Redesigning animal agriculture : the challenge of the 21st century /

• Corporate Author: Horizons in Livestock Sciences
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Livestock > Social aspects.; Livestock productivity.; Animal genetic engineering.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Mathematics and Statistics.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Agriculture.; Animal ecology.; Animal production.; Breeding methods.; Conferences.; Ecological balance.; Genetic engineering.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Genome analysis.; Genomes.; Livestock.; Socioeconomics.; Stochastic models.; Transgenic animals.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Item Description: Based on papers presented at the third Horizons in livestock sciences conference series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book comprises selected papers from the third conference in the series 'Horizons in Livestock Sciences'. The conference series was established in 2003 to provide an international forum for scientists, science managers and policy makers to explore some of the emerging science solution that will be important for future livestock production systems under the banner 'Redesigning Animal Agriculture'. In this book the theme focused on 'The Challenge of the 21st Century'. There are 12 chapters and topics from chapters 1 to 12 are: redesigning animal agriculture: a systemic perspective, maintaining vibrant rural communities, ethics on the frontiers of livestock science, the impact of genomics on livestock production, precision animal breeding, germ cell transplantation-a novel approach to designer animals?, cloning and transgenesis to redesign livestock, transforming livestock with transgenics: is designed resistance to viral diseases the way forward, towards an integrated approach to stochastic process-based modelling: with applications to animal behaviour and spatio-temporal spread, reef safe beef: environmentally sensitive livestock management for the grazing lands of the great barrier reef catchments, meeting ecological restoration targets in European waters: a challenge for animal agriculture, and livestock-fulfilling social, environmental and economic roles-is it possible.