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  title info:
    title: New trends for innovation in the Mediterranean animal production
  name:
    name part: Bouche, R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Derkimba, A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Casabianca, F.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: Approx. 345 p. online resource.
  abstract: The Mediterranean area shows a great diversity of livestock systems, depending on local resources and traditions, but also on the networking space where informational resources are available for producers. During the last decades, a lot of innovations have been conceived or introduced in the Mediterranean area, allowing livestock systems to remain competitive. The book looks at two main issues: firstly, it gives an updated review on the main innovations that significantly changed the activities of livestock production in the Mediterranean area in the recent past. Secondly, the focus lies on the extent to which these innovations improve the efficiency, ensure the socio-cultural basis or reduce the environmental impact of livestock systems. One major finding is a new vision of innovating systems based on the distinction between regulated innovation (when aims are fixed) and innovative design (when aims are questioned). Innovations reported in the book are dealing with a set of concerns. They concern the production techniques, the work organization, the equipment and infrastructures, the collective features for selection, reproduction, feeding or sanitary devices. They also concern the local organization such as product labelling, new dynamics around local breeds, collective rules for supply basin or approaches of new products for new markets. More recently, some innovations focus on environmental impacts of livestock production, due to an increasing consciousness of those kinds of problems. In the final part of the book, a round table copes with a crucial question: are traditions in Mediterranean livestock activities to be considered an obstacle or a source of innovation? This book provides a set of updated information and knowledge useful for researchers, students, extension services and policy-makers in the field of animal science.
  table of contents: Preface -- Part 1. Introduction on innovation -- Agricultural systems and the innovation process -- Broad-view research in the Mediterranean system -- Innovations arising from applied research on a new on-line milk analyzer and a behavior meter -- Part 2. Innovations improving the efficiency of livestock systems in the Mediterranean area -- A. Genetics, breeding, reproduction -- Conception of new bioeconomic indexes to evaluate caprine genotypes productivity -- Genetic variability and phylogenetic relationships of ovine Algerian breeds using microsatellites -- In vitro conservation and preliminary molecular identification of some Turkish domestic animal genetic resources -- Red deer (Cervus elaphus) farming in Greece: predicting the rate of inbreeding and estimating the effective population size -- The use of crossbreeding programs for increasing domestic beef production -- Proposal of some alternatives to simplify a MOET programme -- Adaptation and reproductive performances of exotic saanen breed introduced in Lebanon -- Managing the breeding and calving seasons in the suckler cow herd -- Improvement of the reproductive efficiency for the development of the Sardinian sheep breeding -- B. Feeding systems, nutrition, health -- Use of stochastic models to stimulate long-term dynamics of mountain cattle herds under low-labour availability scenarios -- Innovations in small ruminants feeding systems in arid Mediterranean areas -- Fattening Cinta Senese pigs with chestnuts: effect on meat and fat characteristics -- Importance of Mediterranean forest products as food resource of domestic herbivores: the case of oak acorn -- Finishing Cinta Senese pigs at pasture: fatty acids composition of cured lard -- Effects of winter shearing on reproductive and lactation performances of the Latxa dairy ewe -- Effect of concentrate quantity and administration pattern on milk parameters and grazing time in a rationed dairy sheep grazing system -- Relation between the distribution of tim…
  note: edited by R. Bouche, A. Derkimba, F. Casabianca.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: EAAP – European Federation of Animal Science ; 129
  identifier: 9789086867264
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-726-4
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    record creation date: 120326
    record change date: 20150519192346.0
    record identifier: 978-90-8686-726-4