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Item posted by Paul Mundy on Saturday, May 01, 2010
 | 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.
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Item posted by Paul Mundy on Sunday, March 07, 2010
| The Declaration on Livestock Keepers’ Rights lists 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 |
Item posted by Paul Mundy on Sunday, March 07, 2010
| 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 |
Item posted by Paul Mundy on Monday, March 01, 2010
 | 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.
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Item posted by Paul Mundy on Sunday, February 28, 2010
 | Raika Samaj Panchayat. 2009. Raika biocultural protocol. Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan, Sadri, Rajasthan, India.
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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Item posted by Paul Mundy on Thursday, February 25, 2010
 | 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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Item posted by Paul Mundy on Friday, February 19, 2010
