Bringing livestock back into the fold: animal research in the Annals of Applied Biology —past, present and future
Robinson, P.A. (2022) Bringing livestock back into the fold: animal research in the Annals of Applied Biology —past, present and future. Annals of Applied Biology.
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Abstract
In 2019, editorial the journal's previous Editor-in-Chief, the late Professor Simon Leather, announced my appointment as a new Senior Editor responsible for farm animal health and welfare, a subject area that had not featured significantly in the Annals of Applied Biology for many years (Leather, 2019). Despite this hiatus in the publishing of applied livestock research in the journal, a look into the archives demonstrates that animals were by no means ignored in the journal's past, but fell out of favour over time, with a plant and crop-based focus predominating. In this editorial, I briefly review the coverage of farm livestock and other vertebrates of interest to agriculture and food production in the journal stretching back to its beginnings more than a century ago, and then comment on how these debates around health and welfare challenges from history continue today. Some of these challenges and opportunities will be discussed later, but the editorial begins by reviewing production animal coverage in the journal's past, both terrestrial and aquatic, while not ignoring some wildlife species that have also been featured because of their impacts on agricultural productivity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Animal Health, Behaviour and Welfare (from 1.09.21) |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Rachael Giles |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2022 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2023 04:30 |
| URI: | https://hau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17818 |
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