1. Animal genetic resources and pastoralism Beate Scherf, Barbara Rischkowsky, Irene Hoffmann, Mateusz Wieczorek, Alberto Montironi, Ricardo Cardellino Animal Production & Health Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Presentor: Evelyn Mathias, League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP)

2. Content  Global status of animal genetic resources  Pastoralism  Animal genetic resources in drylands  Threats to pastoralism

3. 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

5. Global strategy

10. 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)

11. Pastoralists  190 million (?) pastoralists  Many different societies  Occur especially in drylands: deserts, steppes, and mountains

21. Threats to pastoralism  Value of pastoralism recognised only recently  Threats (according to experiences LPP)  Reduced access to resources e.g. grazing lands through oagriculture (often irrigated) orecently: biofuels onational parks  Growing populations  Conflicts  Droughts  Education that disregards value of traditions