New Trends for Innovation in the Mediterranean Animal Production (Eaap)

The Mediterranean area shows a great diversity of livestock systems, depending on local resources and traditions, but also on the networking space where informational resources are available for producers. During the last decades, a lot of innovations have been conceived or introduced in the Mediterranean area, allowing livestock systems to remain competitive. The book looks at two main issues: firstly, it gives an updated review on the main innovations that significantly changed the activities of livestock production in the Mediterranean area in the recent past. Secondly, the focus lies on the extent to which these innovations improve the efficiency, ensure the socio-cultural basis or reduce the environmental impact of livestock systems. One major finding is a new vision of innovating systems based on the distinction between regulated innovation (when aims are fixed) and innovative design (when aims are questioned). Innovations reported in the book are dealing with a set of concerns. They concern the production techniques, the work organization, the equipment and infrastructures, the collective features for selection, reproduction, feeding or sanitary devices. They also concern the local organization such as product labelling, new dynamics around local breeds, collective rules for supply basin or approaches of new products for new markets. More recently, some innovations focus on environmental impacts of livestock production, due to an increasing consciousness of those kinds of problems. In the final part of the book, a round table copes with a crucial question: are traditions in Mediterranean livestock activities to be considered an obstacle or a source of innovation? This book provides a set of updated information and knowledge useful for researchers, students, extension services and policy-makers in the field of animal science. Front Matter....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Agricultural systems and the innovation process....Pages 17-26 Broad-view research in the Mediterranean system....Pages 27-33 Innovations arising from applied research on a new on-line milk analyzer and a behavior meter....Pages 34-43 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Conception of new bioeconomic indexes to evaluate caprine genotypes productivity....Pages 47-51 Genetic variability and phylogenetic relationships of ovine Algerian breeds using microsatellites....Pages 52-55 In vitro conservation and preliminary molecular identification of some Turkish domestic animal genetic resources....Pages 56-61 Red deer ( Cervus elaphus ) farming in Greece: predicting the rate of inbreeding and estimating the effective population size....Pages 62-65 The use of crossbreeding programs for increasing domestic beef production....Pages 66-69 Proposal of some alternatives to simplify a MOET programme....Pages 70-73 Adaptation and reproductive performances of exotic saanen breed introduced in Lebanon....Pages 74-77 Managing the breeding and calving seasons in the suckler cow herd....Pages 78-81 Improvement of the reproductive efficiency for the development of the Sardinian sheep breeding....Pages 82-85 Use of stochastic models to simulate long-term dynamics of mountain cattle herds under low-labour availability scenarios....Pages 89-98 Innovations in small ruminants feeding systems in arid Mediterranean areas....Pages 99-116 Fattening Cinta Senese pigs with chestnuts: effect on meat and fat characteristics....Pages 117-122 Importance of Mediterranean forest products as food resource of domestic herbivores: the case of oak acorn....Pages 123-126 Finishing Cinta Senese pigs at pasture: fatty acids composition of cured lard....Pages 127-130 Effects of winter shearing on reproductive and lactation performances of the Latxa dairy ewe....Pages 131-134 Effect of concentrate quantity and administration pattern on milk parameters and grazing time in a rationed dairy sheep grazing system....Pages 135-138 Relation between the distribution of time spent on pasture and protein content of the concentrate on milk yield and grazing behaviour....Pages 139-142 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Comparison of animal performance of domestic herbivores grazing on partially improved heath lands....Pages 143-147 Performance of domestic herbivores in marginal heathlands....Pages 148-152 Effect of grass nitrogen protection by Acacia cyanophylla on nitrogen balance and sheep milk production....Pages 153-156 Carob ( Ceratonia siliqua ) pulp as an energy source in diet for growing rabbits....Pages 157-160 Nutritional status of the endangered Pantelleria donkey breed....Pages 161-164 Study of some haematic parameters as indicators of the metabolic nutritional status in Nero Siciliano growing pigs....Pages 165-168 Net transfer of nutrients to duodenum, and disappearance of n-alkanes in the reticulo-rumen and the hindgut of sheep fed grass/legume combinations....Pages 169-172 Extruded linseed in the diet of dairy ewes: effects on fatty acid composition of milk and cheese....Pages 173-176 SIEOL, information system for genetic, technical and economic support for French dairy sheep breeders....Pages 179-185 Outlook for producing Timahdite lamb with improved dietetic quality reared on rangelands in the Central Middle Atlas (Morocco)....Pages 186-192 Effect of different production systems on lamb sensory quality....Pages 193-197 Carcass and meat quality of Majorcan black pig slaughtered at different live weight....Pages 198-201 Influence of feeding system on carcass and meat quality: fat colour as a tool of classification....Pages 202-205 The use of subcutaneous fat colour to trace grass-feeding in Parda de Montaña yearling bulls....Pages 206-209 Wool in Mediterranean regions: a forgotten and neglected product of sheep or a natural and renewable resource for the future?....Pages 210-213 Innovations have improved the efficiency of ruminant production systems in Cyprus....Pages 217-226 New morphological and weight measurements by visual image analysis in sheep and goats....Pages 227-232 An information system for the assessment of the threats to the heritage sheep breeds....Pages 233-236 Permanence of electronic ear tags in extensive rearing of Majorcan black pig....Pages 237-239 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Mediterranean pastorality 5 : sustainable know-how in search of development....Pages 243-254 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 The adoption of technical and organizational innovations and their impacts on dairy sheep breeding in Tunisia....Pages 255-263 Tradition and innovation in the Mediterranean pastoralism: recognition of its multiple roles for the sustainable development of rural areas....Pages 264-269 PDO project for Corsican pork as an innovation for the whole marketing chain....Pages 270-277 Innovation systems and processes in the field of agricultural direct marketing: a cross-national analysis between France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland....Pages 278-281 The role of the Mediterranean networks of cooperative research in animal production in favor of innovation: situation and outlooks for the future....Pages 282-286 Front Matter....Pages 287-287 Innovative strategies of organic beef producers in Italy....Pages 289-295 Use of homeopathy in parasite control in a flock of Zerasca sheep....Pages 296-300 Innovating on welfare: an added value?....Pages 301-306 The use of grazing pastures in goat production: development of an approach to combine optimized use of the forage resource and the control of related risks....Pages 307-316 Silvopastoral innovation in North Mediterranean livestock farming systems: current knowledge and prospects for technical support....Pages 317-320 The role of secondary compounds in foraging on Mediterranean rangelands....Pages 321-324 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Traditions in Mediterranean livestock activities: obstacle or source of innovations?....Pages 325-331 Front Matter....Pages 333-333 An overall view on recent innovations in Mediterranean Livestock Farming Systems....Pages 335-337 Back Matter....Pages 339-344