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Animal production

Satisfying growing demand for animal protein in developing countries is a major challenge for the coming twenty years. However, animal production uses large amounts of agricultural land and biomass. Should demand be managed on a global level? The issues vary from one species to another, but they raise a certain number of general questions that 热博体育 is working to solve.

Books and documents

  • Biodiversity and health: Linking life, ecosystems and societies, Morand S., Lajaunie C. (ed.), London, ISTE, 2018
  • Communautés locales et utilisation durable de la faune en Afrique centrale, N. Van Vliet, J.C. Nguinguiri, D. Cornelis, S. Le Bel (ed.), FAO, CIFOR, 热博体育, 2017
  • La prochaine peste : une histoire globale des maladies infectieuses, Serge Morand, Fayard, 2016
  • , Muriel Figuié, Serge Morand (ed.), Quæ, 2016
  • Estelle Biénabe, Denis Loeillet, Alain Rival (ed.), Quæ, 2016
  • Voies lactées : dynamique des bassins laitiers entre globalisation et territorialisation, M. Napoléone, C. Corniaux, B. Leclerc, Cardère, 2015
  • The impact of a decade (2004-2015) of research on vector-borne diseases, Renaud Lancelot, Sylvie Laurens, Andrew Lewer (ed.), 热博体育, 2015
  • Filières laitières et développement de l’élevage en Afrique de l’Ouest : l’essor des minilaiteries, C. Corniaux, G. Duteurtre, C. Broutin (ed.), Karthala, 2014
  • , Henri-Dominique Klein, Georges Rippstein, Johann Huguenin, Bernard Toutain, Hubert Guerin, Dominique Louppe, Quæ-CTA-Presses agronomiques de Gembloux, 2014
  • Transfrontier conservation areas, Jens A. Andersson, Michel de Garine-Witchatitsky, David H.M. Cumming, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Ken E. Giller, Earthscan, 2012
  • , Matthieu Lesnoff, Renaud Lancelot, Charles-Henri Moulin, Quæ, 2011
  • (3e éd.), Barbara Dufour, Pascal Hendrikx, Quæ, 2011
  • Philippe Lhoste, Michel Havard, Éric Vall, Quæ-CTA-Presses agronomiques de Gembloux, 2010
  • Guide de co-construction d’indicateurs de développement durable en aquaculture, H. Rey-Valette et al., 热博体育-IFREMER-INRA-IRD-University of Montpellier 1, 2008.

Journal

, a quarterly scientific journal on animal production and health in tropical regions.

Scientific websites


Africa-Milk supports the co-design and application of technical, organizational and institutional innovations aimed at boosting and securing local milk supplies in two ways: ecological intensification of milk production and development of inclusive dairy basins.


The STRADIV project aims to build a multidisciplinary toolkit on plant diversity within agrosystems, to support their transition to ecologically intensive systems and define generic rules.


This projet, funded by MUSE (Montpellier University of Excellence), aims to use Earth observation data to model landscape use by wildlife and domestic animal populations, to better characterize contacts and what determines those contacts at wildlife/domestic animal interfaces and estimate the risk of pathogen transmission.


The MALIN collaborative project aims to improve infectious human, animal and plant disease control in Guadeloupe and the rest of the Caribbean. It associates a range of organizations in Guadeloupe involved in understanding, monitoring and controlling those diseases, and relies on a multidisciplinary approach that combines microbiology, epidemiology, entomology and socioeconomics.


In February 2017, 热博体育 was designated EU reference laboratory for peste des petits ruminants. Its website offers European laboratories background information on the disease.

Scientific publications

Dictionary of animal science (in French)