Conservation contracts for supplying Farm Animal Genetic Resources (FAnGR) conservation services in Romania

Wainwright, Warwick; Glenk, Klaus; Akaichi, Faical; Moran, Dominic

doi:10.1016/j.livsci.2019.03.016

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“…Social and economic pressures have exposed at least 1000 livestock breeds to the risk of extinction [30], with cattle having the highest number of extinct breeds [27]. The main causes of genetic erosion of indigenous cattle breeds is their marginalisation in favour of elite exotic cattle breeding lines and the subsequent unstructured crossbreeding [14,31,32]. Although crossbreeding programmes between exotic and indigenous breeds were intended to improve biological and economic efficiency [33], their unstructured nature has produced non-descript crossbred cattle that are currently dominant in most smallholder farming areas in Southern Africa [7,33].…”

Section: Genetic Diversity Of Cattle Breeds In Southern Africamentioning

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Strategies for Sustainable Use of Indigenous Cattle Genetic Resources in Southern Africa

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Indigenous cattle breeds are the most important livestock species in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region owing to their role in human food, nutrition, income, and social security. Despite the role of these breeds in the household and national economies, they are currently underutilised, their productivity remains low, and populations are faced with extinction. In addition, there are insufficient measures taken to secure their present and future value. The current review highlights strategies for sustainable use of indigenous cattle genetic resources in the region, including the use of novel production and marketing practices, women and youth empowerment, and development of the appropriate capacity building, legislative, and policy structures. At present, the lack of coordination among the different stakeholders still poses a challenge to the implementation of these strategies. To this end, partnerships, collaboration, and stakeholders’ participation are recommended to effectively implement strategies for sustainable use of indigenous cattle breeds.

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Section: Genetic Diversity Of Cattle Breeds In Southern Africamentioning

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Strategies for Sustainable Use of Indigenous Cattle Genetic Resources in Southern Africa

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“…In order to deal with the effects of globalization, urbanization, mechanization, increase in world population, global warming and climate change, it is urgently needed to transform our agriculture and livestock farming systems to more sustainable agriculture by taking into account the environmental considerations (fight against climate change, genetic characterization and monitoring of local breeds which are well adapted to the local environment, preserving and redeploying biodiversity endangered breeds) [1,2]. Moreover, this transformation aims also to provide a fair and stable income and good working conditions to farmers and could contribute significantly to social equity and local economies [3][4][5].…”

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Use of multivariate analysis as a tool in the morphological characterization of the main indigenous bovine ecotypes in northeastern Algeria

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Sustainability in livestock farming requires monitoring of autochthonous breeds which are well adapted to the local environment. The morphometric measurements seem to be the first approach which can provide useful information on the suitability of animal genetic resources for selection. In this work, thirteen morphometric variables were used for the phenotypic characterization of 130 adult autochthones cattle randomly selected from 30 local farms in Guelma. There were cases from four commonly accepted and traditional ecotypes: Guelmois, Cheurfa, Sétifien and Fawn. The results showed several and significant positive correlations between the different variables. Correlations were analyzed using Varimax orthogonal rotation PCA and three factors were extracted, which explain more than 75% of the total variation in the four ecotypes. Stepwise discriminant analysis showed that 6 of the 13 variables had discriminatory power to define the phenotypic profile of the ecotypes. Canonical discriminant analysis indicated that the Sétifien ecotype is separate from the other three ecotypes. Mahalanobis distances were significant between the different ecotypes except for the distance between the Guelmois and Fawn ecotypes. The cross-validation procedure assigned 91.42% of the Sétifien animals to their genetic group, while the percentages of animals assigned to the Cheurfa, Guelmois and Fawn ecotypes were 80.00%, 65.71% and 53.33% respectively. The multivariate approach has proven to be effective in differentiating the four ecotypes, with clear morphological differences from the Sétifien ecotype that may benefit from a genetic improvement program for more sustainable genetic resources preservation.

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“…More attention should also be paid to the implementation arrangements, as was also noted in the Romanian context [ 18 ], which is revealed to be an important cause for farmer dissatisfaction with the current scheme. Such dissatisfaction primarily results from the fact that obligations are either difficult to accommodate in practice or are time-consuming and do not generate value for their operations.…”

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“…However, its application in the context of biodiversity has been limited (less than 2% of the PES schemes evaluated by Grima et al [ 14 ]) and that related to agrobiodiversity even more. Examples include EU support payments for threatened livestock breeds under Regulations 1257/99 [ 15 ] and 1750/99 [ 16 ]; and crop genetic resource-related payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS) schemes from Latin America, Zambia and India (see Drucker and Ramirez [ 17 ], Wainwright et al [ 18 ], and Krishna et al [ 19 ]).…”

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“…Wainwright et al [ 18 ], using a stated preference approach, provide a rare example of a (hypothetical) livestock breed-related conservation tender approach in Romania. They find that while farmer willingness to accept (WTA) was well within the range of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) support payments available, relatively few farmers (8%) were actually likely to qualify for such support.…”

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Payments for Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Agriculture: One Size Fits All?

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Local livestock breeds in Slovenia have been eligible for financial incentives in the form of a fixed payment per livestock unit (LU) since 2002. The scheme has however not been successful in reversing the erosion of animal genetic resources (AnGR). This paper investigates an alternative, whereby incentive payments would better reflect breeders’ actual opportunity costs. The paper contributes to the limited existing body of knowledge related to the use of tender mechanisms in the design of the payments for agrobiodiversity conservation schemes (PACS), particularly for AnGR. Empirical findings draw on the results of a stated preference survey involving 301 farmers in Slovenia, engaging, or being potentially able to engage, in the rearing of local pig, sheep and goat breeds. Interval and logistic regression model results suggest that willingness to accept (WTA) conservation support significantly differs from actual payment levels. The estimated WTA was found to be 27% lower for the local sheep and goat breeds and 5% higher for the local pig breed, suggesting that differentiated incentive payments would provide a more cost-effective alternative. Additional analysis of breeders’ preferences and motives for engaging in local livestock breed production further informs understanding regarding AnGR conservation policy and the importance of accompanying actions to reverse negative population trends. These include reducing administrative barriers and enhancing the market valorisation of local breeds.

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Conservation contracts for supplying Farm Animal Genetic Resources (FAnGR) conservation services in Romania

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Strategies for Sustainable Use of Indigenous Cattle Genetic Resources in Southern Africa

Strategies for Sustainable Use of Indigenous Cattle Genetic Resources in Southern Africa

Use of multivariate analysis as a tool in the morphological characterization of the main indigenous bovine ecotypes in northeastern Algeria

Payments for Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Agriculture: One Size Fits All?

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