Developing breeding strategies for lower input animal production environments

The whole issue containing the Proceedings is available here, while the single manuscripts that compose the Proceedings are listed hereby

• Preface
• Summary of workshop outcome
  M. Bichard
• Developing breeding strategies for lower input animal production environments. An Introduction
  K. Hammond & S. Galal
• Breeding goal definition
  A.F. Groen
• Livestock straight-breeding system structures for the sustainable intensification of extensive grazing systems
  J. Van der Werf
• Developing cross-breeding structures for extensive grazing systems, utilising only indigenous animal genetic resources
  G. Nitter
• Developing straight-breeding and cross-breeding structures for extensive grazing systems which utilise exotic animal genetic resources
  J.P. Gibson & L.V. Cundiff
• Economic evaluation of straight- and cross-breeding programmes
  J. Weller
• The open nucleus breeding programme of the Djallonke sheep in Cote d’Ivôire
  C.V. Yapi-Gnoare
• Improving subtropical Egyptian fat-tailed sheep through cross-breeding with the prolific Finnsheep
  A.M. Aboul-Naga
• NORFA: The Norwegian-Egyptian project for improving local breeds of laying hens in Egypt
  N. Kolstad & F. H. Abdou
• National rabbit project population of Ghana: a genetic case study
  S.D. Lukefahr
• D’man sheep breeding programme in Morocco
  E.M. Darfaoui
• Peul, Touabire and Djallonke sheep breeding programmes in Senegal
  A. Fall
• An evaluation of the breeding strategies used in the development of the Dorper sheep and the improved Boer goat of South Africa
  K. Ramsay, D. Swart, B. Olivier & G. Hallowell
• Case Study about the N’Dama breeding programme at the International Trypanotolerance Centre (ITC) in The Gambia
  L. Dempfle & J. Jaitner
• Cross-breeding strategies for beef cattle production in Brazil
  K. Euclides Filho
• Dairy cattle breeding programme in Brazil development of the Brazilian milking hybrid (MLB)
  F.E. Madalena
• Development of animal breeding strategies for the local breeds of ruminants in the French West Indies
  M. Naves, F. Leimbacher, G. Alexandre & N. Mandonnet
• Breeding strategies for low input animal production systems: a case study from Central America and Mexico
  A. Tewolde
• Structures for improving smallholder chicken production in Bangladesh breeding strategy
  H.A. Jensen
• Yak breeding programmes in China
  Wu Ning
• Cattle improvement project in the Kyrgyz Republic
  A. Jumaliev & A. Kretov
• A village goat cross-breeding project in Maharashtra, India
  C. Nimbkar
• Cattle breeding programmes in India
  V.K. Taneja
• Buffalo breeding programmes in India
  K. R. Trivedi
• Field performance recording of cross-bred dairy cows in Kerala (India)
  N.R. Unnithan, B.N. Kishan & G. Kishore
• Village breeding programme for local breeds of duck in Indonesia
  L. H. Prasetyo
• Buffalo breeding programme in Thailand
  C. Chantalakhana
• Small ruminant breeding programmes in Greece
  A. Georgoudis & C. Ligda
• Breeding strategies for the Mediterranean Modicana cattle breed
  A Rosati
• Iberian pig breeding programme
  L. Silió
• LAMBPLAN: a sheep breeding strategy
  R. Banks
• The breeding programme for the Angora goat in Australia
  P.J. Holst
• Sustainability of dairy cattle breeding systems utilising artificial insemination in less developed countries – examples of problems and prospects
  J. Philipsson