Desertification Combat And Food Safety: The Added Value Of Camel Producers (Nato Science Series I: Life and Behavioural Sciences)

Bernard Faye

ISBN 10: 1586034731 / ISBN 13: 9781586034733

Editore: IOS Press, 2005

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• Titolo: Desertification Combat And Food Safety: The Added Value Of Camel Producers (Nato Science Series I: Life and Behavioural Sciences)
• Editore: IOS Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1586034731
• ISBN 13: 9781586034733
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Like New
• Tipo di libro: book

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Riassunto

In these papers from workshops that united desert and camel scientists from western Europe, the Mediterranean and Central Asia, contributors address how to maintain animal productivity to satisfy human requirements in the desert in both quantity and quality. Papers from plenary sessions include a survey of new trends in camel sciences and the place of the camel in society, and studies of desertification in Central Asian countries, and camels of the Arvana breed. Topics include the history of domestication, participatory approaches to using camels in desertification, the wild Bactrian camel, environmental education and public awareness, camel-breeding in Kalmykia and Turkmenistan, methods of advising producers, standards for camel milk and new dairy methods, new data on adipocyte size and plasma leptin, human treatment with camel chal, pasturing, and wool and meat production. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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This publication brings together desert and camel scientists from Western European countries, Mediterranean countries and Central Asian Republics. Scientists from Central Asia are confronted with the demanding challenge of desertification and maintenance of animal productivity in order to satisfy human requirements both in quantity and quality. The problem is complex and solutions need a multidisciplinary investment. The knowledge of the desertification process and the place of animal production in desert ecosystem is increasing in many countries. New approaches and methodologies have been implemented for a better observation and understanding of the situation.

Desertification Combat and Food Safety contributes to the exchange between scientists in order to allow access to those new approaches and methodologies by all desert and camel scientists in the involved countries. Most contributors are well-known in the camel sciences community. All of them have significantly contributed to a better understanding of camel biology, camel productivity or of the camel as an element of the desert ecosystem. The confrontation of the research achieved in those countries with the scientific activities achieved in Central Asia is quite important. It contributes to the improvement of the methods used in those countries and at the very least helps the scientists from Central Asia to access more recent publications and to reach the international standard for publications.