League for Pastoral Peoples
and endogenous livestock development
This website is dedicated to the pastoralists of the world and their itinerant spirit.
The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development is an advocacy and support group for pastoralists who depend on common property resources. We
work and conduct research with pastoral communities, primarily in India.
This website documents the challenges faced by pastoralists and facilitates networking among similar agencies.
League for Pastoral Peoples
Practical guidelines on Livestock Keepers' Rights
Livestock Keeper's Rights are three principles and five rights that ensure that livestock keepers can continue raising their animals. Supporting livelihoods and local livestock breeds: Guidelines for putting Livestock Keepers’ Rights into practice gives practical guidelines on how development professionals, private companies, researchers, governments and policymakers can turn the rights into practice. Download the guidelines.
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Sign the Declaration on Livestock Keepers’ Rights!
The Declaration on Livestock Keepers’ Rightslists three principles and five rights that make up Livestock Keepers' Rights, and provides the legal instruments underpinning these rights in international law. To sign, please contact: LPP's Evelyn Mathias, evelyn@mamud.com or Sabine Poth, sabine@pastoralpeoples.org. Please indicate whether you would like to sign as an organization, an individual, or both. The Declaration is open for signatures until the end of August 2010.
The Declaration will be distributed at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, from 18 to 29 October 2010. Download the Declaration
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Livestock Keepers' Rights online discussion
Livestock Keepers' Rights: An important concept for food security?
Online discussion on the FSN Forum and on the Community of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development, from 8 March 2010
Do we pursue global food security better by supporting smallholder farmers, agro-pastoralists and pastoralists or commercial producers?
How can we make sure Livestock Keepers rights become a general broadly accepted principle?
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition and the Community of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development invite interested parties to discuss these and other questions related to the future of Livestock keepers.
The topic is raised by Ilse Koehler Rollefson from the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development. Among the participants will be Antonio Rota from IFAD, Walter Mwasa from CARE International and livestock experts from FAO.
Results of the debate will help with advocacy work and in preparation for the Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 at Nagoya. The main outcomes of the discussion will also be presented at the InterAgency Donor Livestock Group (IADG) Annual Meeting which will be hosted by IFAD in May 2010.
To join the discussion please register on the FSN Forum (register online at: http://km.fao.org/fsn) or on the CoP-PPLD website (http://www.cop-ppld.net/).
Contributions can be made in English, French or Spanish.
For further information please contact: fsn-moderator@fao.org or secretariat@cop-ppld.net
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Leveraging the potential of livestock for dryland development
Leveraging the potential of livestock for dryland development:: Why a paradigm shift is needed was the title of a presentation by LPP's Ilse Köhler-Rollefson at an international conference on Nurturing Arid Zones for People and the Environment at the Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India, on 25 November 2009. Download presentation
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Raika publish details of their breeds and indigenous knowledge
This declaration by the Raika pastoralists of Rajasthan, India, details the livestock breeds they have developed, their traditional knowledge about their animals, and their lifestyle in relation to their environment.
A biocultural protocol is a new way for livestock keepers to assert their claim to the breeds they have developed, as well as to traditional rights and intellectual property associated with their animals.
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Biocultural community protocols on YouTube
Biocultural community protocols document livestock keepers' contribution to conserving the environment and their livestock breeds. Indian filmmaker Moving Images has made two videos on this new approach.
Video 1: Biocultural protocols and access and benefit sharing
Video 2: Developing biocultural protocols among the Raika (India) and Samburu (Kenya)
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Consultations on camels and biocultural protocols
LPP is co-organizing two meetings in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, on 24 and 25 February 2010 to discuss the future of livestock keepers.
National Consultation for Saving the Camel, 24 February
Organized by Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan and the Jaisalmer Camel Development Society. Government, private enterprise, NGOs, scientists, camel lovers and all who feel concerned are cordially invtied to discussions, brainstorming, camel competitions and camel product demonstrations. More details
Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers, 25 February
Biocultural protocols are a new method of documenting livestock keepers' contribution to maintaining breeds and conserving the environment. Organized by LIFE Network India, the Rain-fed Livestock Network, and Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, this meeting is an opportunity to share experiences with the development of biocultural protocols, identify the potential and pitfalls, and better understand their implications for local livestock keepers. More details
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