Session 40. Symposium: Environmental impact of animal production - 1. Evaluating negative and positive externalities

Date: 26 August 2010; 08:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Lecomte (FR)

Theatre Session 40

• Growth in the global livestock sector and related greenhouse gas emissions: life cycle assessment and evaluation of mitigation options
  Gerber, P., Henderson, B., Vellinga, T. and Steinfeld, H.
• Evaluating the positive and negative externalities of livestock systems for increasing their socio-economic and environmental sustainability
  Herrero, M., De Boer, I., Garnett, T., Staal, S., Duncan, A. and Grace, D.
• Specificity of environmental issues related to livestock in the tropics
  Doreau, M. and Blanfort, V.
• Multi-scale trade-offs between production and environment in grassland agroecosystems: application to livestock farming systems and biodiversity conservation
  Tichit, M., Sabatier, R., Teillard D’evry, F. and Doyen, L.
• Effect of spice supplementation on in vitro degradability, total gas, methane and selected bacteria for rice straw as a substrate
  Khan, M.M.H. and Chaudhry, A.S.
• Beef cattle in a mobile outdoor system during winter: general and excretory behaviour
  Wahlund, L., Lindgren, K., Lidfors, L. and Salomon, E.

Poster Session 40

• Emission of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from fattening pig houses with natural ventilation in South-East Spain
  Madrid, J., Orengo, J., Valera, L., Martínez, S., López, M.J., Megías, M.D., Pelegrín, A.F. and Hernández, F.
• Animal activity measured by pixel difference image in pig fattening houses under natural illumination conditions of Mediterranean area
  Pelegrín, A.F., Hernández, F., Valera, L., Orengo, J., López, M.J., Martínez, S., Megías, M.D. and Madrid, J.
• Simultaneous emissions and dispersion of the ammonia and methane plume inside and around a dairy farm in Segovia (Spain)
  Sanz, F., Montalvo, G., Gómez, J.L., Bigeriego, M., Pineiro, C. and Sanz, M.J.
• Greenhouse gases and ammonia emissions from intensive pig farm
  Mihina, S., Palkovicova, Z., Knizatova, M. and Broucek, J.