Sustainable Dairy Production

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines. It aims to stimulate process innovations, taking into account environmental, economic and public relations benefits for companies. Topics covered include: How to set up a sustainable production lineHow to quantify the carbon foot print of a dairy product by using life cycle analysisCurrent technologies to improve the carbon foot printWhat measures can be taken to reduce the global warming potential of the farmReduction of water use in dairy productionMarketing sustainable dairy productsBench marking of dairy products against other food productsPotential future technological developments to improve the carbon foot print for the following decades