Ecological implications of minilivestock : potential of insects, rodents, frogs, and snails /

This book provides stimulating and timely suggestions about expanding the world food supply to include a variety of minilivestock. It suggests a wide variety of small animals as nutritious food. These animals include arthropods (insects, earthworms, snails, frogs), and various rodents. The major adv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paoletti, M. G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Enfield, (NH) : Science Publishers, ©2005.
Temas:
Minilivestock.
Minilivestock > Ecology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Minilivestock
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of contributors
  • 1. minilivestock environment, sustainability, and local knowledge disappearance / Maurizio Guido Paoletti and Angelo Leandro Dreon
  • 2. The minilivestock : environment, education, research, and economics / Jacques E. Hardouin
  • 3. Potential of rodents for minilivestock in Africa / Ferran Jori, David Edderai and Patrick Houben
  • 4. Rodent farming in the Amazon : experience with Amerindians in Venezuela / Guido Govoni, Denis Fielding and Maurizio G. Paoletti
  • 5. Frogs as food / Gianluigi Negroni
  • 6. Snail collection and small-scale production in Africa and Europe / Leslie J. Elmslie
  • 7. Overview of role of edible insects in preserving biodiversity / Gene R. DeFoliart
  • 8. Insects : food for human evolution / Mila Tommaseo-Ponzetta
  • 9. Minilivestock consumption in the ancient Near East : the case of locusts / Giovanni B. Lanfranchi
  • 10. Human consumption of lepidoptera, termites, orthoptera, and ants in Africa / François Malaisse.
  • 11. Insects eaten in Africa (coleoptera, hymenoptera, diptera, heteroptera, homoptera) / Arnold Van Huis
  • 12. Notes on edible insects of South Benin : a source of protein / Severin Tchibozo, Arnold Van Huis and Maurizio G. Paoletti
  • 13. Edible insects in Japan / Jun Mitsuhashi
  • 14. Insects : a hopeful food source / Julieta Ramos-Elorduy
  • 15. Edible invertebrates among Amazonian Indians : a critical review of disappearing knowledge / Maurizio G. Paoletti and Darna L. Dufour
  • 16. Edible insects in Ecuador / Giovanni Onore
  • 17. Palm work (coleoptera, curculionidae : rhynchophorus palmarum) a traditional food : examples from Alto Orinoco, Venezuela / Hugo Cerda, Y. Araujo, Robert H. Glew and Maurizio G. Paoletti
  • 18. Insect and other invertebrate foods of the Australian Aborigines / Alan L. Yen
  • 19. Traditional food insects and spiders in several ethnic groups of Northeast India, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand / Victor B. Meyer-Rochlow.
  • 20. Edible insects in the Laos PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam / Jintana Yhoung-Aree and Kanvee Viwatpanich
  • 21. Lessons from traditional foraging patterns in West Papua (Indonesia) / Mila Tommaseo-Ponzetta and Maurizio G. Paoletti
  • 22. Contemporary use of insects and other arthropods in traditional Korean medicine (hanbang) in South Korea and elsewhere / Robert W. Pemberton
  • 23. Insects as traditional food in China / Luo Zhi-Yi
  • 24. Medicinal terrestrial arthropods in China / Ding Zimian, Zhao Yonghua and Gao Xiwu
  • 25. Nutritive value of earthworms / Sun Zhenjun
  • 26. Pharmaceutical value and use of earthworms / Sun Zhenjun and Cheng Wenling
  • 27. House cricket small-scale farming / Alberto Collavo, Robert H. Glew, Yung-Sheng Huang, Lu-Te Chuang, Rebecca Bosse and Maurizio G. Paoletti.
  • 28. Insects in the human diet : nutritional aspects / Sandra G.F. Bukkens
  • 29. Hygiene and health features of "Minilivestock" / Valerio Giaccone
  • Minilivestock and Bedim. Association
  • Subject index
  • Species index
  • Colour plates section (Plates I-X).

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