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Determination of non-market values to inform conservation strategies for the threatened Alistana–Sanabresa cattle breed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2014

D. Martin-Collado ,
C. Diaz ,
A. G. Drucker ,
M. J. Carabaño  and
K. K. Zander
D. Martin-Collado
Affiliation:
Departamento de Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Ctra. de La Coruña km. 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
C. Diaz*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Ctra. de La Coruña km. 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
A. G. Drucker
Affiliation:
Bioversity International, Via dei Tre Denari 472/a, 00149, Maccarese, Rome, Italy
M. J. Carabaño
Affiliation:
Departamento de Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Ctra. de La Coruña km. 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
K. K. Zander
Affiliation:
The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, NT 0909, Darwin, Australia Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, NT 0909, Darwin, Australia
*
†E-mail: cdiaz@inia.es
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Abstract

Livestock breed-related public good functions are often used to justify support for endangered breed conservation despite the fact that little is known about such non-market values. We show how stated preference techniques can be used to assess the non-market values that people place on livestock breeds. Through the application of a case study choice experiment survey in Zamora province, Spain, the total economic value (TEV) of the threatened Alistana–Sanabresa (AS) cattle breed was investigated. An analysis of the relative importance of the non-market components of its TEV and an assessment of the socio-economic variables that influence people’s valuation of such components is used to inform conservation strategy design. Overall, the findings reveal that the AS breed had significant non-market values associated with it and that the value that respondents placed on each specific public good function also varied significantly. Functions related with indirect use cultural and existence values were much more highly valued than landscape maintenance values. These high cultural and existence values (totalling over 80% of TEV) suggest that an AS in situ conservation strategy will be required to secure such values. As part of such a strategy, incentive mechanisms will be needed to permit farmers to capture some of these public good values and thus be able to afford to maintain breed population numbers at socially desirable levels. One such mechanism could be related to the development of breed-related agritourism initiatives, with a view to enhancing private good values and providing an important addition to continued direct support. Where linked with cultural dimensions, niche product market development, including through improving AS breed-related product quality and brand recognition may also have a role to play as part of such an overall conservation and use strategy. We conclude that livestock breed conservation strategies with the highest potential to maximise societal welfare would be those that secure the breed-related functions that people value most, with appropriate in situ conservation interventions and strategies being identified accordingly.

Keywords

Cattlebreedchoice modellingnon-market functionstotal economic value
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Research Article
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animal , Volume 8 , Special Issue 8: Agroecology: integrating animals in agroecosystems , August 2014 , pp. 1373 - 1381
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© The Animal Consortium 2014 

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