Precision livestock farming in developing countries: creating order where uncertainty prevails

Brigitte A. Kaufmann

Precision livestock farming in developing countries: creating order where uncertainty prevails

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Brigitte A. Kaufmann

Brigitte A. Kaufmann Institute for Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics, Hohenheim University (480a), Garbenstr. 17, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany bkaufman@uni-hohenheim.de

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Pages:: 327â335

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-548-2_041

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In resource poor systems, knowledge on the animals, processes and the environment forms the basis for the daily decision making of the livestock keepers. However, their ways to control the production process has so far been largely ignored in production system research. The aim of the present paper is to devise a systematic approach to describe and analyse the management of livestock keepers in resource poor systems. The control loop is used to analyse the information flow in the production system.

The analysis reveals the distinctions made by livestock keepers, what they consider as information in their production process and upon which rules they base their actions. It shows how far the livestock keepers in resource poor systems are able to control the production, i.e. create order and reduce uncertainty, and which aspects remain uncontrollable to them. Following the precision livestock farming approach the results form the basis for the identification of relevant traits for assessment by researchers e.g. in the form of recording systems in order to provide feedback to the livestock keepers on their success or to develop methods to improve the monitoring capabilities of the livestock keepers themselves in order to increase their possibilities to control production.

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Precision Livestock Farming â05

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2005

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