Redesigning animal agriculture the challenge of the 21st century /
Focusing on livestock production systems, this text addresses how the diversity of global food demands will be met in future, providing insights into scientific areas and the implications for addressing global drivers for change.
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CAB International,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Redesigning animal agriculture: a systemic perspective / Richard Bawden
- 2. Maintaining vibrant rural communities / Margaret Alston
- 3. Ethics on the frontiers of livestock science / Paul Thompson
- 4. The impact of genomics on livestock production / Ross Tellam
- 5. Precision animal breeding / Kishore Prayaga and Antonio Reverter
- 6. Germ cell transplantation
- a novel approach to designer animals? / Ina Dobrinski and Jonathan Hill
- 7. Cloning and transgenesis to redesign livestock / David N. Wells and Goetz Laible
- 8. Transforming livestock with transgenics: is designed resistance to viral diseases the way forward? / Tim Doran and Luke Lambeth
- 9. 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
- 10. Reef safe beef: environmentally sensitive livestock management for the grazing lands of the Great Barrier Reef catchments / Iain Gordon and Brigid Nelson
- 11. Meeting ecological restoration targets in European waters: A challenge for animal agriculture / Penny J. Johnes
- 12. Livestock
- Fulfilling social, environmental and economic roles
- Is it possible? / David L. Swain and Margaret Gill.