (OPF) juice.