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A paradigm shift in livestock management: from resource sufficiency to functional integrity

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There are a multitude of controversies concerning livestock farming systems. The most common argument is that livestock production is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas production. Is the reality that simple? Is it the only basis on which we can assess the true value of these systems? This book delves into these issues and tries to understand what really underpins livestock farming in today's globalized world.

This book is the result of a workshop on the aptitude of livestock farming systems to maintain or develop rural societies, with case studies in Canadian prairies, the African Sahel, Mongolia, Tibet, South America, Australia and the French Alps. It aims at contributing to the international debate initiated by the FAO as part of the LEAD (Livestock, Environment and Development) initiative. The workshop took place in Hohhot (China) on June 28th and 29th, 2008.

Trish Kammili, Bernard Hubert, Jean-François Tourrand (editors).

Includes a DVD giving an overview of peasant society of the Bolivian highlands.
Cardère Editions, March 2011, 272 pages, 15 euros
> see the publisher's website

Label for the news : Book
Date for the news : 2011.06.06
Date of creation : 06/06/2011
Date of last update : 02/08/2011