The water and land footprints of meat and milk production and consumption in Kenya: implications for sustainability and food security

Water Footprint of Animal Breeding Industry and Driving Forces at Provincial Level in China

“…The WFs of all five animal products in this study were higher than those in published studies [1,3,8,[12][13][14]. This study concluded that the total WF of animal products needs to encompass all the water consumed by animals annually.…”

“…Therefore, the national WF of animal products has recently begun to be intensively analyzed. Most of these studies analyzed the environmental impact of a single WF of animal products in developed countries [2,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. However, the WF of a single animal product has little impact on water resources for a country.…”

Water footprint of dairy production in Ethiopia : An assessment on commercial dairy farming and milk processing within a 200 km radius from Addis Ababa

“…Then, the results of the WF accounting are presented (chapter 4) followed by a validation of the findings(chapter 5). Here, a study performed in Kenya (Bosire, 2016) and another in South Africa Lastly, the results from the WF accounting gives insights to identify hot-stops for the providence of further research, trainings and policy recommendations. Here, strategic meetings and interviews, as well as a livestock, water, productivity assessment of the blue Nile basin, provided strong insights into the discussion of results and elaboration of recommendations (Haileslassie, Peden, Gebreselassie, Amede, & Descheemaeker, 2009).…”

“…Supplemental and compounded feed was further characterised as consisting of maize as the main cereal. (Bosire, 2016) Given that based on the data collection of the farms, all the feed is originated from Ethiopia itself a relation between imports and exports were not applied. The feed throughout the farms is basic a combination between roughages locally sourced -mainly hay from improved grasses -and concentrate nationally sourced -a combination of maize germ, brewery bi-product, minerals and molasses.…”