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The economic valuation of farm animal genetic resources: a survey of available methods

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Title The economic valuation of farm animal genetic resources: a survey of available methods
 
Creator Drucker, A.G.
Gomez, V.
Anderson, S.
 
Subject ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES
BIODIVERSITY
 
Description Genetic erosion of domestic animal diversity has placed 30% of the world's breeds at risk of extinction, often as a result of government policy/programmes. Conservation and sustainable development of animal genetic resources (AnGR) require a broad focus that includes the many ‘adaptive’ breeds that survive well in the low external input agriculture typical of developing countries. Environmental economic valuation methodologies have an important role to play in supporting decisions regarding which breeds should be conserved and how this should be done. However, AnGR, in general, and valuation methods in particular, have received very little attention. This paper provides a survey of the methods available for the valuation of AnGR and the steps that must be taken in order to test some of the more promising methodologies in practice.
 
Date 2010-07-05T19:29:46Z
2010-07-05T19:29:46Z
2001-01-15
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Drucker, A.; Gomez, V.; Anderson, S. 2001. The economic valuation of farm animal genetic resources: a survey of available methods. Ecological Economics 36(1):1-18.
http://hdl.handle.net/10568/2015
 
Language en
 
Source Ecological Economics