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Knowledge management and dissemination for livestock production: global opportunities and local constraints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

C.J. Garforth
C.J. Garforth*
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School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, PO Box 237, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK
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Science produces new knowledge relevant to agricultural production at a breathtaking pace. Despite concerns over the limited resources committed to publicly funded research, the number of articles in scientific journals and of papers and posters presented at scientific conferences continues to increase year on year. Increasing amounts of knowledge are also being generated in the commercial sector, some protected by commercial considerations but much of it contributing to the general stock of publicly available knowledge. Yet individuals have a limited capacity to attend to and take in new information.

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 33: Responding to the Livestock Revolution , 2004 , pp. 287 - 298
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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