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In covering the animal production sciences, we present our three newest titles. ‘Animal production and animal science worldwide’ the fourth book in the successful WAAP Book of the year series. The book offers an updated and complete picture of the animal industry and of livestock science worldwide. This is an important purchase for libraries, in that it offers high-quality, updated relevant information on global animal science developments. The second title, ‘Formula for the future: nutrition or pathology’ addresses health and nutrition issues of pig and poultry production. It covers in depth the importance of digestive function and the influence of nutrition on health and disease. Another new book ‘Breeding for robustness in cattle’ is unique in that it summarizes the available knowledge on this topic, focussing on farm animal level including aspects like evolution, genetics, environment, animal health and welfare, and integrity.

We have one new plant science publication. ‘On the political economy of plant disease epidemics - Capita selecta in historical epidemiology’ is of interest to plant pathologists, historians, economists and sociologists, interested in plant disease history, with a focus on food.

Still much is unknown about the net release of carbon dioxide and what the impacts of sugar cane expansion are on green house gas emissions. ‘Sugarcane ethanol - Contributions to climate change mitigation and the environment’ looks at the scientific base of the debate on sugar cane bio ethanol. This publication discusses public policy impacts, technology developments, the fuel-food dilemma and the millennium development goals.

Finally, ‘Biotechnology in development - Experiences from the south’ is a book with four documentaries in the enclosed dvd. It points out the possibility of going beyond the pro/anti debate to a 'third way': tailor-made biotechnology. In different contexts such as farmers' fields schools in India, urban agriculture in Cuba, participatory plant-breeding in Ecuador and food networks in Ghana, it is shown how biotechnology is re-made from a social perspective. Farmers, scientists and villagers work together in decentralized networks to develop new products.

New publications

	Breeding for robustness in cattle - Eaap 126 edited by: Marija Klopcic, Reinhard Reents, Jan Philipsson and Abele Kuipers

	Animal production and animal science worldwide - Waap 2007 edited by: A. Rosati, A. Tewolde and C. Mosconi

	Profiting from external knowledge Maarten Batterink

	On the political economy of plant disease epidemics J.C. Zadoks

	Biotechnology in development Guido Ruivenkamp

	Sugarcane ethanol edited by: Peter Zuurbier and Jos van de Vooren

	Formula for the future: nutrition or pathology? edited by: J.A Taylor-Pickard, Z. Stevenson and K. Glebocka

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