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- FAO Releases Positive Environmental Report on Dairy
- FAO assesses the impact of the dairy sector on climate change and reveals new opportunities to reduce emissions
- Questions and Answers on the FAO report “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector”
- FAO report “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector”
- IDF launches a new template to encourage online submissions for a sustainable dairy industry
- IDF reiterates its commitment towards environmental protection
- A sustainable dairy in a protected environment
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Dairy Agenda for Action
- Statement of Commitment
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Questions and Answers
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The Global Dairy Agenda for Action
- What is the Global Dairy Agenda for Action?
- What are the Global Dairy Agenda for Action commitments?
- Who are the organisations signing the Global Dairy Agenda for Action?
- Why is the Global Dairy Agenda for Action being implemented now?
- What are the targets for reduced emissions?
- What is the role of policy makers and stakeholders?
- When will progress be reported?
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The Global Dairy Agenda for Action
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Green Paper
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Emissions reductions
- Agricultural emissions research
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Optimising animal feeding
- Developing management tools: feed rations - Sweden
- Locally grown feed - Sweden
- Emissions reductions - Greece
- Impact of Dairy Reform on Emissions - Israel
- Paying a premium for grazing - CONO Cheesemakers (Kaasmakers), the Netherlands
- Feed supply; reducing emissions - CONO Kassmakers, the Netherlands
- Emissions reductions – on farm: Less emissions per kilogram of milk solids
- Air, noise and GHG emission reductions - Australia
- Borba Dairy - California - USA
- Improved herd feeding
- Breeding of forage grasses and legumes to enhance the sustainability of grassland agriculture in the UK
- Sustainable oat production – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap trialling new technology – United Kingdom
- Valio research on emissions reductions - Finland
- Improving productivity and reducing emissions - India
- Optimising use of fertilisers and animal feeding - Colombia
- Optimising animal feed and use of fertilisers - Colombia
- Optimising animal feed and use of fertilisers - Colombia
- Implementing Silvopasture systems - Colombia
- Feed seed business: A viable option for dairy farmers - Ethiopia
- Building commercial relationships between input suppliers and forage producers - Madagascar
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Atlantic Program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Quebec Program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Ontario Program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Western Canada Project
- Feeding efficiency - Colombia
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Optimising use of fertilisers
- Optimisation of fertilizers’ use and manure and slurry management - France
- Emissions reductions - Greece
- Impact of Dairy Reform on Emissions - Israel
- Emissions reductions – on farm: Less emissions per kilogram of milk solids
- Managing emissions of nitrogen - United Kingdom
- Farmyard manure and slurry use on clover swards – United Kingdom
- Silvopastoriles (planting trees and use of fertilisers) - Nicaragua
- Optimising use of fertilisers - Colombia
- Optimising use of fertilisers and animal feeding - Colombia
- Optimising animal feed and use of fertilisers - Colombia
- Las cooperativas lácteas de Argentina están comprometidas con una producción ambientalmente sostenible
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Optimising manure management
- Emissions reductions - Greece
- Impact of Dairy Reform on Emissions - Israel
- Emissions reductions – on farm: Less emissions per kilogram of milk solids
- Rod and Libby Swan- Western Victoria - Australia
- Borba Dairy - California - USA
- Vrieze Farms - Wisconsin - USA
- Foster Brothers Farm - Vermont - USA
- Green Mountain Dairy - Vermont - USA
- Manure handling solutions
- GB dairy farmer funded Research and Development – United Kingdom
- Farmyard manure and slurry use on clover swards – United Kingdom
- Optimising manure management - Colombia
- Effluent management - Chile
- Mikhail Molchanov, Farm “Dmitrova Gora”(The Tver region, Russia)
- Gladilin Vladimir Farm “Agrosouse” Mordovia, Russia
- Kutuzov Irakli Farm “Prostor”(the Riazan region, Russia)
- Avoiding water pollution through efficent manure management in East Java
- Instalación de Digestor anaeróbico para el tratamiento de los residuos y producción de energía en tambo existente en Estación Experimental Agropecuaria de Rafaela - Argentina
- Las cooperativas lácteas de Argentina están comprometidas con una producción ambientalmente sostenible
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Reducing nutrient run-off (leaching)
- Errol and Paul Teese Beaudesert - Queensland, Australia
- Farming in practice - Vaughan and Megan Templeton, Southland, New Zealand
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Milk Roadmap nutrient planning – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap manure management plans – United Kingdom
- Improving farm environmental performance - Uruguay
- Improving soil management
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Optimising farm management
- Industry fact sheets – United Kingdom
- Dairy Farm Achievements – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap pollution incidents – United Kingdom
- Producción Limpia (PML) - Colombia
- Best farming practices – South Africa
- Farm management practices – South Africa
- Developing best practice – South Africa
- Farming in South Africa
- Sistemas silvipastoris – Minas Gerais, Brasil
- Developing the dairy industry - Paraguay
- Developing the dairy industry - Ukraine
- Increasing incomes for rural dairy farmers in Malawi
- Herd Management and Farm Economics
- Improving milk quality in East Java Province
- SAI - Nestlé : Elimination of Antibiotic Residues from Milk
- Implementing best farming practices in Chile's dairy
- Putting agricultural know-how to work for sustainable and competitive Chinese milk
- Las cooperativas lácteas de Argentina están comprometidas con una producción ambientalmente sostenible
- Reducing GHG in on our Dairy Farms - Canada
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Others
- Carbon storage in soils - France
- CO2 levy - Switzerland
- Environment protection plan: agricultural aspects - Iran
- Ben&Jerry’s and CONO’s Caring Dairy Program – the Netherlands
- Tools for Dairying Change: mitigating GHG emissions and adapting to climate change - Australia
- Bega Environment Management System (BEMS) - Australia
- ‘Cool Coastal Cows’ - Caring for Our Country Program
- Web based mapping tool: eFarmer - Australia
- Dairy Feed Systems - USA
- Cow of the Future – USA
- Dairy Power: anaerobic technologies – USA
- Dairy Power Underground: capture of methane emissions - USA
- Desktop review of greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming - United Kingdom
- Silviopasture Systems: Reserva Natural El Hatico - Colombia
- Alcock, JE, BJ, RJ, and R - Crystal Brook
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Energy efficiency
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On-farm energy use in milking and refrigeration
- Optimisation of the performance of tractor engines - France
- Energy efficiency - Greece
- Creating an energy-neutral chain of production – The Netherlands
- Renewable energy: cradle to processing – The Netherlands
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Haubenschild Farms – Minnesota, USA
- Hardie Farms - New York, USA
- Green Mountain Dairy – Vermont, USA
- Crave Brothers Farm and Farmstead Cheese - Wisconsin, USA
- Pioneer farmer powers dairy with slurry biogas - United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap anaerobic digestion – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap improving energy efficiency – United Kingdom
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Optimised processing
- Cogeneration: increase of energy efficiency - France
- Energy efficiency - Greece
- Long-Term Agreements on energy Efficiency (LTA) – The Netherlands
- Creating an energy-neutral chain of production – The Netherlands
- Renewable energy: cradle to processing – The Netherlands
- Energy savings - processing
- Biogas engine project - Australia
- Electrical energy – Australian examples
- Thermal energy – Australian examples
- Energy recovery from waste stream - Australia
- Reducing energy requirements - Australia
- Wood waste to generate energy - Australia
- Ohio plant cut refrigeration energy use by 25 percent while improving system productivity - USA
- Ohio plant lowers energy use while increasing safety and productivity - USA
- Wisconsin dairy realizes water, chemical and energy savings - USA
- Optimized processing and distribution
- Saving Energy and Money - United Kingdom
- Anaerobic digester at BV Dairy – United Kingdom
- Optimising heat transfer and regeneration - Canada
- Efforts to reduce CO2 – South Korea
- Dairy Processing - Zambia
- Energy efficiency: Glanbia - USA
- Energy efficiency: Glanbia - Ireland
- Energy Efficient Agreement – Royal FrieslandCampina
- Non-contact Cooling - Canada
- Reduction of cleaning times (OptiCIP+)
- GHG emission reductions by switching boiler fuel
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Investing in renewable energy
- Management of greenhouse gas emission quota - France
- Use of renewable energy in plants - France
- Israel – biogas facilities
- Long-Term Agreements on energy Efficiency (LTA) – The Netherlands
- Creating an energy-neutral chain of production – The Netherlands
- Renewable energy: cradle to processing – The Netherlands
- Energy savings - processing
- Biogas engine project - Australia
- Reducing energy requirements - Australia
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Haubenschild Farms – Minnesota, USA
- Hardie Farms - New York, USA
- Green Mountain Dairy – Vermont, USA
- Crave Brothers Farm and Farmstead Cheese - Wisconsin, USA
- Oakhurst Dairy taps solar energy and hot water recovery - USA
- Investing in renewable energy
- Pioneer farmer powers dairy with slurry biogas - United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap anaerobic digestion – United Kingdom
- Steam from biomass: wood-chip heat power station - Germany
- Renewable Energy - Finland
- Investing in renewable energy - Colombia
- Investing in renewable energy - Colombia
- Biogas (and organic fertiliser) initiative: Parana, Brasil
- Mrs. Rutere’s biogas story: double benefit from dairying for Embu Dairy Cooperative Society - Kenya
- Biogas - produced by milk suppliers
- Environmental benchmarking
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Others
- Impact of cow feed on GHG emissions - France
- Experimental farm of AgroParisTech school: Grignon Energie Positive - France
- Analyses of direct energy consumption in dairy farm buildings - France
- Individual energy diagnoses of farms (DIATERRE) - France
- Assistance in investments for energy savings on dairy farms - France
- Use of renewable energies - France
- FAEP (Farm Energy Audit Program) - USA
- D-CREE: Dairy Processor Carbon Reduction through energy efficiency - USA
- CIP (Clean in Place) - USA
- Non-thermal Ultra-Violet Processing - USA
- Arizona: Shamrock Farms switches to LED lighting - USA
- Marks and Spencer is hot on efficient refrigeration – United Kingdom
- Milk collection initiative: Santa Caterina, Brasil
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On-farm energy use in milking and refrigeration
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Transport efficiency
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Optimised milk collections
- Milk collection initiative: Santa Caterina, Brasil
- Facilitating Business Development Linkages that work - Zambia
- Milk Collection Centers - Zambia
- Fresh milk collection for Nestlé Uzbekistan
- East African Dairy Development Project (EADD)
- Eastern Dairies unites cooperatives and improves market - Uganda
- Transport efficiencies: Gooding, Idaho - USA
- Opportunities for reduction of fuel use: preliminary study - France
- Optimization of milk collection - France
- Optimization of collecting equipments - France
- Transport efficiency - Greece
- Transport efficiency: milk collection and transport of finished product to port – New Zealand
- E-SMART (Environmentally Sustainable Methods for Achieving Responsible Transportation) - USA
- VDM-SACHKUNDE für den Milchsammelwagenfahrer - Germany
- Milk collection - Finland
- Milk collection - Nicaragua
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Optimised product distribution
- Optimization of logistics for end products - France
- Transport efficiency - Greece
- Transport efficiency: milk collection and transport of finished product to port – New Zealand
- E-SMART (Environmentally Sustainable Methods for Achieving Responsible Transportation) - USA
- Optimized product distribution
- BV Dairy cuts transport emissions with greener engines – United Kingdom
- Optimised engine performance and driver training
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Optimised milk collections
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Reduction in loss of milk
- Shelf life improvements for fresh products
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Working with retailers and consumers to reduce household waste
- A package’s main purpose is to save and protect the food inside until it is consumed
- Reduction in loss of milk and milk products - Greece
- Make the public aware of the advantage of selective sorting of household waste - France
- Reducing household food waste – United Kingdom
- Replanting nature program- Canada
- Promote Recycling Waste for a Sustainable Society
- Energy capture from waste product
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Resource efficiency
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Increase recycling of packaging
- Recycling of empty packages from hygiene products used on dairy farms - France
- Recycling of end product packaging - France
- Resource efficiency - Greece
- Packaging efficiencies - Australia
- Packaging improvements - Australia
- Recycling of cardboard - Australia
- Use packaging with the lowest environmental impact
- Increase recycling of packaging
- Dairy Crest chases 5,000 tonne reduction in milk packaging waste – United Kingdom
- Milk Link launches recycled cheese packaging – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap recycling of plastics – United Kingdom
- Reducing use of plastics - Canada
- ‘Just for You!’ – Agropur, Canada
- 4L Natrel milk packaging: Agropur - Canada
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Use of packaging with the lowest environmental impact
- Limit packaging at source: eco-conception - France
- Resource efficiency - Greece
- Packaging efficiencies - Australia
- Packaging improvements - Australia
- Use packaging with the lowest environmental impact
- Increase recycling of packaging
- Sustainable sourcing of raw material
- Carbon Trust accreditation for Arla Foods UK
- Dairy Crest chases 5,000 tonne reduction in milk packaging waste – United Kingdom
- Milk Link launches recycled cheese packaging – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap recycling of plastics – United Kingdom
- Reducing use of plastics - Canada
- Making Glass Milk Bottle Lighter with Improved Reusability
- Environmentally friendly container designed for renewed ‘Yakult Joa’
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Increase recovery of waste
- Make the public aware of the advantage of selective sorting of household waste - France
- Resource efficiency - Greece
- Packaging efficiencies - Australia
- Packaging improvements - Australia
- Recycling to reduce landfill - Australia
- Prairieland Dairy – Nebraska, USA
- Dean Foods Company – Texas, USA
- Zero waste to landfill – United Kingdom
- Increase recovery of waste - Colombia
- New and Improved Processes and Products:Case-Less Milk Jug Technology
- As regards packaging - Lactalis
- Implementation of the European Packaging Directive – Royal Friesland Campina
- Reducing solid waste and supporting reuse and recycling - Canada
- Reduce wastes out of dairy factories and improve resources efficiency
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Increase recycling of packaging
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Life cycle analysis and management
- Tool for the evaluation of on-farm GHG emission (GESTIM) - France
- Realization of On-farm Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - France
- Life Cycle Assessment and Management - France
- Participating in and supporting research - Sweden
- Environment Protection Agency: General program for 2010 to 2013 - Iran
- Life cycle analysis and Management - Greece
- Carbon footprint analysis and GHG research – New Zealand
- Bega Cheese Limited - Australia
- D-CREE: Dairy Processor Carbon Reduction through energy efficiency - USA
- LCA: Dairy Delivery Systems - USA
- LCA – Tetra Pak experience
- Project: greening the supply chain – United Kingdom
- DLG Certificate "Sustainable Agriculture – Fit for the Future" certificate - Germany
- Desktop review of greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming - United Kingdom
- Consistent approach to carbon foot printing on dairy farms – United Kingdom
- Environmental Plan for Dairy Farming (EPDF) – United Kingdom
- Calculating GHG emissions in the dairy sector – SAI Platform
- Milk Roadmap Environmental Stewardship – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap carbon footprinting –United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap annual sustainability report – United Kingdom
- VDM-Leitfaden Umweltschutz und Stand der Molkereitechnik - Germany
- Environment policy - Canada
- Seoul Dairy Company – South Korea
- Silvopastoral Systems, Brasil
- Sustainability Opportunities within the Dairy Sector
- Darigold’s Sustainability Journey
- NDA – DARIGOLD CORPORATE MEASURE
- Key Darigold Sustainability Initiatives
- Climate, Nature and Responsibility: Arla Foods
- At an environmental level - Lactalis
- Safety and environment policies – Royal FrieslandCampina
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Other areas
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Cow of the Future
- Progress has been considerable! - USA
- Impact of cow feed on GHG emissions - France
- New Zealand Research Objective: decrease total agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases by 10% per unit of output in 2013 relative to 2004
- Cow of the future – USA
- The Israeli Dairy Cow
- Danone Linus Project : How to reduce menthaneric cows CO2 emission.
- Dairy Futures CRC - Australia
- Future Dairy - Australia
- The cow of the future: Australian research
- Projects in the national Reducing Emissions from Livestock Research Program - Australia
- United Kingdom - First Milk tackles cows’ diets
- Breeding of forage grasses and legumes to enhance the sustainability of grassland agriculture in the UK
- ‘Farming Futures’ – United Kingdom
- The 4 sources of GHG emissions in a dairy farms
- Reducing GHG emissions by increases in production efficiency - Brasil
- Methane mitigation strategies
- Current research – International collaboration
- Climate Change Central: Canadian Dairy System
- United States: Programs and Scientist Correspondence
- Whole farm systems analysis of greenhouse gas emission abatement strategies for dairy farms - Australia
- Research: reducing dairy emissions - Australia
- ‘Milch animals of the future’ - India
- Reporting of GHG emissions
- Abatement Strategies
- Animal health and welfare
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Bio-diversity
- Chris and Vicki Bell Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Michael and Dawn Waite Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Graeme Mabin Gippsland, Australia
- Jill, Ian and Amy Williams Parawa, South Australia
- Joanna and Paul McCarthy, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
- D'Arcy Family Trust - "Daisybank"
- Protection of bio-diversity and environmental education initiated by private enterprise
- Country, Industry Association and Company Profiles
- Food safety and security
- Testimonials
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Social and economic impacts
- Besancon Farms Inc. - Ohio
- Milk Roadmap farm health plans – United Kingdom
- Malawi Dairy Development Alliance Program USAID/Malawi
- Copperbelt Province turned into a “Milk Mining-belt” - Zambia
- Food for Peace Project - Zambia
- Kenya Dairy Development Program (KDDP)
- Creating a more stable supply of milk - Nepal
- Providing training and advice – El Salvador
- Agricultural training and building a livestock asset base – Ghana and Honduras
- Nestlé Maroc - Corporate Social Activities in Milk Sourcing
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Farmer profiles
- Wilco Hilhorst
- Nico and Jolande Spinhoven
- Thom and Jasmien Vlooswijk
- Herman and Anja de Ridder
- Ronald and Nancy Vermeer
- Rod and Libby Swan- Western Victoria - Australia
- Graeme Mabin Gippsland, Australia
- Kym and Kate Bartlett - South Australia
- Graham and Theresa Bourke - Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
- Errol and Paul Teese Beaudesert - Queensland, Australia
- Jill, Ian and Amy Williams Parawa, South Australia
- Farming in practice - Vaughan and Megan Templeton, Southland, New Zealand
- Joanna and Paul McCarthy, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
- Chris and Vicki Bell Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Michael and Dawn Waite - Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Borba Dairy - California - USA
- Haubenschild Farms – Minnesota, USA
- Prairieland Dairy – Nebraska, USA
- Vrieze Farms - Wisconsin - USA
- Besancon Farms Inc. - Ohio
- Hardie Farms - New York, USA
- River Haven Farm - New York, USA
- D'Arcy Family Trust - "Daisybank"
- PE & SL Balfour - "Malmani"
- Alcock, JE, BJ, RJ, and R - Crystal Brook
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Cow of the Future
- Green Paper Search Engine
- Guidance for submissions to the Green Paper
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Emissions reductions
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Fact Sheets
- Science-based factsheets
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Organizations' factsheets
- The International Dairy Federation (IDF)
- Pan American Dairy Federation (FEPALE)
- Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform
- Global Dairy Platform (GDP)
- International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)
- European Dairy Association (EDA)
- Eastern and Southern African Dairy Association (ESADA)
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Scientific Publications
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IDF Publications
- Bulletin of the IDF n° 436/2009 “Environmental / Ecological Impact of the Dairy Sector”
- Bulletin of the IDF n° 422/2007 Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Farm and Manufacturing Levels
- Bulletin of the IDF n° 401/2005 Energy use in Dairy Processing
- Bulletin of the IDF n° 398/2005 Guide on Life Cycle Assessment towards Sustainability in the Dairy Chain
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Other references
- A life cycle comparison of alternative cheese packages
- Product chain actors’ potential for greening the product life cycleThe case of Swedish postfarm milk chain
- Life cycle assessment of conventional and organic milk production in the Netherlands
- Environmental impact of the sustitution of imported soybean meal with locally-produced rapeseed meal in dairy cow feed
- Influence of recycling rate increase of aseptic carton for long-life milk on GWP reduction
- Environmental impacts of a Japanese dairy farming system using whole-crop rice silage as evaluated by life cycle assessment
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