The role of sustainable commercial pig and poultry breeding for food security

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-57

  Neeteson van Nieuwenhoven, Anne Marie ^a   Knap, Pieter ^b   Avendaño, Santiago ^a  

^a Aviagen   (United States)

^b Genus PIC   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balanced selection; Food security; Pig breeding; Poultry breeding; Sustainable animal breeding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903882025     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2013-0008     Document Type: Article

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