Implementing the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources Opportunities for collaboration Beate Scherf Animal Genetic Resources Group Animal Production and Health Division Food and Agriculture Organization

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Implementingthe Global Plan of Action for
Animal Genetic Resources Opportunities for
collaborationBeate ScherfAnimal Genetic
Resources GroupAnimal Production and Health
DivisionFood and Agriculture Organization
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Contents

• What we do?
• Examples of collaboration
• Potential future collaboration

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Livestock keepers manage animal genetic resources
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Management of livestock diversity

Understanding Using Developing Maintaining
Accessing
Conservation
Utilization
Successful management is technically
operationally challenging !
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Management of livestock diversity

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• Interlaken Declaration on Animal Genetic
  Resources

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Interlaken Declaration

• animal genetic resources are critical to food
  security sustainable livelihoods
• maintain use the full diversity of animal
  genetic resources to meet production challenges
• facilitate access to these resources, ensure
  fair equitable sharing of benefits arising from
  their use
• recognize contribution of local indigenous
  communities
• fill gaps in capacities to manage animal genetic
  resources
• mobilize new additional resources, long-term
  support for national international programmes

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• Global Plan of Action
• for Animal Genetic Resources

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Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources

• internationally agreed framework
• aims at sustainable use, development
  conservation of animal genetic resources
• supports increases overall effectiveness of
  national, regional and global efforts
• facilitates
• mobilization of resources
• development of institutions
• capacity building
• cooperation

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Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources

• Priority Areas
• Characterization, inventory monitoring of
  trends and associated risks (2 SP)
• Sustainable use development (4 SP)
• Conservation (5 SP)
• Policies, institutions capacity building (13
  SP)
• 23 Strategic Priorities for Action
• provide agenda for action

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Examples of collaboration with NGOs

• organization of workshops
• production of awareness raising material
  such as films
• preparation of publications and studies
• contribution to guidelines for AnGR
• development of case studies
• facilitation of State of the Worlds
  process at national / regional levels

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Potential future collaboration with NGOs

• INGO presence in intergovernmental mechanism
  Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and
  Agriculture and its Intergovernmental Working
  Group on Animal Genetic Resources
• voice of grass root level link to grass root
  level
• wish to identify a larger number of NGOs
  interested in the management of animal genetic
  resources
• ...and expand fruitful collaboration

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Thank you for your attention !