Browsing by Author "Centonze, Roberta"

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    Conference Paper
    Dialectical Institutions for Animal Genetic Resources Management
    (2004) Centonze, Roberta; Spadoni, Roberta
    "The paper discusses the role of local institutions in defining how animal genetic resources are governed at the village level emphasising the interaction between private and common property regimes in rural areas of Rajasthan, India. The legal pluralism approach has been applied and an institutional analysis has been carried out considering the rules in use at the local and global levels."
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    Working Paper
    Property Rights and the Management of Animal Genetic Resources
    (2006) Anderson, Simon; Centonze, Roberta
    Genetic erosion in animal genetic resources (AnGR) is of concern where livelihoods of the poor are affected and option values for society are being lost. The poor often live in marginal areas and their livestock maintain adaptive characteristics. However, processes leading to genetic erosion do not precipitate adaptation through natural selection. This paper explores how local property rights systems in poor communities for AnGR are organized. The dynamism and dialectical aspects of these systems are considered and the impact of their breakdown assessed in terms of AnGR diversity. The conservation of AnGR option values through livestock husbandry by the poor is a hitherto unrecognized and unrewarded service to society.