Integrated crop–livestock–bioenergy system brings co-benefits and trade-offs in mitigating the environmental impacts of Chinese agriculture

Coupling of crop and livestock production can reduce the agricultural GHG emission from smallholder farms

“…Monte Carlo simulations are widely used to assess the uncertainty of LCA. 56 , 57 The sample size of the Monte Carlo simulation in this study is 5000. The mean of the simulated results was 179.10 kgCO2eq/100 USD with a 95% confidence interval (173.62 kgCO2eq/100 USD, 184.50 kgCO2eq/100 USD).…”

Sustainable Blue Foods from Rice–Animal Coculture Systems

“…Monte Carlo analyses were conducted using Oracle Crystal Ball Software to estimate the uncertainty of potential impacts of coculture promotion with respect to GHG emissions, land use, protein production, and economic benefits. For Monte Carlo analysis ( n = 10,000), random values were generated for most variables with probabilities following a triangular distribution with the likeliest equal to the estimated value and the minimum and maximum set as −10 and +10%, respectively, varied from the baseline following previous studies, − except for the carbon footprint of meat, land use intensity, economic gains, and protein output. For these variables, their random values were generated from a normal distribution (see Supporting Figures 8 and 9), with mean and standard deviation based on the meta-analysis results.…”

Simultaneous determination of 27 pesticides in corn and cow matrices by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

“…3,4 In China, the annual consumption of corn forage is about 200 million tons, and the production of stover reaches 800 million tons. 5 However, pesticides can contaminate and damage livestock products during the control of crop pests and diseases. [6][7][8][9] Several studies have found residues of indoxacarb, metribuzin, propamocarb, 10 diquat, lcyhalothrin and 3-phenoxybenzoic acid (3-PBA), pirimicarb and desmethyl-formamido pirimicarb, paclobutrazol, quizalofop-pethyl, metolachlor, other organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), hexachlorocyclohexane (HCHs), cypermethrin, and dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) 11,12 in corn seed samples.…”