Consult the official programme of the Symposium

The main papers are available freely below:

Meatmaster in South Africa: A development or terminal, hair sheep breed
Dr. Luis Manuel Justino Schwalach –South Africa

Vertical Alliance: Institutional innovation to commercialize the goat and sheep industry in South Africa
Dra. Merida Roets – South Africa

Sheep and Goat Meat Market: The Consumer approach and perceptionDr. Osler Desouzart – OD Consulting- Brazil

National Strategic Plan for Utuguay Sheep IndustryEng. Agr. Gerardo Garcia Pintos – Secretariado Uruguaio da Lã-Uruguay

Genetic improvement of goat and sheep in low-input, smallholder produtction systems: Technical and infrastructural issues.”
Dr. Isaac Sanga Kosgey – Egerton University- Quenia

Comparative studies between conventional and organic lamb meat productionDr. Christopher Lu – University of Hawaii at Hilo – USA

Multi-nutritional Blocks: an alternative of nutritional supplementation to enhance the sheep and goat produtction in arid regionsDr.Hichem Ben Salem – Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique – Tunisia.

Strategies for feeding sheep and goat in the Semi arid of Northeast of Brazil.Dr. Maurício M. Leite – Emepa/PB Brazil

Practical applications of modern reproduction techniques on sheep and goats in South AfricaDr. Johan Steyn – South Africa

Endoparasitose’s method control: A worldwide overviewDr. Luis da S. Viera – Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos-Brazil

Breed evaluations for health, reproductive and carcass traits in goat’s meat.
Dr.Richard Browning Jr. – Tennessee State University-USA

Challenges of search and seizure of forage by grazing sheep: building structures that
optimize pasture intake
Dr. Prof. Paulo C. de Faccio Carvalho – Rio Grande do Sul Federal University – Brazil.

Artificial insemination on commercial flocks of sheep and goats in Brazil: Actual status and perspectives.
Dr. José Carlos Ferrugem Moraes – Embrapa Pecuária Sul-Brazil

Sheep and goats National Health Program in Brazil.Dr. Carlos H. Pizarro Borges – DSA-SDA, MAPA –Brazil

Genetic improvement of overall reproductive success in sheep.
Dr. Gary D. Snowder – USA

Production system of sheep for meat on Southeast and Middle-West regions of Brazil: A
Proposal
Dr. Prof. Iran Borges – Minas Gerais Federal University-Brazil

Development and technologies’ transfers for sheep and goat productions by EMEPA/PB
Dr. Wandrick H. de Sousa – Emepa-PB – Brazil

Technology transfer network of sheep and goats’ production system.
Dr. Evandro de Vasconcelos Holanda – Embrapa Sheep and Goats-Brazil

Top-in-Life Project: Productive and management issues
Dr. Marcelo Roncoletta – Frigorífico Lamm – Brazil

Local Productive Arrangements (LPA’S) of sheep and goat production in Brazil: Activities and expectations
Dr. Marcos Otávio Bezerra Prates – MDIC-Brazil

Portugal Experience: Production and integrated commercialization of sheep and goats produtcts with origin denomination.
Dr. Alfredo Jorge Costa Teixeira – Politech Institute of Bragança –Portugal

Actions and projects to support the goat and sheep production to the development in the world: social, economic and envionment challenge Jean Paul Dubeuf –France.