Does it help for work to discover the potential capabilities of native breeds and follow selection programs for their genetic traits effectively in facing the current challenges of climate change?
Dear Parisa Ziarati , I agree with you, but can products from native breeds meet the global demand, especially since native breeds produce less than improved ones?
Dear Dr Mohamed Elaref Minute (micro) change in climate has been occurring since long, and we notice it after a substantial gap of time when cumulative effects begin to visible everywhere. However, during this period our native animals (domesticates) also change in response to those minute changes of climate. Therefore, native breeds are highly acclimatized to native situations. To my opinion, native breeds need to be characterized for those "adaptive" traits which have imparted adaptive fitness to them. Yes, such traits of native breeds can be exploited to meet the challenges of climate change.
I salute you for this opinion. To achieve this, we must pay more attention to discovering the adaptive capabilities of these breeds to face the challenges of climate change, and thus native breeds will serve as food security for peoples.
The ancestral knowledge of indigenous women in the conservation of food is considered vital in the face of Climate Change and they request with continuity logic the creation of a fund that allows its preservation. It is one of the main requests defended by these indigenous people for years, because the potential capacities of these "native races" and in general all of them, effectively face the current challenges of Climate Change, but who really hears them?
The native Yanomami, Piaroa and other races in Venezuela have been fighting the destruction of the Amazon for decades. Climate change is crying out for THE WORD TO BE SPREAD TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, generally because they are more directly threatened by ecological catastrophe. This omission occurs despite clear evidence that indigenous and tribal peoples are the best conservationists and guardians of the natural environments they inhabit and preserve, passing the "witness" for centuries.
These "native races" should be listened to more, and less to the "energy policies" of the Industrialized Nations, that focus more on the destruction of natural environments such as the Amazon, despite the extraordinary efforts of the indigenous peoples of Venezuela, Brazil and other areas of South America to resist logging, mining and agro-livestock activities that continue to destroy vast tracts of its forest. There is still no decisive impulse to support them, but it is an undeniable fact that we must "write Laws" in favor of indigenous rights according to their Climate policies or Conservation of "their Nature".
Yes. They hold clues to their resilience and their ability to fight off climate change to some extent. It will also be useful to discover how severe can climate change can get to before the native plants and trees succumb to it and lose their resilience.