Africa's Livestock Demand Better Feeding

Africans will have to improve the quality and quantity of what they feed their livestock to compete in the world market and reduce the industry's impact on climate change, says a new global study.

The study reveals how diet and digestion in livestock impacts climate change around the world. Scientists who conducted the study say it is the newest comprehensive assessment assembled of what cows, sheep, pigs, poultry and other farm animals are eating in different parts of the world and how efficiently they convert that feed into milk, eggs, and meat while also focusing on the amount of greenhouse gases they produce.

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