Language English Publication date 2007 Originally published 2007 | Genre international report ISBN 9789251057629 | |
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Subject Farm animal genetic resources Publisher Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is a major report on the breeds of farm livestock in the world. It was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2007. It covers mammalian and avian domestic livestock breeds, but does not include fish or bees. It is based on information submitted to the FAO, both in the form of reports of participating countries, and data on individual breeds submitted to DAD-IS. An annex to the report, the List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, gives an estimate of conservation status for all breeds for which sufficient data had been received.
In 2016 a second edition of the report, The Second Report on the State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources, was published. It was edited by Beate Scherf.