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Challenging strategies to promote the sheep and goat sector in the current global context
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Author: RANILLA M.J.
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Publication date: 01-2012
378 p. · 17x24 cm · Paperback
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378 p. · 17x24 cm · Paperback
Out of Print
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Small ruminant production, a traditional sector in Mediterranean
agricultural systems, is challenged by societal demands and factors that
differ from Northern to Southern and Eastern countries. European
productions face a loss of consumption of sheep and goat products, and the
low profitability rates, among other factors, are leading to a reduction
in the number of farms and animal population size. Environmental and
animal welfare concerns are also directly affecting animal production
systems, and more specifically small ruminants, which play an
irreplaceable role in the agroecosystems of which they are part. On the
other hand, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries are increasing
their demand in animal products, transforming the traditional farms to
more intensive and input dependent systems, and increasing pressures on
the pasture and soil resources. This regional context, together with
global factors such as climate change, higher demand of animal products
for human consumption and volatility of animal feed prices are calling for
an evolution where higher productivity and efficiency will have to be
compatible with the sustainability of the natural resources upon which
sheep and goat productions are based. The contribution of nutrition
science and technologies to the necessary advances will be of relevance as
nutrition significantly shapes animal production systems, both in terms of
their yield and production efficiency and of their environmental impacts.
This publication is a result of the 13th Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM
Sub-Network on Sheep and Goat Nutrition, held in León (Spain) from 14th to
16th October 2009, and contains 52 invited and selected papers presented
at the. meeting. Under the title "Challenging strategies to promote the
sheep and goat sector in the current global context", the Seminar was
jointly organized by the University of León (Spain), the Spanish National
Research Council (CSIC) and the International Centre for Advanced
Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), in collaboration with the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Seminar
covered a wide range of topics distributed in four sessions and a round
table: Strategies for sustainable production and landscape management.
Manipulation of animal behaviour and interloping of other species, Rumen
microbial ecology and metabolism in sheep and goats. Microbiome,
digestion, manipulation and welfare, Feeding strategies to improve small
ruminant production in the current global context. Global warming impact
on sheep and goat production, Nutrition parasite.
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