A Latinoamerican experience in the conservation of zoogenetic resources and traditional management systems

Abstract

The Iberoamerican Network on the Conservation of Local Domestic Animal Biodiversity for the Sustainable Rural Development (Network XII-H) was constituted inside the CYTED in 1999, in order to coordinate international activities on research, development, innovation, formation and transference of technology related to the conservation of domestic zoogenetic resources and the traditional productive systems, taking into special account their social and ecological repercussions.Today this network has developed symposia, seminars, workshops, meetings, training courses, PhD formation, publications and many other activities in cooperation among 24 teams from 16 countries presently involved (around 300 researchers). The present paper describes our activities.