Dr. Ken Laughlin, Aviagen, EFFAB Steering Committee at Interlaken Conference 3 September 2007

There is a need for action plans to ensure the retention of biodiversity and not just to conserve the status quo for another day. Furthermore, there is a need for market driven incentives as part of the process for using and developing traditional breeds at local, national and international levels where this might be possible.

It is a good suggestion (as indicated in the paper "Dynamics of livestock production systems, drivers of change and prospects for animal genetic resources" presented at the Scientific Forum on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at 3 September 2007 in Interlaken) to have public policies that support the conservation of traditional breeds and it may also be valuable to have discussion on the perceived positive and negative opportunities of some system of “animal breeder’s rights” in this regard.

- Proceeding biodiversity workshop Utrecht 1999
- Erratum