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Why holistic management?

The increased demand for meat is driven by a rising human population, and a dramatic growth in meat consumption per person. Farmers and scientists have sought to curb the adverse environmental impacts of livestock by increasing production efficiency, and reducing its contribution to human consumption. Reduction in livestock feed components, which compete with human food crop production, is one approach to mitigating negative environmental impacts and strengthening future food security.

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Featured Farm of the day

"Rindergilde Geesthacht" and "Family Farm Staggen"

The two featured farms are both based in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein - Germany’s most sparsely wooded federal state, located between the Baltic and the Northern Sea in Northwestern Germany. In 2017, both farms won an award for their well-maintained ‘Knicks’.

Bisons in a forest reserve, Poland

Olive tree silvarable-pastoral system, near Viterbo, Italy

Silvopastoral system in Poland

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Weed control at Bosques Naturales

Squashes in SRC silvoarable system

Willow silvopasture

Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry-based alley cropping

Montado + cattle

Wild asparagus in traditional olive orchard at CRA OLI Spoleto, Italy