1-4 December 2020 The main theme of this year’s virtual meeting is ‘Responsibility of animal production on climate change’ and deals with topics such as resource efficiency, animal welfare, diversification, agro-ecology, climate change. The program covers various disciplines such as animal genetics, animal health and welfare, animal nutrition, animal physiology, livestock...

8-12 August 2021, France​The poultry sector has major assets to meet the expectation of the world population, provided that it can anticipate changes needed for sustainable production systems. The WPC2021 should bring a major contribution to these challenges for the benefit of the world population. The...

2 to 12 November 2020 The 6th International Conference of Quantitative Genetics (ICQG6) will bring together researchers in agriculture, human health, natural species and evolutionary genetics from across the world united in their interest in understanding and translating the contribution of genetic variation of quantitative traits. They will...

This year’s event was created to reflect the wide interests of all ICAR members, with topics covering all species. The conference presented a comprehensive exposition about the lessons learned in the livestock breeding, demonstrating that the whole animal production sector need of coordinated and integrated actions to achieve intelligibility of...

Decisions made specifically on animal genetic resources are provided in paragraphs 81 to 92. The report on the Seventeenth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is now available. To download it click here. The Commission reiterated the importance of DAD-IS as a key tool for...