Title:	Local cattle breeds in Europe
Authors:	Sipke Joost Hiemstra Yvett e de Haas Asko Mäki-Tanila Gustavo Gandini
Keywords:	Development of policies
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Wageningen Academic
Description:	Since the domestication process in the Neolithic Age, livestock has spread all over the world as a result of human migration or interchanges among neighbouring human populations. As they reached different places they slowly adapted to the specific environmental conditions of the area and to the ‘cultural’ preferences of their new herdsmen, giving rise to the livestock’s genetic diversity. In the old days, domestic animals were multifunctional; they were used for draught work, clothes, manure, fuel and food. It was not until 18th century in Europe when these differences between animals within the same species acquired a name, and were called ‘breeds’.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/48720
ISBN:	978-90-8686-697-7
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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