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Economic evaluation for conservation of farm animal genetic resources
Author(s) -
Roosen J.,
Fadlaoui A.,
Bertaglia M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of animal breeding and genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.689
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1439-0388
pISSN - 0931-2668
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2005.00530.x
Subject(s) - valuation (finance) , econometric model , genetic resources , contingent valuation , breed , biodiversity conservation , biodiversity , value (mathematics) , environmental resource management , natural resource economics , computer science , economics , econometrics , willingness to pay , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , biology , microeconomics , accounting , machine learning
Summary The decline in biodiversity of farm animal genetic resources (AnGR) has come to the forefront of concern in the discussion of animal conservation and breeding programmes. To improve decision‐making regarding conservation and breeding programmes, a number of evaluation techniques of farm AnGR are available. This paper presents an overview of the different values associated to AnGR and of the techniques for their measurement being employed in the economic literature. Those include linear programming and farm simulation models, dynamic models estimating the value of research and development and econometric models estimating the demand for breed characteristics. While farm programming and simulation models are fairly well developed, they do have large data requirements. Alternatively, contingent valuation methods are available, in particular when the goal is to capture non‐market values embedded in breeds.