Session 44. The role of livestock farming in rural development

Date: 27 August ‘09; 08:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Eilers (NL)

 

Theatre Session 44

• Social and cultural meanings of livestock farming in Western societies
  Boogaard, B.K.

• An inventory of pig production systems in Europe
  Bonneau, M., Dourmad, J.Y., Phatsara, C., Rydhmer, L., Edge, H., Fabrega, E., De Greef, K., Eidnes Sorensen, P., Laugé, V. and Ilari, E.

• Management and productivity in goat systems of less-favoured mountain areas in SW of Spain
  Gaspar, P., Mesías, F.J., Escribano, M. and Pulido, F.

• Characterizing of grassland use management for livestock farms using agricultural census databases
  Thénard, V., Jalabert, S. and Thérond, O.

• Intensification of integrated crop-livestock systems in the dry savannas of West Africa
  Hansen, H.H., Karbo, N., Ouedraogo, T., Bruce, J. and Tarawali, S.

• Identifying farm typologies in an abandonment risk area in the Pyrenees (Spain)
  López-I-Gelats, F., Milán, M.J. and Bartolomé, J.

• Smallholder cattle production dynamics: a case study from South Africa
  Stroebel, A. and Swanepoel, F.J.C.

• Local cattle breeds and performance potentials in rural areas of Iran
  Safari, S., Bokaian, J., Qorbani, A., Zakizadeh, S. and Monazami, H.R.

• The Finnish fur farmer impaled in social change
  Karkinen, K.T.

 

Poster Session 44

• Management of high ecological value grasslands : a way of agriculture diversification in Walloon Region
  Turlot, A., Rondia, P., Stilmant, D. and Bartiaux-Thill, N.

• Farming styles and local development: a European perspective
  Garnier, A., Nedelec, Y. and Marie, M.

• Sustainable livestock production in Serbia mountain regions
  Savic, M., Jovanovic, S., Vegara, M. and Popovic Vranjes, A.