'Redesigning Animal Agriculture The Challenge of the 21st Century' is a comprehensive text.

Redesigning animal agriculture: the challenge of the 21st century

Discover how the growing diversity of global food demands will be met in the future.

• 11 September 2007 | Updated 14 October 2011

Swain DL, Charmley E, Steel JW, Coffey SG. (eds). 2007. Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century. August. Hardback. ISBN: 9781845932237. 336 pp.

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• Authors

Description

This monograph, published by CAB International, is based on presentations given at 2005 Horizons in Livestock Sciences conference, held 12-15 September at the Gold Coast International Hotel, Queensland, Australia.

Focussing on livestock production systems, this comprehensive text addresses how the growing diversity of global food demands will be met in the future. It provides insights into new and emerging scientific areas and the implications for addressing global drivers for change.

At a time of increased concern over animal welfare and environmental degradation, the global demand for animal-based protein is necessitating the development and use of emerging agricultural technology.

Contributions in this publication are from a wealth of international experts and cover:

• ethical, philosophical and systemic considerations
• the impact of genomics on livestock production
• the holistic systems perspective
• the complex systems approach using stochastic modelling methods
• how all these factors can be linked to achieve sustainable outcomes.

Contents

The listed contents include:

• Introduction
• Redesigning animal agriculture: a systematic perspective
• Maintaining vibrant rural communities
• Ethics on the frontiers of livestock science
• The impact of genomics on livestock production
• Precision animal breeding
• Germ cell transplantation - a novel approach to designer animals?
• Cloning and transgenesis to redesign livestock
• Transforming livestock with transgenics: is designed resistance to viral diseases the way forward?
• Towards an integrated approach to stochastic process-based modelling: with applications to animal behaviour and spatio-temporal spread
• Reef safe beef: environmentally sensitive livestock management for the grazing lands of the Great Barrier Reef catchments
• Meeting ecological restoration targets in European waters: A challenge for animal agriculture
• Livestock - fulfilling social, environmental and economic roles - is it possible?

Readership

This authoritative compendium will be an invaluable resource to:

• policy makers
• agricultural science students
• animal production researchers
• biotechnology and welfare researchers
• livestock science and agriculture scientists.

The compendium will enable readers to start thinking about new ways of managing livestock production systems.

Authors

This publication was edited by:

• Dr D L Swain, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia
• Dr E Charmley, CSIRO Livestock Industries
• Dr J W Steel, CSIRO Livestock Industries
• Dr S G Coffey, Industrial Research Ltd, New Zealand.

The publication can be purchased from CAB International  [external link].

Find out more about Horizons in Livestock Sciences conferences [external link] or read more about Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century [external link].

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