Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine in the Tropics

Code: ZOO14009I

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Sustainable Development Goals

Erradicar a pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

Erradicar a fome - Acabar com a fome, alcançar a segurança alimentar e melhoria da nutrição e promover a agricultura sustentável.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Trabalho digno e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

This course recovers thematic previously perceived in other U.C. but inserted in different geographic, climatic and social-economic contexts. The integration of these fundamental differences leads to a diversity of production systems, with different species and many different degrees of technological intensification.The skills to be acquired are developed in two main areas: scientific and professional. The scientifically it is intended to provide to the student the concepts and the knowledge for the elaboration of an alternative way of thinking. It is intended to create conditions for the student to be able to identify and understand less efficient situations relation with the production systems and to develop working hypotheses that study the possible factors of inefficiency. In the professional field, are expected that students can evaluate productive realities in several tropical environments and develop alternatives that elicit different approaches and productive options.

The Tropical environment, abiotic and biotic factors. Bioclimatology and Adaptation. Tropical parasitology. Gastrointestinal parasites, distribution, relationship with climatic types of prophylaxis methods and integrated control. Ectoparasites, insects and arachnids, importance, prophylaxis and management. Particularities of pathology in tropical environments and animal production in particular of ruminants bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases endemic. Epidemiological relevance and economic impact, preventive and prophylactic approach, the importance of vectors, differential diagnoses, prognosis and treatments. Agricultural production systems. Types of pastures and forages. Grasses and legumes. Pasture management and supplementation strategies. Silvopastoral systems and desertification. Production of cattle and small ruminants in extensive systems. Biotechnologies adapted to tropical regions. Water buffaloes Trypan-colorant animals. Programs for sanitary control and local, national

Teaching Methods

Due to the U.C. time limitation, it was decided to distribute the programmatic content that would fulfil the dual purpose: presenting the issues and discuss them and consolidating by revisiting them throughout the program. By this way, it is possible to emphasise the importance of the functional interdependencies and a better understanding of the subjects. Although teaching methods are based on theoretical-practical classes, it is possible to present some programmatic contents together to an applied aspect by using case studies. The approval to U.C. combines the result of the individual work - presented to teachers and other students at the end of the semester (30% weighting factor) and examen (70% weighting factor) as long as the examen score exceeds 9.5 values.