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Fritz Schneider

Fritz Schneider is Vice Director, Swiss College of Agriculture, Bern University of Applied Sciences.

Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

Drivers, Consequences, and Responses

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains.