Download or read book Isotope Aided Studies on Livestock Productivity in Mediterranean and North African Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the final research co-ordination meeting organized by the IAEA and the Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione Italiana allo Sviluppo, Rabat, Morocco, 23-27 March 1987. The production of meat, milk, wool and other products from grazing animals has a long and important tradition in countries around the Mediterranean and North Africa. Although there are many millions of both large and small ruminants in these countries, the output of livestock products is increasingly falling short of the demand created by human population expansion. To reverse, or at least slow down, this trend requires that better use be made of existing animal and feed resources - in effect to optimize individual productivity. The strategies to be adopted to optimize productivity need to be developed through both basic and applied research on breeding, feeding and other management practices. Nuclear techniques, employed in conjunction with standard methods, play an important role in developing a proper understanding of animal/environment interactions; they can also be used to examine how such interactions can be manipulated to minimize the impact of constraints and thereby to improve productivity.
Download or read book A View from the Herd written by Richard W. Redding and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the late Richard Redding synthesizes his decades-long work on the ancient agricultural economy of Egypt. Drawing on a diverse range of data, including zooarchaeology, ancient texts, and iconographic sources, he explores the role of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs in the economic infrastructure of ancient, mainly Pharaonic, Egypt and the complexities of decision-making processes that shaped the use and management of these vital livestock resources. The book integrates zooarchaeological and historical data with information on unimproved breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs from Egypt and the broader Middle East as well as considers texts and tomb paintings. Redding argues that understanding the interplay between economic forces, environmental factors, and herders' knowledge of animal characteristics is crucial for unraveling the dynamic nature of decision-making. The author explores herd growth rates, meat yields, caloric and nutritional benefits, and optimal herd structures. By employing that data and ecological models, including the annual Nile floods, he provides insights into the adaptive strategies employed by ancient Egyptian herders. In this way, Redding examines the economic rationale behind ancient Egyptian herding communities. His models of Pharaonic herding strategies generate expectations tested using zooarchaeological evidence. Redding long advocated the modeling approach he demonstrates here, understanding zooarchaeological data through a lens of animal biology and environmental context. This work should therefore spark wide interest among archaeologists working in disparate regions.
Download or read book Utilization of Research Results on Forage and Agricultural By product Materials as Animal Feed Resources in Africa written by Ben H. Dzowela and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And Then There Were None written by Paul R. Krausman and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once plentiful in the mountains of southern Arizona, by the 1990s desert bighorn sheep were wiped out in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness of the Santa Catalina Mountains as a result of habitat loss and alteration. This book uses their history and population decline as a case study in human alteration of wildlife habitat. When human encroachment had driven the herd to extinction, wildlife managers launched a major and controversial effort to reestablish this population. For more than forty years Paul R. Krausman directed studies of the Pusch Wilderness population of these iconic animals, located in the mountainous outskirts of Tucson. The story he tells here reveals the complex relationships between politics and biology in wildlife conservation. His account of the evolution of wildlife conservation practices includes discussions of techniques and of human attitudes toward predators, fire, and their management.
Download or read book INIS Atomindex written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Atomic Energy Agency Publications written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IAEA Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Atomic Energy Agency Publications Catalogue written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books in Print of the United Nations System written by United Nations. Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1992 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecophysiology of Small Desert Mammals written by Allan A. Degen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since small mammals have a large surface to mass ratio, one would expect them to quickly dehydrate and perish at high environmental temperatures. Nonetheless, a large number of small mammal species inhabit deserts. This fascinating phenomenon is investigated by Prof. A. Allan Degen in his book. The majority of small desert mammals are rodents, but shrews of several grams and small foxes of 1 kg are also present. Their survival is due mainly to behavioural adaptations and habitat selection, however, physiological adaptations also contribute to the success. Interestingly, many small mammals that live in different deserts of the world show similarities in their adaptive traits although they have different taxonomic affinities.
Download or read book Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Ruminants Research and Development in the Near East written by A. M. Aboul-Naga and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small ruminants are important in agricultural enterprises in the Near East region, and are the basic source of animal protein and cash to large communities in the region. This workshop presents a series of papers on improving lamb and kid production in intensive and semi-intensive systems, strategies for small ruminant production, the implementation of intensive lamb production systems, and planning requirements for executing small ruminants development programs, research priorities and linkages with regional programs.
Download or read book World Animal Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Biotechnology in International Agricultural Research written by International Rice Research Institute and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
