Survey on the roles of animal genetic resources in providing ecosystem services in grasslands

FAO SURVEYClick here to download the pdf survey form

We invite you to participate in a survey on the roles of animal genetic resources in the provision of ecosystem services in grassland ecosystems (please see the attached questionnaire). The results will be used to prepare a thematic study that will serve as an input in the preparation of The Second Report on the State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which is being prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at the request of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
 
The specific objective of the survey is to obtain information on the ecosystem services provided by specific populations of grazing livestock in specific grassland locations. To participate in the survey, you will therefore need first to choose an area of land (which for the purposes of the survey will be referred to as “the grazing area”) and a livestock population about which you are able to provide information.
 
The “grazing area” can be a single management unit (e.g. a nature reserve under unified management or an individual farm) or a geographical area (e.g. a mountain range) encompassing a number of management units (e.g. a number of farms or a communal grazing area used by a number of livestock keepers).
 
The livestock population should be a specific breed or group of breeds belonging to a single livestock species. It can either be a population that has historically been present in the grazing area or a population that has been introduced specifically for the purposes of managing the vegetation (or otherwise contributing to supporting, regulating or cultural ecosystem services). If you wish to provide information on more than one livestock population (e.g. more than one species), please complete a separate questionnaire for each. Likewise, if you would like to provide information on additional grazing areas, you will need to complete additional questionnaires.
 
Please support your answers by providing references (scientific publications, grey literature, official reports, etc.). Please insert the references in the relevant text boxes in the questionnaire (if possible, please include a web address for each). If the documents are not easily available (e.g. not available on the web), we would be grateful if you could send copies via email to the address below.
 
Once the relevant information has been assembled, the survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete. If you have any questions, please contact Tatiana From (Tatiana.From@fao.org), Animal Genetic Resources Branch, FAO.
 
Please kindly submit completed questionnaire forms by 20 November 2013.

When you have finished completing the questionnaire, click the “Submit by Email” button on the last page and send the completed questionnaire to Tatiana.From@fao.org. This should work automatically. If it does not, please attach the completed questionnaire manually to an e-mail and send it. Note that if you click the button without completing all the compulsory fields, you will see a warning message. Any required fields that you have not filled will be highlighted in yellow.
 
Thank you in advance for your participation in this survey!

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