Current Issues and New Trends in Meat Production

Code: ZOO10424M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Animal Science

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

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

Learning Goals

Aims:
To provide knowledge and stimulate students? autonomy to decide for the methodologies and productive systems more adjusted to specific situations. To decide on the best available instruments / approaches to increase the bio-economic efficiency of meat production.

Competences:
To realize what a specific situation is/means, to identify and to understand the main constraints, to solve problems or to apply the most appropriate technological solution, being able to clearly communicate knowledge and to argue for their decisions.

Characterization of the current situation and future opportunities inherent to the various animal production sectors, following along these lines: sustainability and interrelation with different environments, bio-economic efficiency (breeds; potential and adequate selection; production systems and modalities; and problematic of production approaches) and innovation, end-product segmentation and additional added value.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies: Formal lessons with topic presentations and discussions on possible solutions or alternative ways of enhancing productive efficiency. Field visits.
Evaluation: Monographic works, to be presented at specific seminars and a write test.