Creating artificial insemination centres

Assisting with artificial insemination

Description

Creating artificial insemination centres involves establishing specialized facilities equipped to collect, process, and distribute high-quality genetic material for breeding livestock. This strategy aims to improve animal productivity, genetic diversity, and disease resistance, while reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections. By providing controlled breeding services and technical support, these centres address challenges of low fertility rates, limited access to superior genetics, and inefficiencies in traditional breeding methods, thereby enhancing food security and rural livelihoods.

Context

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends establishing in-country facilities for artificial insemination centres and in situ breeding farms.

Implementation

In Belgium, the pregnancy rate of inter-uterine insemination in humans is around 30 percent after six tries, similar to that of an average, fertile couple conceiving naturally. The cost is around US$200 an attempt.