Selected Issues in Livestock Industry Development

摘要

The first four chapters deal with livestock studies in a global context: the maintenance of biological diversity, the international implications of the dominance of meat production in agriculture in the European Economic Community, the causes and consequences of overproduction of livestock products in Europe and North America, and world patterns of supply and demand for livestock production. The final six chapters focus in more detail on selected technical and economic issues: dairy breeding and production in the tropics, livestock strategies for the Mediterranean and Latin American areas, cost-benefit studies in livestock improvement, biotechnology in livestock production, and the role and management of agricultural research.