Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
FAO Animal Production and Health Paper
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
FAO Animal Production and Health Paper
Author: Animal nutrition strategies and options to reduce the use of antimicrobials in animal production
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251346704
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Antimicrobial resistance is a global and increasing threat. Stewardship campaigns have been established, and policies implemented, to safeguard the appropriate use of antimicrobials in humans, animals, and plants. Restrictions on their use in animal production are on the agenda worldwide. Producers are investing in measures, involving biosecurity, genetics, health care, farm management, animal welfare, and nutrition, to prevent diseases and minimize the use of antimicrobials. Functional animal nutrition to promote animal health is one of the tools available to decrease the need for antimicrobials in animal production. Nutrition affects the critical functions required for host defence and disease resistance. Animal nutrition strategies should therefore aim to support these host defence systems and reduce the risk of the presence in feed and water of potentially harmful substances, such as mycotoxins, anti-nutritional factors and pathogenic bacteria and other microbes. General dietary measures to promote gastrointestinal tract health include the selective use of a combination of feed additives and feed ingredients to stabilize the intestinal microbiota and support mucosal barrier function. This knowledge, used to establish best practices in animal nutrition, could allow the adoption of strategies to reduce the need for antimicrobials and contain antimicrobial resistance.
The Awassi Sheep with Special Reference to the Improved Dairy Type
Author: Hellmut EpsteinPublisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN: 9789251014141
Category : Awassi sheep
Languages : nl
Pages : 282
Book Description
FAO animal production and health paper
Author: Food and Agriculture OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
The FAO technical papers. FAO animal production and health papers
Author: Livestock's Long Shadow
Author: Henning SteinfeldPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251055717
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
"The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.
Global Livestock Production Systems
Author: Timothy P. RobinsonPublisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN: 9789251070338
Category : Animal Production
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Informed livestock sector policy development and priority setting is heavily dependent on a good understanding of livestock production systems. In a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Livestock Research Institute, stock has been taken of where we have come from in agricultural systems classification and mapping; the current state of the art; and the directions in which research and data collection efforts need to take in the future. The book also addresses issues relating to the intensity and scale of production, moving from what is done to how it is done. The intensification of production is an area of particular importance, for it is in the intensive systems that changes are occurring most rapidly and where most information is needed on the implications that intensification of production may have for livelihoods, poverty alleviation, animal diseases, public health and environmental outcomes. A series of case studies is provided, linking livestock production systems to rural livelihoods and poverty and examples of the application of livestock production system maps are drawn from livestock production, now and in the future; livestock's impact on the global environment; animal and public health; and livestock and livelihoods. This book provides a formal reference to Version 5 of the global livestock production systems map, and to revised estimates of the numbers of rural poor livestock keepers, by country and livestock production system.
FAO Animal Production and Health Series
Author: Pastoralism – Making variability work
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251347530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Pastoral systems have evolved to function with the natural environment and therefore with variability. By identifying variability as an entry point, this paper aims at (i) engaging FAO in the mainstreaming of pastoralism by establishing the understanding of pastoralism, and its systematic inclusion in the normal operations of FAO, and at (ii) presenting an evidence based narrative on pastoralism to a specialists’ audience. Two main points are made in this document: First, pastoral systems are emblematic of farming with nature. Second, pastoral systems make use of variability in inputs (the environment) by matching it with variability in their own operational processes (flexibility in movements, animal breeds, labour force, etc.) in such a way as to reduce the variability in outputs (animal production and health, household’s food security, etc). Since 2015, the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub (PKH) has helped creating an institutional space for connecting and coordinating work on pastoralism within FAO. An Inter-Departmental Working Group on Pastoralism has been formed. The conceptual framework of this paper and early versions have benefited from comments and guidance of FAO staff as well as of specialists of pastoralism worldwide.