The relationship between environment and animal production
The relationships between breeding and feeding and the global environment for an efficient livestock production, are analyzed. The main questions concerning the use of biotechnology in the field of evolution and development, in relation to the environment are discussed. The increasing intensification of production systems and the implications for the environment, welfare of animals and humans is evaluated. Animal health matters and resources depletion in respect to the world-wide problems resulting from the exponential growth of both population and energy consumption are presented and the need of understanding the concept of sustainable development and its implication within specific economic and regional environmental conditions is underlined. The importance of the existing relationship between flock/herd and its direct milieu re. the Old World’s traditional pastoral societies and the New World’s extensive animal agriculture is presented. Finally, the growing scarcity of water availability, which will be - more and more - the factor limiting production and affecting livestock numbers introduced.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | spa |
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Asociacion Latinoamericana de Produccion Animal
2005
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.alpa.uy/index.php/ojs_files/article/view/35 |
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| Summary: | The relationships between breeding and feeding and the global environment for an efficient livestock production, are analyzed. The main questions concerning the use of biotechnology in the field of evolution and development, in relation to the environment are discussed. The increasing intensification of production systems and the implications for the environment, welfare of animals and humans is evaluated. Animal health matters and resources depletion in respect to the world-wide problems resulting from the exponential growth of both population and energy consumption are presented and the need of understanding the concept of sustainable development and its implication within specific economic and regional environmental conditions is underlined. The importance of the existing relationship between flock/herd and its direct milieu re. the Old World’s traditional pastoral societies and the New World’s extensive animal agriculture is presented. Finally, the growing scarcity of water availability, which will be - more and more - the factor limiting production and affecting livestock numbers introduced. |
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