Economic evaluation for conservation of farm animal genetic resources

Roosen, Jutta; Fadlaoui, Aziz; Bertaglia, Marco

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0388.2005.00530.x

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“…The rapid increase obtained by crossbreeding was further reduced incentives for improvement of local chickens. Finally, the erosion process involves externalities linked to the quasi-public good nature of animal genetics (Roosen, Fadlaoui and Bertaglia, 2005). Indeed, a reduction in the number of households keeping the local chicken resulted in a drastic cut in the local genetic pool, realized by a decrease in the number of local poultry eggs sold for hatching in village markets, as reported by some experienced raisers in the survey.…”

Section: Motivations For Poultry Raising and Indigenous Genetic Resoumentioning

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Backyard poultry in Kabylie (Algeria): from an indigenous chicken to a local poultry breed?

Moula

Farnir

Salhi

et al. 2012

Anim. Genet. Resour.

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SummaryBackyard poultry is considered as a powerful tool for poverty alleviation. It is further promoted as a way of empowering women in communities where there is gender bias in poultry raising. The low-input systems involved are based on local breeds that are perfectly suited to their environment. However, socio-economic processes put local genetic resources under pressure, leading to the erosion of biodiversity. The present survey addresses this issue in the case of Kabylie, a mountainous coastal region of Algeria, through a survey conducted in 90 households raising poultry, a morpho-biometric description of 315 local chickens, and a performance evaluation of both growth and egg production in experimental semi-intensive conditions. The socio-economic profile of poultry smallholders in Kabylie reveals poor education and high diversification of agricultural assets and confirms gender bias in poultry keeping. The erosion of local genetic resources in chicken is found to be severe despite their cultural importance in Kabylie. From complementary surveys among experienced poultry keepers, the major original local type is postulated to consist of three varieties with black plumage (pure black, mottled and barred). The performance evaluation raised promising results, suggesting that exploiting the local breed could pursue some degree of improvement of low-input backyard systems. Finally, a strategy for a revival of the local breed through the support of the most involved smallholders is outlined in accordance with the information collected in the survey.Keywords: biodiversity, genetic resources, Kabylie, poultry, smallholder Résumé L'élevage de volailles d'arrière-cour constitue un outil important de lutte contre la pauvreté. Il est en outre promu comme mode de renforcement de la position féminine dans une communauté, sous réserve de l'observation dans les faits du biais de genre classiquement rapporté dans le contrôle de cet élevage. Les systèmes à faible niveau d'intrant concernés sont basés sur des races locales rustiques, adaptées à leur environnement. Néanmoins, des processus socio-économiques mettent sous pression ces ressources génétiques locales, menant à une érosion de la biodiversité. La présente étude aborde cette problématique dans le cas de la Kabylie, région côtière montagneuse de l'Algérie, au travers d'une enquête auprès de 90 ménages élevant des poules, d'un relevé morpho-biométrique réalisé sur 315 sujets locaux ainsi qu'une évaluation des performances de ponte et de croissance dans des conditions semi-intensives expérimentales. Le profil socio-économique des petits éleveurs de poules en Kabylie révèle un faible niveau de formation, une grande diversification de l'outil agricole et confirme le biais de genre mentionné plus haut. Une érosion génétique sévère a été trouvée, en dépit de l'importance culturelle de la poule en Kabylie. Une enquête complémentaire auprès d'éleveurs expérimentés indique que trois variétés de plumages noirs (noir pur, caillouté, barré) sont considérées comme constituant les ...

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Section: Motivations For Poultry Raising and Indigenous Genetic Resoumentioning

confidence: 98%

Backyard poultry in Kabylie (Algeria): from an indigenous chicken to a local poultry breed?

Moula

Farnir

Salhi

et al. 2012

Anim. Genet. Resour.

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“…Rege and Gibson (2003) describe animal genetic resources as vital for the economic development of most countries in the world, playing an important role in the livelihoods of many communities of developing countries. Moreover, this advocacy stresses the potential usefulness under alternative conditions of resources being neglected by their present users, as well as the need for biodiversity to allow for the development choices of future generations (Roosen et al 2005;FAO 2009). More precisely, livestock genetic diversity is key in animal health, as genetic uniformity makes populations vulnerable to diseases (Keneni et al 2012).…”

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Mapping stakeholder viewpoints in biodiversity management: an application in Niger using Q methodology

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the viewpoints of stakeholders in the management and conservation of farm animal biodiversity in Niger. The research applies Q methodology in order to reveal consensual and divergent discourses. After the development of the set of items on the topic of biodiversity (Q sample), the statements were sorted by the respondents through a 7-grade scale, from -3 to ?3. The analysis of Q-sort data with the qmethod package under the R software highlighted three distinct stakeholder viewpoints on the importance of biodiversity in agriculture and animal husbandry, the balance between progress and preservation and the effectiveness of different methods of conservation. The study shows an apparent consensus on the importance of biodiversity that is obviously a promoted topic in the country. Behind the consensus, different discourses are defined that all appear divided by the same dilemma between conservation and economic development. Understanding the different answers and weight attributed to each of the components of the dilemma will guide awareness-raising campaigns and help to pinpoint divergent interests among stakeholders.

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“…Newer approaches additionally apply a method of developing breeding objectives and calculating economic values for non-marketable traits, based on surveys among the local animal owners. For the theoretical approach see Olesen et al (2000) and Roosen et al (2005). This method was, for example, applied with pigs in Vietnam (Roessler et al 2008), llamas in Bolivia ) and Ankole cattle in Uganda (Wurzinger et al 2008).…”

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Development of organisation and planning in animal breeding: II. A review on breeding planning

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Breeding planning resp. planning of breeding measures as scientific discipline within animal breeding science has developed in close connection to quantitative genetics in the middle of the last century. From the beginning, breeding planning was mainly focussed on macroeconomic resp. national targets. This viewpoint has been maintained until today. This is in conflict with existing business oriented organisational structures in animal breeding. The present study gives an overview on the development of breeding planning. Based on five recent works on breeding planning it is shown that approaches have already been developed that allow for taking micro-and macroeconomic aspects into account when looking into the organisational structures. Building on these examples, the study aims at working out further approaches to breeding planning based on enterprise resource, supply chain and value added chain planning. Breeding planning combined with consideration of organisational structures and, where necessary, with organisational analysis allows to take the requirements of the private and the public sector into account. Thereto new research fields open up within animal breeding science.

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Economic evaluation for conservation of farm animal genetic resources

Cited by 31 publications

References 38 publications

Backyard poultry in Kabylie (Algeria): from an indigenous chicken to a local poultry breed?

Backyard poultry in Kabylie (Algeria): from an indigenous chicken to a local poultry breed?

Mapping stakeholder viewpoints in biodiversity management: an application in Niger using Q methodology

Development of organisation and planning in animal breeding: II. A review on breeding planning

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