Livtools: Tools for estimating and simulating livestock productions in tropical extensive farming systems

Herd growth models

• mmage  A R package for demographic projections of tropical ruminant livestock populations

• Dynmod  A simple spreadsheet interface for demographic projections of tropical ruminant livestock populations

Parameters

• laserdemog  Discrete-time calculation of demographic parameters using Laser data

• Guidelines  Guidelines to gather demographic parameters

Herd monitoring methods

• Laser  An animal-based monitoring survey method (demography, milk, live weight, health, artificial insemination, etc.)

• 12mo  A 12-month retrospective survey method (demography)

Other

• Rstat  Training materials on statistical data analysis with the R software

Related links

• R  - A free software environment for statistical computing and graphics

• GuR  - A francophone forum on the statistical R software (In French )

• PIGTrop  - The information center about pig productions in developing countries

• Camelides  - Camels: Biology and breeding (In French )

• FAOSTAT  - On-line FAO statistical database relating to food and agriculture

• DAGRIS  -  Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System