Livestock Diversity: Keepers's Rights, Shared Benefits and Pro-Poor Policies

Animal Production and Health Division

Livestock Diversity: Keepers's Rights, Shared Benefits and Pro-Poor Policies

Documentation of a Workshop with NGOs, Herders, Scientists, and FAO

Year of publication 2002

Pages 45

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Animal genetic material and related husbandry knowledge are becoming increasingly monopolized for private interests. Civil society and others, including indigenous communities, farmer organisations, and many scientists, are concerned about the rights of those communities who have developed seeds, breeds and related traditional knowledge. Moreover, the rate of extinction of livestock breeds is extremely high. FAO warns that out of the 6400 livestock breed it has documented, around one third are in danger of extinction or already extinct. In situ conservation is generally considered to be the most effective approach.

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