Session 17. Programme and elections meeting followed by Free communications on Livestock Farming Systems

Date: 25 August ‘08; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Ingrand (FR)

Theatre Session 17

• Possibilities of adaptation of mountain beef cattle systems to the changing socio-economic conditions
  García-Martinez, A., A. Bernués and A.M. Olaizola
• Local breeds into technical and cultural stakes: the case of Oulmès cattle breed from Morocco
  Chatibi, S., A. Araba and F. Casabianca
• How French dairy farmers adapt their labour? Relationships between workforce and farm management
  Hostiou, N. and S. Cournut
• Understanding the reproductive performance of a dairy cattle herd by using both analytical and systemic approaches
  Gouttenoire, L., J.L. Fiorelli and S. Cournut
• A framework to model the diversity of reproduction strategies in ruminant livestock farms: application to dairy herds
  Cournut, S., T. Pacaud, S. Ingrand and B. Dedieu
• Are farmers like any other businessmen? Highlighting transformations in the professions of farmers in France
  Couzy, C. and A.C. Dockes
• Technical-economic study of the sheep and goat farm system of the northwest of Dominican Republic
  Valerio, D., A. Garcia, J. Perea, R. Acero and M. Romero
• Income transfers from a flat area-based payment in Ireland
  Dunne, W. and U. Shanahan
• Strategies for the end of suckler cow farmers’ careers without known successor
  Veysset, P., J. Broutard and S. Ingrand

Poster Session 17

• Contribution to innovation processes: a review of livestock farming systems models
  Pacaud, T. and S. Cournut
• Differences in diet selection and grazing behaviour between equines and cattle grazing on upland vegetation communities
  Osoro, K., L.M.M. Ferreira, U. García and R. Celaya
• Structural characterization of the sheep-goat system of the northwest region of Dominican Republic
  Valerio, D., A. Garcia, J.M. Perea, V. Rodriguez, R. Acero and M. Romero
• Characterization of organic ovine farms in Andalusian Dehesa
  Garcia, A., J.M. Perea, D. Valerio, M. Romero, V. Rodriguez, R. Acero and G. Gomez
• New type of brown dairy cattle in Kazakhstan
  Torehanov, A., Z. Sulenov and T. Karymsakov
• Animal fiber production in Turkey and its contribution to the sustainable rural life-the case study: the economic and structural analyses of the plants producing haircloth tent and mohair products
  Erdoğan, Z., G. Dellal, F. Söylemezoğlu, İ. Dellal and İ. Baritci
• Effect of housing system and sex on growth, carcass characteristics and meat quality of fattening rabbits
  Pinheiro, V., S. Silva, J. Silva, D. Outor-Monteiro, A. Lourenço and J.L. Mourão