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An integrated view of technical, economic and social factors influencing sustainabiligy of sixteen local European cattle breeds
Martin-Collado, D.; Diaz, C.; Choroszy, Z. et al.
2009In Book of Abstracts of the 60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
 

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Keywords :
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.
Disciplines :
Animal production & animal husbandry
Agriculture & agronomy
Genetics & genetic processes
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)
Language :
English
Title :
An integrated view of technical, economic and social factors influencing sustainabiligy of sixteen local European cattle breeds
Publication date :
August 2009
Event name :
60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
Event organizer :
European Association for Animal Production
Event place :
Barcelona, Spain
Event date :
du 24 août 2009 au 27 août 2009
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Book of Abstracts of the 60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
Publisher :
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Netherlands
ISBN/EAN :
978-90-8686-121-7
Pages :
77
Name of the research project :
EURECA
Funders :
FEDER - Fonds Européen de Développement Régional [BE]
SPW DG03-DGARNE - Service Public de Wallonie. Direction Générale Opérationnelle Agriculture, Ressources naturelles et Environnement [BE]
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