Animal genetic resources and pastoralism Beate Scherf, Barbara Rischkowsky, Irene Hoffmann, Mateusz Wieczorek, Alberto Montironi, Ricardo Cardellino Animal Production

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Animal genetic resources and pastoralismBeate
Scherf,Barbara Rischkowsky, Irene Hoffmann,
Mateusz Wieczorek, Alberto Montironi, Ricardo
CardellinoAnimal Production Health
DivisionFood and Agriculture Organization of the
United NationsPresentor Evelyn Mathias, League
for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock
Development (LPP)
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Content

• Global status of animal genetic resources
• Pastoralism
• Animal genetic resources in drylands
• Threats to pastoralism

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Introduction

• Livestock genetic diversity for food and
  agriculture
• animal species that are used, or may be used, for
  the production of food and agriculture, and the
  populations within each of them
• populations within each species can be classified
  as wild and feral populations, landraces,
  standardized breeds, selected lines, varieties,
  strains and any conserved genetic material

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Global strategy
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What is pastoralism?

• Pastoralism adapted land use strategy
• Mobility and mix of species and breeds allows
• Use of scarce resources
• Adaptation to seasonal changes and climate
• Avoidance of diseases (e.g. tsetse flies)
• Possible through
• Use of species adapted to drylands (camel, yak,
  donkey)
• Development of adapted breeds (cattle, sheep,
  goat)

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Pastoralists

• 190 million (?) pastoralists
• Many different societies
• Occur especially in drylands deserts, steppes,
  and mountains

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Threats to pastoralism

• Value of pastoralism recognised only recently
• Threats (according to experiences LPP)
• Reduced access to resources e.g. grazing lands
  through
• agriculture (often irrigated)
• recently biofuels
• national parks
• Growing populations
• Conflicts
• Droughts
• Education that disregards value of traditions