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An application of the use of safe minimum standards in the conservation of livestock biodiversity

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Title An application of the use of safe minimum standards in the conservation of livestock biodiversity
 
Creator Drucker, A.G.
 
Subject ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES
BIODIVERSITY
 
Description This paper adapts the safe minimum standard (SMS) approach so as to explore its use as a potential policy decision support tool that can be applied to issues related to the conservation and sustainable use of farm animal genetic resource (AnGR) diversity. Empirical SMS cost estimates are obtained using data from three AnGR economics case studies in Mexico and Italy. The findings support our hypothesis that the costs of implementing an SMS are low, both when compared with the size of subsidies currently being provided to the livestock sector (2.9).

Nevertheless, despite providing a potentially useful AnGR conservation decision support tool, a critical assessment of the application reveals that a much more extensive quantification of the components required to determine SMS costs needs to be undertaken before this tool can be applied in practice.
 
Date 2010-05-06T09:06:46Z
2010-05-06T09:06:46Z
2006
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Drucker, A. 2006. An application of the use of safe minimum standards in the conservation of livestock biodiversity. Environment and Development Economics 11(1):77-94.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/1392
 
Language en
 
Source Environment and Development Economics