Sökning: "Agriculture and Food Sciences"

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  1. 6. The Impact of Oat and Fruit Consumption on Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Livsmedelsteknik och nutrition (master)

    Författare :Johanna Margaretha Schilder; [2023]
    Nyckelord :short-chain fatty acids; SCFAs; diet; gas chromatography; serum; mice; applied nutrition and food chemistry; Agriculture and Food Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This study explored the importance of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in maintaining gut health and how different diets affect their levels. Blood plasma and serum samples from mice subjected to two intervention studies on oats and fruits were analysed to determine SCFA concentrations. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Odlad motståndskraft - Urban odling som ett verktyg för resiliens?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Författare :Maja Levin; [2023]
    Nyckelord :urban agriculture; communicative planning; resilience; Malmö stad; urban planning; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The highly increased food prices in 2022–2023 are one of many crises that have and will affect different parts of the world on local bases. This prompts the need to strengthen resilience for humans to ease the negative effects and be able to bounce back from these critical events. Urban agriculture could be a way. LÄS MER

  4. 8. On-farm slaughter and emergency slaughter in Sweden : prerequisites for reducing food loss of pigs and cattle

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Författare :Rasmus Björn; Albin Kauppi; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Animal welfare; Cattle; Mortality; On-farm slaughter; On-farm emergency slaughter; Pigs;

    Sammanfattning : Although consumers are responsible for much food waste, recent studies have shown significant losses on farm-level. A recent report published by the Swedish Board of Agriculture presented that 3% and 8% of pigs and cattle are lost respectively, requesting further research regarding the potential in salvaging meat through on-farm slaughter (OFS) and on-farm emergency slaughter (OFES). LÄS MER

  5. 9. Dog owner knowledge and attitudes towards oral vaccination : a field study on canine rabies in Lao PDR

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Författare :Elsa Holmström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :canines; zoonoses; vaccine prevention; vaccine preferences;

    Sammanfattning : Rabies is a fatal viral disease causing around 59,000 deaths each year worldwide. Out of all deaths, 95% occur in Africa and Asia. In Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) rabies is endemic with dogs being the main virus reservoir. All mammals can be infected by the rabies virus but up to 99% of human rabies cases are transmitted by dogs. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Creation as Resistance: How small-scale farmers and food artisans collaboratively respond to the global food system by recultivating a traditional rye variety in Northeast Germany

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Leo Baumgärtner; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how small-scale farmers and food artisans in Germany are impacted by and respond to the pressures of the global food system. It is based on the in-depth analysis of a case study of a recultivation effort of the traditional rye variety ‘Mecklenburger Marienroggen’ in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Northeast Germany. LÄS MER