New trends for innovation in the Mediterranean animal production / edited by R. Bouche, A. Derkimba, F. Casabianca.

• Superior document: European Association for Animal Production ; 129
• HerausgeberIn: Bouche, R.; Derkimba, A.; Casabianca, F.
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen : : Wageningen Academic Publishers :, Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Series: European Association for Animal Production ; 129
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 Mediter...

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 time spent on pasture and protein content of the concentrate on milk yield and grazing behaviour
• Comparison of animal performance of domestic herbivores grazing on partially improved heath lands
• Performance of domestic herbivores in marginal heathlands
• Effect of grass nitrogen protection by Acacia cyanophylla on nitrogen balance and sheep milk production
• Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) pulp as an energy source in diet for growing rabbits
• Nutritional status of the endangered Pantelleria donkey breed
• Study of some haematic parameters as indicators of the metabolic nutritional status in Nero Siciliano growing pigs
• Net transfer of nutrients to duodenum, and disappearance of n-alkanes in the reticulo-rumen and the hindgut of sheep fed grass/legume combinations
• Extruded linseed in the diet of dairy ewes: effects on fatty acid composition of milk and cheese
• C. Animal products, system traceability
• SIEOL, information system for genetic, technical and economic support for French diary sheep breeders
• Outlook for producing Timahdite lamb with improved dietetic quality reared on rangelands in the Central Middle Atlas (Morocco)
• Effect of different production systems on lamb sensory quality
• Carcass and meat quality of Majorcan black pig slaughtered at different live weight
• Influence of feeding system on carcass and meat quality: fat colour as a tool of classification
• The use of subcutaneous fat colour to trace grass-feeding in Parda de Montaña yearling bulls
• Wool in Mediterranean regions: a forgotten and neglected product of sheep or a natural and renewable resource for the future?
• D. Animal recording – data identification
• Innovations have improved the efficience of ruminant production systems in Cyprus
• New morphological and weight measurements by visual image analysis in sheep and goats
• An information systems for the assessment of the threats to the heritage sheep breeds
• Permanence of electronic ear tags in extensive rearing of Majorcan black pig
• Part 3. Innovations improving the socio-cultural basis or increasing ethical issues in livestock systems from the Mediterranean area. Mediterranean pastorality: sustainable know-how in search of development
• The adaptation of technical and organizational innovations and their impacts on dairy sheep breeding in Tunisia
• Tradition and innovation in the Mediterranean pastoralism: recognition of its multiple roles for the sustainable development of rural areas
• PDO project for Corsican pork as an innovation for the whole marketing chain
• Innovation systems and processes in the field of agricultural direct marketing: a cross-national analysis between France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland
• The role of Mediterranean networks of cooperative research in animal production in favor of innovation: situation and outlooks for the future
• Part 4. Innovations dedicated to enhance environmental positive impacts of livestock activities from Mediterranean natural and human resources
• Innovative strategies of organic beef produces in Italy
• Use of homeopathy in parasite control in a flock of Zerasca sheep
• Innovating on welfare: an added value?
• The use of grazing pastures in goat production: development of an approach to combine optimized use of the forage resource and the control of related risks
• Silvopastoral innovation in North Mediterranean livestock farming systems: current knowledge and prospects for technical support
• The role of secondary compounds in foraging on Mediterranean rangelands
• Round table
• Traditions in Mediterranean livestock activities: obstacle or source of innovations?
• Conclusion
• An overall view on recent innovations in Mediterranean Livestock Farming Systems
• Keyword index
• Author index.