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	Document type :	Scientific congresses and symposiums : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Life sciences : Animal production & animal husbandry Life sciences : Genetics & genetic processes Life sciences : Agriculture & agronomy
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/21121

Title :	An integrated view of technical, economic and social factors influencing sustainabiligy of sixteen local European cattle breeds
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Martin-Collado, D. [INIA (Madrid - Spain) > Mejora Genética Animal > > >]
	Diaz, C. [INIA (Madrid - Spain) > Mejora Genética Animal > > >]
	Choroszy, Z. [NRIAP ( Krakow - Poland) > > > >]
	Duclos, D. [Institut de l'Elevage (Paris - France) > > > >]
	Bay, Elodie [Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux - FUSAGx > Unité de Zootechnie > > >]
	Hiemstra, S. J. [CGN (Lelystad - The Netherlands) > > > >]
	Kearney, F. [ICBF (Cork - Ireland) > > > >]
	Mäki-Tanila, A. [MTT ( Jokioinen - Finland) > Agrifood Research > > >]
	Viinalass, H. [EMÜ (Tartu - Estonia) > > > >]
	Gandini, G. [UNIMI (Italy) > > > >]
Publication date :	Aug-2009
Main document title :	Book of Abstracts of the 60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
Publisher :	Wageningen Academic Publishers
Pages :	77
On invitation :	No
Audience :	International
ISBN :	978-90-8686-121-7
Country :	The Netherlands
Event name :	60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
Event date :	du 24 août 2009 au 27 août 2009
Event organizer :	European Association for Animal Production
Event place (city) :	Barcelona
Event country :	Spain
Keywords :	[en] SWOT ; EURECA ; local cattle breed ; Survey ; Dual Purpose Belgian Blue ; Dual Purpose Red and White
Abstract :	[en] This study aims to identify common patterns influencing dynamics and sustainability of 16 local European cattle breeds from Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy and Spain. A broad range of factors related to technical (e.g. farm size, cows/ha, land ownership), economic (e.g. cattle importance on farm and family income, type of market) and social (e.g. farmers and stakeholders attitude) aspects were surveyed on a total of 401 farms. Discriminant Analysis has been used to study the implications that heterogeneity within and across countries and breeds may have in making inferences in across country or breed analyses. Thus, farms were classified according to country and breeds. Then the objective was to evaluate how all factors available allow us to distinguish such classes. The analyses provided the percentage of observations (farms) that should not be included in the pre-defined groups (country and breed) according to the variables considered. When only economic variables were considered in the analyses, 36% and 59% of farms were incorrectly assigned to their country and breed, respectively. However, considering technical variables the proportions went down to 33% and 45%. Finally, when both groups of variables were considered 20% and 35% of farms were incorrectly assigned. To what extent these mismatches may allow us to identify general patterns has to be evaluated.
Funders :	Fonds Européen de Développement Régional - FEDER ; Région wallonne : Direction Générale opérationnelle de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Naturelles et de l'Environnement - DGARNE
Name of the research project :	EURECA
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/21121
Other URL :	http://www.eaap.org/Barcelona/Book_Abstracts.pdf

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