Livestock has been the mainstay of Indian agriculture sector and also a major source of GHGs emissions from the world’s largest livestock population. The milching livestock (including lactating dairy cattle, buffalo and goat) constitutes 21.3% of the country’s livestock. We present a detailed inventory of GHGs emissions from milching livestock (using the recent census and country-specific emiss...

Rodents are a major constraint to forage production for livestock in Mongolia. A technical program to identify the magnitude of the problem and strengthen the research capabilities of Mongolian rodent specialists was initiated in 1994. The Brandt's vole is the most widespread and the most detrimental rodent to the steppes of Mongolia. Limited resources inhibit activities by the Mongolian Plant ...

By 2050, the earth’s population is expected to be more than 9 billion. The need for secure food and water supply will force agriculture to increase production. The major greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the livestock sector are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) throughout the production process. These gases are the key contributor to an in...

Over the past decade, biofuels production in the EU and US has boomed – much of this due to government mandates and subsidies. The US has now surpassed Brazil as the world’s leading producer of ethanol. The economic and environmental impact of these biofuel programs has become an important question of public policy. Due to the complex intersectoral linkages between biofuels and crops, livestock...

In contrast with the more arid savannah areas of West Africa, the central Guinea savannah (or V-Baoulé) of Côte d’Ivoire does not suffer from important forage shortage during the dry season. Since the 1970s the Ivorian government has made considerable efforts to increase local cattle-breeding activities in the area, which is suitable for trypanotolerant livestock production. Trypanosomosis cont...

Women play a significant role in smallholder production system in Pakistan. They actively participate in various activities relating to crop and livestock production in addition to conducting their routine domestic duties often working non-stop from dawn to dusk. But the extent of their participation varies from region to region. The aim of this field survey was to investigate the involvement o...

Introduction Recognizing the importance of livestock movements in the spread of contagious diseases, various countries in the world have developed livestock movement databases. Social network analysis techniques have recently been applied to study such databases as this technique has the advantage of allowing the study of the interactions among all pairs of livestock holdings that are formed fo...

Production of safe and healthy high quality food for human population, preservation of stable rural social economic infrastructure and sustainable use of agricultural land and animal resources are important goals of European livestock sector. Research and innovation in the livestock sector will play an important role in development of more effi cient and sustainable strategies for supply of hea...

Biotechnological achievements of recent years have emerged as powerful tool to improve quality attributes of livestock products including milk and meat products. Biotechnological approaches can be employed for improving productivity, economy, physicochemical and nutritional attributes of a wide range of livestock products. The target areas of biotechnological research in the field of livestock ...

The demand, production and consumption of livestock products are growing faster than the increase in world population. This development has led to pollution problem caused by the increasing amount of animal waste. The complaints and health threats of animal waste pollution to our environment is on the increase. In some cases, the damage has been spectacular and even tragic. In Nigeria, there is...