Management of Animal Genetic Diversity at Community Level
| dc.creator | Ilse Köhler-Rollefson;Animal Production and Health Division | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-28T21:05:37Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-28T21:05:37Z | |
| dc.date | 2000 | |
| dc.date | 2019-05-30T15:15:32Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T20:13:35Z | |
| dc.description | Domestic animal diversity in developing countries is embedded in traditional farming and pastoral communities who manage their livestock according to their indigenous knowledge (IK) and in tune with local ecological constraints. Especially in marginal environments, local livestock breeds are crucial for sustaining rural livelihoods by producing a wide range of products while requiring relatively low levels of input with regard to fodder, management and health care. Thus their maintenance is ecologically more sustainable and they entail a lower work load for women in comparison with improved breeds. However, economic forces of globalization as well as political backing for crossbreeding with exotic breeds, among other factors, have already resulted in the disappearance of a large number of these breeds and many more are threatened. | |
| dc.format | 17 | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/x6103e | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/a-x6103e.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/188088 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.rights | Non-FAO | |
| dc.title | Management of Animal Genetic Diversity at Community Level | |
| dc.title | Management of Animal Genetic Diversity at Community Level | |
| dc.title | Eschborn, August 2000 | |
| dc.type | Book (stand-alone) |