Networking and links

As an attempt to bring groups working with pastoralists closer together, we would like to share information, and provide a platform for others to do so. Please send information on conferences, workshops, publications to info@pastoralpeoples.org. If you have a website on a related topic, maybe we could exchange links too! For starters, here is a list of some organizations working on pastoralist-related issues.

Camélidés

http://camelides.cirad.fr

Informative site devoted to dromedaries and Bactrian camels. The site is in French, but a lot of the material is in English.

Endogenous Livestock Development email group

The ELDev discussion group enables members to exchange ideas and information on "endogenous livestock development". This is a people-centred approach that focuses on the development of livestock production, based on livestock keepers’ initiatives, their own worldview, values, knowledge, institutions, and locally available resources, as well as suitable outside resources.

The group started as a discussion group on ethnoveterinary medicine, but has recently expanded to cover broader aspects of people-centred livestock development. The group has over 200 members.

To join the ELDev group, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ELDev or send a blank email to ELDev-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Ethnovetweb

A website devoted to ethnoveterinary medicine (traditional animal health care). Lots of information and links to other sites, and mailing lists to subscribe to.
www.ethnovetweb.com 

IIED
International Institute of Environment and Development

IIED is a leading research institute that publishes Haramata, a bulletin of the drylands, as well as a series of issue papers, frequently relating to pastoralists.

IPRN
Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network

www.ser.org/iprn

Portal to resources on traditional ecological knowledge.

ITDG
Intermediate Technology Development Group

ITDG pioneered the "village animal health care project" approach with pastoralists and farmers in Kenya.

LIFE 
Local Livestock For Empowerment of Rural People

www.lifeinitiative.net

A movement supporting rural communities through the conservation and development of indigenous livestock breeds and species.

LPP Online

www.lpp.uk.com 

Website of the Livestock Production Programme sponsored by the British Department for International Development.

PACES
Pakistan Camel and Equine Society

Department of Livestock Management, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Tel. +92-41-9200161/3206, 632995, fax +92-41-9200764, www.uaf.edu.pk/AnimalHusb/Lm.html 

This society promotes research and collaboration, arranges courses and conferences, and generates and disseminates information on on camels, horses, donkeys and mules.

More information: Syed Hassan Raza, Secretary, uafhasan@fsd.comsats.net.pk

PENHA
Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa

PENHA provides expertise in regards to the pastoral peoples and development issues in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti).

Survival International

Survival International is an advocacy organization that has taken up the cause of the Himba and the Maasai.

VetAid

Vetaid is the British section of the Vétérinaires Sans Frontières network, a veterinary charity with branches in most European countries.

WAMIP

Ms Aghaghia Rahimzadeh, Secretariat,  The World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP), c/o CENESTA, 5 Lakpour Lane, Suite 24 , Langary Street, IR-16936 Tehran, Iran
Tel. +98 21 296-4114/15/16, fax +98 21 295-4217
Email aghaghia@cenesta.org, website www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/WAMIP/WAMIP.htm

The World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP) is a global alliance of nomadic peoples and communities. It aims to assist and empower people throughout the world to maintain their mobile lifestyles, pursue their livelihoods, maintain their cultural identity, sustainably manage their common property resources, and to have their rights fully respected.

World Herders Council

Hedy Bühlmann
World Herders Council, B.P. 2453, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland
Tel & fax: +41-41-310 35 00, email condial@bluewin.ch
www.condial.org