| Formation | 8 November 1949 |
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| Type | INGO |
| Purpose | improvement of animal husbandry |
| Headquarters | Via G. Tomassetti 3, A/1 |
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| President | Matthias Gauly |
| Secretary General | Andrea Rosati |
| Main organ | council |
| Website | www |
The European Federation for Animal Science or EAAP (French: Fédération Européenne de Zootechnie; German: Europäische Vereinigung für Tierproduktion; Italian: Federazione Europea di Zootecnia ) is an international non-governmental organisation which aims to improve the farming of domestic animals. Membership is open to scientists, animal breeders and administrators. The association was founded in Paris in 1949, and has its headquarters in Rome, Italy. It was formerly known as the European Association for Animal Production.
Together with the British Society of Animal Science and the Institut national de la recherche agronomique, it issues the academic journal Animal, published by the Cambridge University Press.
History and purpose
The association was founded in Paris during the fifth International Congress on Animal Production. The inaugural meeting was held on 8 November 1949. Although the association was intended to be European in scope, the founding member countries were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Tunisia, and thus included parts of both Africa and Asia.
In 2023 the association had thirty-six member countries, made up of thirty-one European nations plus Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
References
- European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP): Statutes, September 2006. European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP). Accessed December 2013.
- ^ John Hodges (1999). Jubilee History of the European Association for Animal Production, 1949–1999 Livestock Production Science 60: 105–168.
- Michel Doreau (2007). Editorial: First Issue. Animal. 1 (1): 1. doi:10.1017/S1751731107658467.
- Isabel Casasús Pueyo (2023). How can the European Federation for Animal Science support the livestock sector in finding solutions for the challenges it faces?. Conference paper, International Symposium on Animal Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia, 18–20 September 2023.