Topical RNAi for Sustainable Animal Health

Improving animal health for poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods.

Animals are vital to ensuring food security for individuals, families and communities in countries around the world. In this, the latest article in Veterinary Record's series promoting One Health, Andy Stringer, director of veterinary programmes at the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad, discusses how improving animal health, particularly of poultry and working equids, has the potenti...

Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Agriculture Ecology and Animal Health

Simulation for sustainable health care

The Journal of Simulation (JOS), an official journal of The UK Operational Research Society, aims to publish methodological and technological advances in the application of simulation modelling-related theory and practice. JOS publishes material in a wide range of domains, including manufacturing, service, defence and healthcare, as it seeks to interest and provoke discussion within the wider s...

Definition of animal breeding goals for sustainable production systems.

What we do is determined by the way we "view" a complex issue and what sample of issues or events we choose to deal with. In this paper, a model based on a communal, cultural, or people-centered worldview, informed by a subjective epistemology and a holistic ontology, is considered. Definitions and interpretations of sustainable agriculture are reviewed. Common elements in published definitions...

Precision Animal Breeding as a Sustainable, non-GMO Solution for Improving Animal Production and Welfare

Although dehorning and castration are recognized as requisite practices in modern livestock systems, producers would like to avoid animal welfare issues that arise from current management methods. Increased criticism and scrutiny of both producers and the food industry emanates from a growing number of concerned citizens and NGOs with animal rights/animal welfare agendas. The optimal and simple...