9. food and agricolture

Question 1

What’s the difference between asian and african diet?

Answer 1

West europen diet is based on animal products and african diet on cereals ( wheat maize rice)

Question 2

What’s the most consumed meat?

Answer 2

pig (china, cenrte europe)

Question 3

What is the concern about antibiotics in animal production?

Answer 3

Cyprus, Italy spain use a lot of antibiotics in their meat
It’s forbidden to give healty animal antibiotc
ex. penicillins, quinolones

Question 4

How are milk and beef conncted?

Answer 4

milk and beef production are linked. It’s more efficient to have beef from a dairy system
Beef is becoming less important but is still used a lot of lend

Question 5

Why meat consumption has increased?

Answer 5

Meat has become less expensive

Question 6

Environmental impact of meat on lands:

Answer 6

Land use has increased plus using heavy machines is deterioring the land and also waterlogging that cause innatual drainage system and last of all chemical deterioration:
loss of nutrients, salinization acidification, pollution

Question 7

Talk about the greenhouse gases from agricolture

Answer 7

N2= mostly soils (300kg CO2)
CH4= ruminants and manure (25 kg per 1 kg CH)
CO2 from fossil fuels less significant

Ruminant digestion lead to produciton of CH4 by microbial community and by breaking down the plant material

Question 8

Which are the mitigation actions for decreasing GHG from agricolture?

Answer 8

improve N utilizaion and efficiency
anaerobic digetion of manure (letame)
efficiency in productio
food additives

Question 9

N emission from agricolture

Answer 9

emission of ammonia from animals
N2O from plants and cacca
quello che si decompone fa da cerchio e nutre le piante (eutotrophication)

Question 10

What we need to consider for staying in the planet boundaries?

Answer 10

emission on GHG
biodiversity lossses
disturbance of N cycle