The Relevance of Livestock Husbandry in the Context of Food Security: A Bibliometric Outlook of Research Studies from 1938 to 2020
- Idamokoro, Monday Emrobowansan
- Authors: Idamokoro, Monday Emrobowansan
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: Livestock , Scientometric analysis , Nutrition security , Vulnerable persons , Bibliometrics , Food security
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/14157 , vital:79147 , DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1204221
- Description: The present study aimed to report knowledge-based outcomes on global studies of livestock farming as a tool to address food security, while considering the recurring problems caused by malnutrition and hunger among vulnerable persons, especially in developing countries. A total of 2,012 scientific peer reviewed studies were retrieved in BibTeX design for analysis using bibliometric collections in R studio software. The results obtained from the software included among others, authors, keywords plus, citations, collaborations, affiliations, journals, countries impact and key words. Published peer-reviewed discoveries on livestock husbandry as related to food security gathered from Scopus and the Web of Science (WOS) databanks were used, with a yearly rise in knowledge-based research of 15.04% during the timespan of the investigation. The results of the investigation revealed that the United States was ranked first with an aggregate of 236 publications [including Single Country Publications (SCP) = 225 and Multiple Country Publications (MCP) = 11] and had a huge international scientific effect with the highest article citations (n = 9,138). The most frequently used authors’ keywords in the present research niche area were food security (n = 475), livestock (n = 123), agriculture (n = 100), climate change (n = 99), sustainability (n = 55), cattle (n = 40), and nutrition (n = 37), which gave a clear direction for the related research studies regarding how livestock production can be used to enhance food security. The study in consideration presented an international picture that addresses the pool of knowledge-based, peer-reviewed findings of livestock production research and its significance to food security, while providing a clue regarding further investigations in this research niche area. It is of high essence to emphasise that the current findings solely focused on prime areas of livestock production as related to food security research; thus, it is anticipated that novel empirical research work and potential scientific findings will provide novel understanding and precision to livestock husbandry as a possible instrument to tackle the challenges of food security as new discoveries emerges.
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- Date Issued: 2023
- Authors: Idamokoro, Monday Emrobowansan
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: Livestock , Scientometric analysis , Nutrition security , Vulnerable persons , Bibliometrics , Food security
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/14157 , vital:79147 , DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1204221
- Description: The present study aimed to report knowledge-based outcomes on global studies of livestock farming as a tool to address food security, while considering the recurring problems caused by malnutrition and hunger among vulnerable persons, especially in developing countries. A total of 2,012 scientific peer reviewed studies were retrieved in BibTeX design for analysis using bibliometric collections in R studio software. The results obtained from the software included among others, authors, keywords plus, citations, collaborations, affiliations, journals, countries impact and key words. Published peer-reviewed discoveries on livestock husbandry as related to food security gathered from Scopus and the Web of Science (WOS) databanks were used, with a yearly rise in knowledge-based research of 15.04% during the timespan of the investigation. The results of the investigation revealed that the United States was ranked first with an aggregate of 236 publications [including Single Country Publications (SCP) = 225 and Multiple Country Publications (MCP) = 11] and had a huge international scientific effect with the highest article citations (n = 9,138). The most frequently used authors’ keywords in the present research niche area were food security (n = 475), livestock (n = 123), agriculture (n = 100), climate change (n = 99), sustainability (n = 55), cattle (n = 40), and nutrition (n = 37), which gave a clear direction for the related research studies regarding how livestock production can be used to enhance food security. The study in consideration presented an international picture that addresses the pool of knowledge-based, peer-reviewed findings of livestock production research and its significance to food security, while providing a clue regarding further investigations in this research niche area. It is of high essence to emphasise that the current findings solely focused on prime areas of livestock production as related to food security research; thus, it is anticipated that novel empirical research work and potential scientific findings will provide novel understanding and precision to livestock husbandry as a possible instrument to tackle the challenges of food security as new discoveries emerges.
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- Date Issued: 2023
The impact of unguided animal husbandry on the peripheral and landscape elements: the case of Alice
- Chungag, Anye https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-9410
- Authors: Chungag, Anye https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-9410
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Livestock , Animal culture , Animal culture -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19511 , vital:43134
- Description: This study is based on Unguided Animal Husbandry as practiced in the town of Alice and its surrounding locations. It underscores the fact that though cattle are domesticated animals, they are still migratory in character. Their migratory tendency is prompted by the need of food and water and sometimes convenient rest positions. The search for food, water and rest may lead cattle to travel for many kilometres away from enclosure. This movement allows them to establish eating and drinking preferences and locations which become habitual, hence tracks develop along these paths which greatly compromise the soil, water and vegetation quality of the landscape. This study identifies such tracks and investigates the impact of cattle movement on soil physical properties and vegetation characteristics. However all this is against the back drop of the open access land regime; a mode of exploiting common property to which all have equal rights. It is a system of land management that comes with inherent challenges. Amongst them a selfish inclination of taking decisions that is motivated by egoistic interests and utmost personal gain. Secondly no thought is given to management and sustainability, subjecting common property to Haddins (1968) philosophy ‘The tragedy of the commons’. The results of the study show that when cattle is left to free range in common property they establish feeding, drinking and rest habits that have greater negative consequences on ecosystem elements of soil, vegetation and water than the positive effects they bring. The open access regime under which this farming system operates is appraised and recommendations proposed for its amelioration. , Thesis (MPhil) (Environmental Studies) -- University of Fort Hare, 2015
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Chungag, Anye https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-9410
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Livestock , Animal culture , Animal culture -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19511 , vital:43134
- Description: This study is based on Unguided Animal Husbandry as practiced in the town of Alice and its surrounding locations. It underscores the fact that though cattle are domesticated animals, they are still migratory in character. Their migratory tendency is prompted by the need of food and water and sometimes convenient rest positions. The search for food, water and rest may lead cattle to travel for many kilometres away from enclosure. This movement allows them to establish eating and drinking preferences and locations which become habitual, hence tracks develop along these paths which greatly compromise the soil, water and vegetation quality of the landscape. This study identifies such tracks and investigates the impact of cattle movement on soil physical properties and vegetation characteristics. However all this is against the back drop of the open access land regime; a mode of exploiting common property to which all have equal rights. It is a system of land management that comes with inherent challenges. Amongst them a selfish inclination of taking decisions that is motivated by egoistic interests and utmost personal gain. Secondly no thought is given to management and sustainability, subjecting common property to Haddins (1968) philosophy ‘The tragedy of the commons’. The results of the study show that when cattle is left to free range in common property they establish feeding, drinking and rest habits that have greater negative consequences on ecosystem elements of soil, vegetation and water than the positive effects they bring. The open access regime under which this farming system operates is appraised and recommendations proposed for its amelioration. , Thesis (MPhil) (Environmental Studies) -- University of Fort Hare, 2015
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- Date Issued: 2015
Africa‘s Heritage No.1: a definition of our terms
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Bantu , Style , Taste , Otherness , Strangeness , Familiarity , Preference , Prejudice , Tobacco farm , Poverty , Spirit , Village , Country , Subsistance economy , Women , Rags , Dress , Untidy , Disgrace , Fish , Stream , Running , Chief , Wife , Husband , Food , Meat , Fowl , Lamb , Goat , Ox , Feast , Hunger , Famine , Dogs , Greetings , Tswana , Pula , Rain , Communication , Starvation , Politics , Good manners , Cordiality , Sharing , Livestock , Sheep , Goats , Cattle , Social currency , Cattle standard , Language , Music , Dancing , Religion , Magic , Intangibles , Character , Writers , Authors , Heritage , Victorian , American , Zambia , Northern Rhodesia , Axe , Hoe , Story
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15096 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008524 , Reel number: BC126
- Description: 1st programme in the ‘Africa‘s Heritage‘ Series, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Bantu , Style , Taste , Otherness , Strangeness , Familiarity , Preference , Prejudice , Tobacco farm , Poverty , Spirit , Village , Country , Subsistance economy , Women , Rags , Dress , Untidy , Disgrace , Fish , Stream , Running , Chief , Wife , Husband , Food , Meat , Fowl , Lamb , Goat , Ox , Feast , Hunger , Famine , Dogs , Greetings , Tswana , Pula , Rain , Communication , Starvation , Politics , Good manners , Cordiality , Sharing , Livestock , Sheep , Goats , Cattle , Social currency , Cattle standard , Language , Music , Dancing , Religion , Magic , Intangibles , Character , Writers , Authors , Heritage , Victorian , American , Zambia , Northern Rhodesia , Axe , Hoe , Story
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15096 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008524 , Reel number: BC126
- Description: 1st programme in the ‘Africa‘s Heritage‘ Series, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
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