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Review: Towards the agroecological management of ruminants, pigs and poultry through the development of sustainable breeding programmes. II. Breeding strategies.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Nov 2016
Phocas F, Belloc C, Bidanel J, Delaby L, Dourmad J Y, Dumont B, Ezanno P, Fortun-Lamothe L, Foucras G, Frappat B, González-García E, Hazard D, Larzul C, Lubac S, Mignon-Grasteau S, Moreno C R, Tixier-Boichard M, Brochard M
Abstract excerpt
Agroecology uses ecological processes and local resources rather than chemical inputs to develop productive and resilient livestock and crop production systems. In this context, breeding innovations are necessary to obtain animals that are both productive and adapted to a broad range of local contexts and diversity of systems. Breeding strategies to promote agroecological systems are similar for different animal...
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