Livestock in Tropical Farming Systems
Teaching Aids
Handouts | Videographic Material | Multimedia Library | Video Clip Library
The following is a list of handouts from class. These handouts are not online at this time.
Handout |
Content |
General Topic |
| 1 | Uses and demands for animals | Animals, households, farming systems, & economic environment |
| 2 | Production characteristics and economic objective functions | Same |
| 3 | Environment & animal responses | Basic science about livestock & ecologies |
| 4 | Grazing ecology, nutrition, and offtake | Same |
| 5 | Characteristics of tropical feeds, intake and selectivity | Same |
| 6 | Multi-purpose trees and shrubs (agroforestry) | Same |
| 7 | Livestock & value of straw from crops in rainfed marginal environments | Same |
| 8 | Nutrient flows, milk, reproduction and fitness in nutrient-limiting environments | Livestock systems genetic resources & interactions |
| 9 | Water buffalo | Same |
| 10 | Goats | Same |
| 11 | Swine | Same |
| 12 | Integrated tropical farming systems: sustainable production alternatives for small farmers | Genetic resources & interactions |
| 13 | Issues in genetic improvement of dairy and dual purpose cattle |