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Papers:

• A livestock development approach that contributes to poverty alleviation and widespread improvement of nutrition among the poor. Frands Dolberg

• Storage of carbon by Gliricidia sepium in agroforestry systems in Venezuela.; Karla Arias Sánchez, Carlos Ruiz-Silvera, Manuel Milla, Héctor Fabio Messa and Aquiles Escobar (En español)

• Utilisation of whole cassava plant in the diets of growing pigs in the tropics; E O Akinfala and O O Tewe

• Effect of phosphorus supplementation on postpartum performance of Pelibuey ewes under tropical conditions; Eduardo J Cabrera Torres, Arturo F Castellanos Ruelas, Rubén  Montes Perez y Roger Delgado De León (En español)

• Nutritive evaluation of tropical tree leaves for pigs. Flemingia (Flemingia macrophylla); Pok Samkol and J Ly

• Gastrointestinal parasites in sows kept in two production systems (indoor and outdoor) in the Mexican tropics; L Rodríguez Vivas, A Ortega Pacheco , C Y Machain Williams and  R Santos Ricalde (En español)

• Effects of treatment of rice straw with lime and/or urea on responses of growing cattle; Nguyen Xuan Trach, Magne Mo and Cu Xuan Dan

• Nutritional evaluation of tropical leaves for pigs: Pepsin/pancreatin digestibility of thirteen plant species; 
  J Ly, Pok Samkol and T R Preston 

• Estimates of breed and heterosis effects for some reproductive traits of Brown Swiss and Zebu-related breeds in southeastern Mexico; J  G Magaña and J C Segura-Correa

• Contrasts in grazing management and diet between goat herds owned by two ethnic groups in Rajasthan, India; C D Wood, V C Badve, D N Shindey and C Conroy

Posters

• Reproductive performance of Tswana and Simmental x Tswana crosses in smallholder farms in Botswana:  O R Madibela, W S Boitumelo and B Kiflewahid   

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