Livestock systems in European rural development  An international conference held at the Xenia Palace Hotel, Nafplio, Greece. 23rd-25th January 1997 (FOLLOW LINKS TO FULL PAPERS) Photo of participants Author's notes (pdf)

CHAPTER1 : Constraints on livestock systems in European disadvantaged areas

1 Identifying biological constraints acting on livestock systems in marginal areas
Iain Wright, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Scotland
2 Economic constraints on the development of animal production systems in disadvantaged areas.
Kostas Apostolopoulos, Charokopion University of Athens & George Mergos, University of Athens, Greece
3 Marginalisation of agricultural land in Europe
Floor Brouwer, David Baldock, Frans Godeschalk, Guy Beaufoy, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, The Hague, Holland

CHAPTER 2: Adding value to the products of livestock systems

4 Direct marketing of livestock products
Ralf Bokermann & Bernd Wirthgen, University of Kassel, Germany
5 On-farm processing of the products of livestock systems
Brian Revell, Scottish Agricultural College, Scotland &
Martine François, Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges Technologiques (GRET), France
6 Contribution of rural tourism to market livestock products in LFAs
Gerold Rahmann, Dept. of International Animal Husbandry, Witzenhausen, Germany

CHAPTER 3 CASE STUDY - Quality textile fibres

7 Animal fibres - Adding value through producer co-operation
Scott Andrews, Royal Agricultural College, UK

8 Location of optimal areas for the development of an alternative livestock species, the
cashmere goat
Kate Corcoran, Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, Edinburgh

CHAPTER 4:The role of livestock systems in the management of the environment

9 The role of livestock in habitat management
John Milne, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, UK &
Koldo Osoro, Instituto de Experimentación y Promoción Agraria, Spain
10 Extensive pasture systems in Germany- realising the value of environmental sustainability
Rainer Luick, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Baden-Wurtembürg, Germany

CHAPTER 5: Policy structures, livestock farming, and rural development

11 Support to livestock production in the least-favoured areas under the CAP
Eduardo Diez-Patier, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Spain
12 Beef farming in the UK LFA - farmer response to the 1992 CAP reform measures
and the implications for meeting world trade obligations.
Michael Winter, Alastair Rutherford, & Peter Gaskell, Countryside Commission / CGCHE, Cheltenham, UK

CHAPTER 6: Options for policy reform
13 Necessity for integration of agricultural, regional and environmental policy for disadvantaged rural areas
Siegfried Bauer, University of Giessen, Germany
14 Developing a conceptual framework for agricultural and environmental policy adapted to Mediterranean areas - some proposals derived from case studies.
François de Casabianca, Reseau de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Mediterranéennes, Corsica, France

APPENDIX

List of participants

21 Jan 1997