Better cowhouse

This has been developed, it's called organic farming. Cows graze outside and don't have to worry about sweating. They may go outside also in the winter if they so wish (sure, some force them out, depeding on the type of the barn). Added bonus: healthy cows, pure milk, clean environment

Yes, I agree with "Anonymous", this has already been invented and is, indeed, called organic farming.

Maybe you would like to find business ideas to promote organic farming and organic products? They are getting more and more popular worldwide and even in Finland. The selection of the products just isn't too big here yet and the prices are still pretty high.

Organic farming especially when it relates to cows and other cattle is welcomed with FAO estimating that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, a  great amount generated before the animal-kill

But Organic agriculture gives a 2-way opposing perspective

Eating fresh from your own garden is excellent.

Buying organic food and promoting it is fine.

Asking farmers in africa to keep growing organic farming is not necessarily fine.

In fact, Africa has centuries old aged indigenous farming techniques grounded on organic (such as the classical shifting cultivation and its offshoot, bush fallow or land rotation) that still prevails today at most locations. Small-sized farming yards are unsufficient to feed the almost 1 billion people to be reached soon.

Let's see the official definition of organic farming by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements: "The role of organic agriculture, whether in farming, processing, distribution, or consumption, is to sustain and enhance the health of ecosystems and organisms from the smallest in the soil to human beings."

Can we sustain the ecosystem if the farmer cultivating is not having enough to sustain his family observing from behind?

Africa is the only continent that had not had its green revolution and hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from hunger and dying on an ongoing basis.

My opinion is Africa should not be kept in that status-quo of farming but should enhance productivity with what tehcnology can offer us at its best such as plant breeding techniques.

That said, I am not encouraging the use of chemical components or intorducing GMOs. Indeed, I was sad to notice this month the UK Government endorsed a report which championed small-scale farming and traditional knowledge to be maintained and likely to be a big component of its aid to Africa. See the article Green activists 'are keeping Africa poor'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4699096.ece

Using a popular say: Good is what is right at his place and Bad is what is not at his place on the exact moment 

there is not a one-size fit all solution even in Sustainability and it should always be kept human-centric and customized to local realities

On a sharing note, they are multiple sustainable farming practices emerging or old one's being labelled, my favourite is still hydroponics (growing plants witout soil) and you can also get a look at the so-criticized and costly vertical farming 

http://greenupgrader.com/2057/vertical-farms-growing-up-sustainably/

I agree, the solutions that work in Finland can not be implemented per se in Africa, every area and culture have their "own best solutions". 

Finland could, in my opinion, put more efforts on organic farming. There's a growing need of decreasing the wastes our traditional agriculture produces as the recent statistics show:

According to the latest report by the National Audit Office of Finland (Valtion tarkastusvirasto) the amounts of phosphorus and nitrogen that the Finnish agriculture lets to the waters and our environment have not decreased at all since 1980's. That's an alarming sign, even though 28 years in ecology is not a long time-scale.

(http://www.vtv.fi/index.phtml?page_id=2&menu_id=2&topmenu_id=2&lang=1&ch...)

As you can see behind this link (http://www.matilda.fi/dev60cgi/rwcgi60?server=Rep60_sirppi&report=efsp_r...) In 2007 6 % of Finnish farms had some sort of organic production, (area-wise  1% of total farming area). 99% of farmed land still uses excess amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus

Hence, I agree on that we need new business ideas to promote alternative ways of food production. Either organic farming, vertical farming, or hydroponics. Eurofresh Farms in Arizona (http://www.eurofresh.com/), for example, is an interesting example of a company that grows tomatoes on rockwool without pestisides.

The science behind alternative ways of food production seem to exist, they should just be used more.

The words cows and sauna in one article reminds me of the pet sauna. See http://www.faunasauna.com for details.

Kevin
http://www.sauna-talk.com