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of new continents carried the goat to further lands. Today,
1,153 breeds of goats exist, but this wealth of diversity is
exposed to erosion due to intensifi cation of the production
system and excessive dependence on a few high-input/
high-output breeds. Diversity needs to be maintained to
develop breeds with potential merit for current use and for
future unknown situations. To sustain the diversity among
goat breeds, we must characterize the breeds, enumerate
their populations, conserve populations at risk of extinc-
tion, especially those breeds that possess unique character-
istics. It has been long said that “the goat is the poor man's
cow.” In more current terminology, the goat has been
recognized as an important tool for poverty alleviation
particularly among the rural poor and the landless.
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