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.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / David L. Swain, Ed Charmley, John Steel and Shaun Coffey
• Redesigning Animal Agriculture : a Systemic Perspective / Richard Bawden
• Maintaining Vibrant Rural Communities / Margaret Alston
• Ethics on the Frontiers of Livestock Science / Paul B. Thompson
• The Impact of Genomics on Livestock Production / Ross Tellam
• Precision Animal Breeding / Kishore C. Prayaga and Antonio Reverter
• Germ Cell Transplantation : a Novel Approach to 'Designer' Animals? / Ina Dobrinski and Jonathan R. Hill
• Cloning and Transgenesis to Redesign Livestock / David N. Wells and Goetz Laible
• Transforming Livestock with Transgenics : is Designed Resistance to Viral Diseases the Way Forward? / Tim Doran and Luke Lambeth
• Towards an Integrated Approach to Stochastic Process-based Modelling : with Applications to Animal Behaviour and Spatio-temporal Spread / Glenn Marion, David M. Walker, Alex Cook, David L. Swain and Mike R. Hutchings
• Reef Safe Beef : Environmentally Sensitive Livestock Management for the Grazing Lands of the Great Barrier Reef Catchments / Iain J. Gordon and Brigid Nelson
• Meeting Ecological Restoration Targets in European Waters : a Challenge for Animal Agriculture / Penny J. Johnes
• Livestock : Fulfilling Social, Environmental and Economic Roles : is it Possible? / David L. Swain and Margaret Gill.