Energetic efficiency for lamb production-protein output/fossil fuel input

Value 0.5 Percent
Organism Biosphere
Reference Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin, Diet, Energy and Global Warming, Earth Interactions, Vol. 10, pp. 1-17, March 2006 Table - link
Primary Source (1) Pimentel D., and M. Pimentel, 1996a: Energy use in livestock production. In: Pimentel D., and M. Pimentel (Eds.) (1996), Food, Energy and Society, University Press of Colorado, 363 pp. (2) Pimentel D., and M. Pimentel, 1996b: Energy use in grain and legume production. In: Pimentel D., and M. Pimentel (Eds.) (1996), Food, Energy and Society, University Press of Colorado, 363 pp.
Comments See also efficiency for chicken (6.3% BNID 104638) and herring (50% BNID 104640) Table gives ratio between energetic input (fossil fuels, in kCalories) and protein output in kCalories for various foods
Entered by Uri M
ID 104639