Sustainable Goat Production in Adverse Environments: Volume I

1. Introductory Chapter: Is There a Future for Goat Pastoral Systems?
Serge Yan Landau

Part I. Sustainability and Socio-economic Aspects in Goat Production

2. Sustainability of Local Goat Genetic Resources in the Mediterranean Region
Dehouegnon Jerry Agossou, Nazan Koluman (Darcan)

3. Goat Production in Eastern Africa: Practices, Breed Characteristics, and Opportunities for Their Sustainability
Anne W. T. Muigai, Ally M. Okeyo, Julie M. K. Ojango

4. Socio-Economic Aspects of Goat Farming in Arid Environments. The Example of Turkey
Ufuk Gültekin, Osman Torun, Nazan Koluman (Darcan)

Part II. Reproductive Strategies and Genetic Improvement

5. Reproductive Strategies for Goat Production in Adverse Environments
Alejo Menchaca, Rodolfo Ungerfeld

6. Using Socio-Sexual Stimulations for Sustainable Goat Production Under Subtropical Latitudes
José A. Delgadillo, Philippe Chemineau, Matthieu Keller

7. Threatened Goat Breeds from the Tropics: The Impact of Crossbreeding with Foreign Goats
Maria N. Ribeiro, Laura Leandro Rocha, Francisco F. Ramos Carvalho, Roberto G. Costa, Janaína K. Gomes Arandas, Neila L. Ribeiro

8. Genetic Improvement of Local Goats
Nuno Carolino, António Vicente, Inês Carolino

Part III. Goat Nutrition, Nutritional Disorders and Meat Quality

9. Murciano-Granadina Goat Nutrition Including Local Feed Resources
Eduarda Molina-Alcaide, Manuel Romero-Huelva

10. Synergies Between Goat Grazing and Shrub Biomass in Mountain Areas
Duarte Marques, Marco Fachada, Hélder Viana

11. Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders in Dairy Goats
João Simões, Carlos Gutiérrez

12. Goat Meat Production in Resource-Constrained Environments and Methods to Improve Quality and Yield
Edward C. Webb, Pamela Pophiwa

Part IV. Health Management and Public Health

13. Major Infectious Diseases with Impact on Goat Production in North African Countries
Moustafa Kardjadj, Meriem H. Ben-Mahdi

14. Health and Welfare of Indigenous Goat Breeds from Dairy Farms in Greece
Athanasios I. Gelasakis, Georgios E. Valergakis, Georgios Arsenos

15. Diagnosis of Mycobacteriosis in Goats: Tuberculosis and Paratuberculosis
Hélder Quintas, Isabel Pires, Justina Prada, Maria Conceição Fontes, Ana Cláudia Coelho

16. Facing Anthelmintic Resistance in Goats
Carine Paraud, Christophe Chartier

17. Haemoparasitism of Goats and Sheep
Snorre Stuen

18. Understanding Mastitis in Goats (I): Etiopathophysiological Particularities
Hélder Quintas, Gisele Margatho, Vicente Rodríguez-Estévez, João Simões

19. Understanding Mastitis in Goats (II): Microbiological Diagnosis and Somatic Cells Count
Hélder Quintas, Gisele Margatho, Vicente Rodríguez-Estévez, Rocío Jiménez-Granado, João Simões

20. Control Strategies to Face Major Tropical and Subtropical Diseases Affecting Goats
Carlos Gutiérrez, João Simões

21. Microbiological Safety of Goat Milk and Cheese: Evidences from a Meta-Analysis
Vasco A. P. Cadavez, Vânia Rodrigues, Ursula A. Gonzales-Barron

Part V. Climate Change, Environmental and Nutritional Stressors, and Goat Welfare

22. Climate Change and Goat Agriculture Interactions in the Mediterranean Region
Nazan Koluman (Darcan), Nissim Silanikove, Ahmet Koluman

23. Impact of Adverse Environmental Stress on Productive and Reproductive Performance in Osmanabadi Goats
Veerasamy Sejian, Madiajagan Bagath, Govindan Krishnan, Shalini Vaswani, Payyanakkal R. Archana, Prathap Pragna, Vijai P. Maurya, Raghavendra Bhatta

24. Heat Stress Effects on Water Metabolism of Goats in Harsh Environments
Nazan Koluman (Darcan), Ahmet Koluman, Dilek Arsoy

25. Why and How to Measure Goats’ Welfare
George Stilwell

Part VI. Conservation Priorities of Goat Populations

26. Conservation and Utilization of Indigenous Goats and Breeding of New Breeds in China
Chao Yuan, Ting-ting Guo, Jian-bin Liu, Yao-jing Yue, Bo-hui Yang

27. Genomics for the Improvement of Productivity and Robustness of South African Goat Breeds
Edgar F. Dzomba, Khanyisile Mdladla, Keabetswe T. Ncube, Farai C. Muchadeyi

28. Nuclear and Mitochondrial Marker-Based Diversity and Population Structuring of Indian Goats
Sonika Ahlawat, Rekha Sharma

29. Conservation of Goat Populations from Southwestern Europe Based on Molecular Diversity Criteria
Catarina Ginja, Oscar Cortés, Luís T. Gama, Juan V. Delgado, Marcel Amills, Carolina Bruno Sousa, Javier Cañón, Juan Capote, Susana Dunner, Ainhoa Ferrando, Mayra Gómez Carpio, Mariano Gómez, Jordi Jordana, Vincenzo Landi, Arianna Manunza, Inmaculada Martin-Burriel, Agueda Pons Barro, Clementina Rodellar, Fátima Santos-Silva, Natalia Sevane, Oriol Vidal, Pilar Zaragoza, Amparo M. Martínez

Keywords: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Vertebrates, Animal Physiology, Biodiversity