Organization of animal breeding in France and consequences for access to zootechnical data.

Summary
Depending on the species, animal breeding essentially takes two radically different forms of organization, involving a small number of private operators (poultry or aquaculture breeding) or a large number of cooperative or associative operators coordinated within a collective organization (equine and ruminant breeding), with swine breeding being in an intermediate situation between the two. Collective breeding is highly regulated on an international scale, and in France has historically been closely supervised by the State.

Animal selection involves the more or less rapid renewal of breeding generations, and can be likened to information engineering. This means that two entities are of strategic importance to operators: genetic resources (breeding stock and gametes) and the zootechnical information that characterizes them. Over the last decade, two "revolutions", one technical and the other social, have profoundly altered selection practices and organization, as well as the status of information: (i) the deployment of genomic selection from the late 2000s and (ii) the adoption in 2016 of a European zootechnical regulation (RZUE) applied in all EU member states since November 2018.

The presentation will show the factors behind the observed differences in organization and identify the consequences of the profound changes underway, particularly in terms of status and access to zootechnical data.

Monday, November 23 at 10 a.m.

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