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Assessing the diversity of preferences of suburban smallholder sheep keepers for breeding rams in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
| العنوان: | Assessing the diversity of preferences of suburban smallholder sheep keepers for breeding rams in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. |
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| المؤلفون: | Tindano, K., Moula, Nassim, Traore, A., Leroy, Pascal, Antoine-Moussiaux, Nicolas |
| المصدر: | Tropical Animal Health and Production, 49 (6), 1187-1193 (2017) |
| بيانات النشر: | Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Animal Husbandry/methods, Animals, Breeding/methods, Burkina Faso, Choice Behavior, Decision Making, Farmers/psychology, Male, Sheep, Domestic/physiology, Urbanization, Choice experiments, Sheep keepers, Willingness to pay, Life sciences, Animal production & animal husbandry, Sciences du vivant, Productions animales & zootechnie |
| الوصف: | peer reviewed ; Urbanisation in developing countries entails deep changes in the livestock sector and the management of animal genetic resources (AnGR). Sheep breeding around Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) illustrates these changes and the need to coordinate genetic improvement in general and the use of crossbreeding in particular. For this, it is important to understand breeders' choices and improvement strategy, to accompany them within a national plan for AnGR management. In a context of missing market for breeding rams, a stated choice experiment was conducted with 137 farmers, together with a characterisation of herd management practices. This survey analyses farmers' preferences for breeding rams, estimating their willingness to pay (WTP) for different traits (attributes). Their practices were characterised by a high reliance on natural pastures (82% of farmers) and a minority of crossbreeding (23%). The highest WTP was observed for disease resistance. However, the subgroup of farmers practicing crossbreeding showed a tolerance to high susceptibility. A strong preference for the white colour was revealed. Although significant, the influence of sheep body size on decision-making showed a lesser importance, again with a distinct behaviour in the subgroup practicing crossbreeding. These results illustrate the need to take account of the diversity of goals and preferences among smallholder sheep keepers to gain their adhesion to a coordinated genetic improvement framework. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0049-4747 1573-7438 |
| Relation: | urn:issn:0049-4747; urn:issn:1573-7438; https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/217747; info:hdl:2268/217747; info:pmid:28589312 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11250-017-1315-7 |
| الاتاحة: | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/217747 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-017-1315-7 |
| Rights: | restricted access ; http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec ; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B2B520A7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 00494747 15737438 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11250-017-1315-7 |