24 Apr

Dr. Michèle Tixier-Boichard, WPSA President: “Better optimize than maximize”

“Scientific research in poultry is of great value”, says Dr. Michèle Tixier-Boichard from France, current President of the World’s Poultry […]

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Dr. Michèle Tixier-Boichard, WPSA President: “Better optimize than maximize”

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“Scientific research in poultry is of great value”, says Dr. Michèle Tixier-Boichard from France, current President of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA). “It strongly contributes to feeding the ever growing world population. But at some point, there may be a limit in ever increasing performance. We must find an optimal balance between production, animal welfare and environmental impact .”

In August last year, the four-yearly world congress of WPSA took place in Paris, France. As the chair of the congress, Dr. Michèle Tixier-Boichard was elected to serve in the position as WPSA president for the next four years, taking over from Professor Dr Ning Yang from China.

Members of WPSA are scientists from universities or research institutes,

As well as members of R&D divisions of private companies.

All with the objective to further improve and increase poultry production around the world.

Literally all continents are participating nowadays. Originally, mainly North America and European countries played the strongest part in WPSA. Over the years all other continents joined, which makes WPSA truly a pluriform and global organization.

Indeed, poultry production has strongly increased in Asia. Of course, countries differ from each other. Hence, there’s not one solution for all.
But there many similarities as well. That’s why sharing scientific knowledge is very useful for all countries, justifying the existence of WPSA.

It is a challenge for scientific research to find the right combination of approaches and disciplines to conduct trials and tackle problems like for infectious diseases.

Think of avian flu, which is threatening the poultry business on a global scale. There’s not one solution to eradicate the disease.

Instead, we must look at all factors and

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