Session 14. Strategies to add value to local breeds

Date: 23 August 2010; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Hoffmann (DE), Ligda (GR) and Hiemstra (NL)

Theatre Session 14

• How to distinguish products made from a specific animal breed: stakes and ways of collective action in the European Union
  Boutonnet, J.P.
• Local breeds as tool for a balanced regional development in the world of ‘globalization’: the case of Crete Island
  Belibasaki, S. and Stefanakis, A.
• Interactions between management of local breeds and valorization of products, examples of French cattle breeds
  Lauvie, A. and Lambert-Derkimba, A.
• Marketing products based on breed in the Nordic region
  Lund, B.
• Added values of dairy cattle breeds
  Cassandro, M.
• Strategies to add value to local breeds with particular reference to sheep and goats
  Papachristoforou, C., Koumas, A. and Hadjipavlou, G.
• Are PDO projects adding value to local breeds: comparing two case studies, Nustrale and Cinta Senese pig breeds
  Casabianca, F., Maestrini, O., Franci, O. and Pugliese, C.
• Beef quality differentiation in the framework of Serrana de Teruel endangered breed conservation programme
  Sanz, A., Alberti, P., Blasco, I., Ripoll, G., Alvarez-Rodriguez, J., Bernues, A., Olaizola, A., Zaragoza, P., Rodellar, C., Sanz, A., Martin-Burriel, I., Picot, A., Congost, S., Abril, F. and Vijil, E.
• Valuation of autochthonous bovine genotypes: assessment of the meat quality of the Italian Podolian and the Greek Katerini cattle
  Karatosidi, D., Marsico, G., Ligda, C. and Tarricone, S.
• Towards (self) sustainability of local cattle breeds in Europe
  Hiemstra, S.J.
• Suitability of traditional breeds for organic and low input pig production systems
  Leenhouwers, J.I. and Merks, J.W.M.

Poster Session 14

• Comparative studies on the aptitudes for meat production of the fattened lambs from local Romanian breeds
  Ghita, E., Lazar, C., Pelmus, R. and Ropota, M.
• Changes in the Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse population after the introduction foreign genes
  Sveistiene, R.
• Effect on meat production of F1 crossbreds resulted from Alpine breed(♂) x Albanian local goat breeds(♀)
  Kume, K. and Hajno, L.
• Morphology characterization, health and dairy production evaluation in native Garfagnina goat
  Corrias, F., Salari, F., Dal Prà, A., Ragona, G., Lombardo, A., Mari, M., Altomonte, I., Colombani, G., Pedri, P., Scotti, B., Brajon, G. and Martini, M.
• Identification of established genetic variants associated with milk traits
  Orford, M., Tzamaloukas, O., Papachristoforou, C., Koumas, A., Hadjipavlou, G. and Miltiadou, D.
• Power analysis of a population assignment test via SNP and STR markers with a view to breed authentication of sheep meat from native Southern Italy breeds
  Cecchi, F., Ciani, E., Bramante, A., Castellana, E., D’ Andrea, M., Occidente, M., Incoronato, C., D’ Angelo, F. and Ciampolini, R.
• Melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene polymorphisms in Modicana and Sardo-Modicana Italian cattle breeds
  Guastella, A.M., Sorbolini, S., Zuccaro, A., Pintus, E., Macciotta, N.P. and Marletta, D.
• Donkey population in Montenegro and their exterior characteristics
  Markovic, B. and Markovic, M.
• Exploring the risk factors to the heritage sheep breeds using multivariate analysis
  Ligda, C., Kotsaftiki, A., Carson, A. and Georgoudis, A.