Introduction In developing countries, livestock can be an important pathway out of poverty (FAO 2009; McDermott et al. 2010a; Rich et al. 2011). Over one billion people depend on livestock, which provide power and manure for crop production, contribute to food and nutritional security, and are a form of savings for many poor people. Livestock also make major contributions to the agricultural GD...

Landraces of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and its wild teosinte relatives (Zea mays spp. parviglumis and mexicana) were surveyed for sensitivity to fumonisin B(1), a phytotoxin produced by the maize pathogen Gibberella moniliformis. Only two of 42 Z. mays samples were highly insensitive to FB(1) (ED(50) = ca. 200 microM). The teosintes and 76% of the maize landraces were moderately or highly sens...

Arid and semi-arid lands constitute a large proportion of available agricultural and rangeland in the world. These lands are characterised by low and unreliable rainfall, low land productivity, and low socioeconomic status of the inhabitants. Livestock plays a very significant role in their economies. Leguminous trees and shrubs, which dominate the natural rangelands, are often higher in crude ...

Very few multi-species or ecosystem comparisons of post-fire vertebrate herbivore activity and food preference exist to inform fire management conservation strategies. We inferred (1–3 years) native introduced attraction six diverse temperate vegetation communities (grassland rainforest) from scat counts. hypothesised that where reduced herbaceous grassy (‘fodder’), herbivores would decline, pr...

0. Abstract Men are, on average, larger than women, with longer vocal tracts and larger vocal cords. These physical differences give men lower pitched voices with deeper vowel sounds – think of men as bassoons and women as clarinets. However, there are many more differences between women's and men's speech, and not all of them can be explained by physiological differences such as these. It was ...

Fodder maize cultivation under low mountain conditions in Central Europe presents obstacles for organic dairy farmers; temperatures and high precipitation values spring delay the juvenile development of maize, which leads to lower fluctuating yields. Increasing soil temperature during critical growth phase is beneficial cultivation. For this reason, 0.15 m ridge-row (RCM) was compared a typical...