ABSTRACT
Agricultural biodiversity refers to all diversity within and among species found in domesticated crop, tree, aquatic, and livestock systems. Livestock biological diversity encompasses both phenotypic as well as genotypic variation (Smale and Drucker 2007). The term animal genetic resources (AnGR) is used to include all animal species, breeds and strains (and their wild relatives) that are of economic, scientific and cultural interest to humankind in terms of food and agricultural production for the present or in the future (Rege and Gibson 2003).
