''The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture'' is a major report on the

genetic resources Genetic resources are genetic material of actual or potential value, where genetic material means any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity. Genetic resources is one of the three levels of biod ...

of breeds of farm livestock in the world. It was published by the

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

(FAO) in 2007. It covers mammalian and

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domestic livestock breeds, but does not include

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and other

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. It is based on information submitted to the FAO, in the form of reports of participating countries, thematic studies prepared by experts and data on individual breeds submitted to

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. An annex to the report, the ''List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources'', gives an estimate of

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for all breeds for which sufficient data had been received. The report has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Russian and Spanish. In 2015 a second edition of the report, ''The Second Report on the State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources'', was published. The second report emphasizes changes in the status and management of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture that occurred in the eight-year period following the publication of the original version. The second report has been translated into Chinese.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations reports 2007 in the United Nations 2007 documents