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Animal production and animal science worldwide WAAP book of the year 2007 World Association for Animal Production ageningen Academic P u b i l s h e r s Animal production and animal science worldwide Project and Co-ordination: A. Rosati Authors: Allan, Mark F. 59 Landau, Serge 109 Amaral, Bruno C. do 89 Madeiros, Clive A. 145, 185 Ames, David R. 27 Mariante, Arthur da Silva 35 Antonini, Marco 201 McDermott, John 15 Armitage, Frank 169 McManus, Concepta 35 Avendano, Santiago 193 Mezzadra, Carlos 35 Bahelka, Ivan 121 Moyo, Siboniso 15 Baltenweck, Isabelle 15 Nieuwhof, Gert J. 193 Barbará, María Angelina Chiappe 185 Oravcová, Marta 121 Becerril-Pérez, Carlos Miguel 149 Ozawa, Takeyuki 41 Boettcher, Paul John 53 Pagès-Manté, Albert 149 Braw-Tal, Ruth 109 Pan, Zhong-Zong 77 Bubolz, Jacob W. 89 Peškovičová, Dana 121 Cushman, Robert A. 59 Piedrafta, Jesús 101 Dahl, Geoffrey E. 89 Pointet, Abram 175 Demo, Peter 121 Porto-Neto, Laércio Ribeiro 53 Doolan, Imelda A. 95 Pro-Martínez, Arturo 149 Euclides, Kepler 35 Rekilä, Teppo 161 Fernandez, C.A. 185 Renieri, Carlo 201 Fortes, Marina Rufno Salinas 53 Rovere, Gabriel 35 Frank, Eduardo N. 137 Sanchez, Marisa E. 145, 185 Garcia, José Fernando 53 Sato, Eimei 41 Gerrard, David E. 67 Satoh, Masahiro 41 González-Mariscal, Gabriela 149 Scheffer, Jason M. 67 Gootwine, Elisha 109 Staal, Steve 15 Grant, Alan L. 67 Steeg, Jeanette van de 15 Hanzawa, Kei 41 Tao, Sha 89 Herrero, Mario 15 Terada, Fuminori 41 Joost, Stéphane 175 Vallejo-Galland5, Belinda 149 Kai, Osamu 41 Vašíček, Dušan 121 Kashiwazaki, Naomi 41 Wilkinson, Martin G. 95 Koizumi, Seiichi 41 Winters, Marco 193 Koskinen, Nita 161 Yasue, Takeshi 41 Kuang, Shihuan 67 Yoshizawa, Fumiaki 41 Kuehn, Larry A. 59 Zhong, Yili 77 Kupsala, Kirsi 161 WAAP, Via Tomassetti n. 3, 00161 Rome, Italy Animal production and animal science worldwide WAAP book of the year 2007 A Review on Developments and Research in Livestock Systems Edited by A. Rosati, A. Tewolde and C. Mosconi Wageningen Academic P u b l i s h e r s World Association for Animal Production This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned. Nothing from this publication may be translated, reproduced, stored in a computerised system or published in any form or in any manner, ISBN: 978-90-8686-068-5 including electronic, m echanical, reprographic or e-ISBN: 978-90-8686-656-4 photographic, without prior written permission from DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-656-4 the publisher, Wageningen Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, the Netherlands, www.WageningenAcademic.com ISSN 1574-1125 The individual contributions in this publication and any liabilities arising from them remain the First published, 2009 responsibility of the authors. The publisher is not responsible for possible © Wageningen Academic Publishers damages, which could be a result of content The-Netherlands, 2009 derived from this publication. Table of contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 11 Section 1 – Development of livestock systems Development of livestock production systems in Africa: challenges and opportunities .... 15 Siboniso Moyo, John McDermott, Mario Herrero, Jeanette van de Steeg, Steve Staal and Isabelle Baltenweck Livestock systems in North America ..................................................................................... 27 David R. Ames Development of production systems in South America: beef production in the southern cone and its impact on the global market ....................................................... 35 Arthur da Silva Mariante, Concepta McManus, Carlos Mezzadra, Gabriel Rovere and Kepler Euclides A brief history of the Japanese Society of Animal Science (JSAS) and recent achievements published in the offcial journal of the JSAS ........................................... 41 Eimei Sato, Fumiaki Yoshizawa, Osamu Kai, Kei Hanzawa, Masahiro Sato, Naomi Kashiwazaki, Fuminori Terada, Takeshi Yasue, Takeyuki Ozawa and Seiichi Koizumi Section 2 – Achievements of research Achievement of research in the feld of molecular genetics: recent molecular genetics achievements and unfolding applications to livestock .................................................... 53 Josè Fernando Garcia, Marina Rufno Salinas Fortes, Laércio Ribeiro Porto-Neto and Paul John Boettcher Achievements of research in reproduction sciences ........................................................... 59 Robert A. Cushman, Mark F. Allan and Larry A. Kuehn Achievements of research in the feld of animal growth and development ........................ 67 Jason M. Scheffer, David E. Gerrard, Shihuan Kuang and Alan L. Grant Achievement of research in the feld of immunology and endocrinology ............................ 77 Zhong-Zong Pan and Yili Zhong Achievements of research in the feld of lactation biology .................................................. 89 Geoffrey E. Dahl, Bruno C. do Amaral, Jacob W. Bubolz and Sha Tao Achievements of research in the feld of milk-cheese products .......................................... 95 Imelda A. Doolan and Martin G. Wilkinson Achievements of research in the feld of beef cattle ..........................................................101 Jesús Piedrafta Achievements of research in the feld of sheep and goats ................................................109 Serge Landau, Elisha Gootwine and Ruth Braw-Tal Achievements of research in the feld of swine ..................................................................121 Dana Peškovičová, Peter Demo, Marta Oravcová, Ivan Bahelka and Dušan Vašíček Achievement of research in the feld of camelids...............................................................137 Eduardo N. Frank Achievements of research in the feld of ostrich and rhea farming: health, disease and the importance of biosecurity in the ostrich farm ..................................................145 Marisa E. Sanchez and Clive A. Madeiros Achievements of research in the feld of rabbits ................................................................149 Carlos Miguel Becerril-Pérez, Gabriela González-Mariscal, Arturo Pro-Martínez, Albert Pagès-Manté and Belinda Vallejo-Galland Achievements of research in the feld of fur animals .........................................................161 Nita Koskinen, Kirsi Kupsala and Teppo Rekilä Section 3 – Contemporary issues Milk recording: its role, past, present and future ...............................................................169 Frank Armitage Animal farming and GIS service .......................................................................................... 175 Stéphane Joost and Abram Pointet Productive achievement in commercial rhea breeding in Argentina .................................187 Marisa E. Sanchez, C.A. Fernandez, María Angelina Chiappe Barbará and Clive A. Madeiros The existing level of uptake of molecular techniques in animal breeding ........................195 Gert J. Nieuwhof, Marco Winters and Santiago Avendano Camelid breeding in the Andean region ..............................................................................203 Carlo Renieri and Marco Antonini Section 4 – Statistics Chapter 1 – Livestock population .......................................................................................221 Chapter 2 – Livestock production .......................................................................................231 Chapter 3 – Human population ..........................................................................................243 Chapter 4 – Animal food consumption per caput / per year ............................................. 251
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