“It has been an amazing year for livestock keepers”, says LPP’s Ilse Koehler-Rollefson. “They have fought for their rights, all with the aim of bringing one big message across: our knowledge, our commitment, are important for rural livelihoods, for the … Continue reading →

Die Kuh ist kein Klima-Killer Wie die Agrarindustrie die Erde verwüstet und was wir dagegen tun können Anita Idel, 2010. Metropolis Verlag für Ökonomie, Marburg. In German. Cows belch methane – a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon … Continue reading →

LPP’s partner in India, Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, has launched the Camel Conservation and Livelihoods Project. This aims to show that the conservation of animal genentic resources can go hand-in-hand with rural income generation and create jobs not only for the … Continue reading →

Issue 2 of Common Voices, a magazine published by the Foundation for Ecological Security, focuses on pastoralism. It contains an article by LPP’s Ilse Koehler-Rollefson: “Biocultural Community Protocols: A Tool for Pastoralists to Secure Customary Rights to the Commons?”. Click … Continue reading →

A rights-based approach to invoking justice for pastoralists and biodiversity conserving livestock keepers Ilse Köhler-Rollefson and Evelyn Mathias Policy Matters 17, pp 113-115. 2010 Adapted livestock breeds enable their keepers to take advantage of common property resources. They are an … Continue reading →

Evelyn Mathias Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), 2010 “When it rains and drylands bloom, one realises the remarkable diversity of living organisms they harbour. Long overlooked, this diversity is crucial to the food security of a large share of … Continue reading →

An investment in our future Evelyn Mathias Presentation at the conference on “Ethnoveterinary medicine: Tradition, science, cultural richness”. Bologna, 29 October 2010. Società Italiana di Veterinaria e Zootecnia Tropicale per la cooperazione internazionale Veterinari Senza Frontiere Italia Download presentation 1413 … Continue reading →

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. The Declaration was distributed at the tenth meeting of the Conference … Continue reading →

The latest edition of LEISA India, a magazine focusing on low-external input agriculture in India, features local breeds of livestock. It includes two articles by LPP’s Ilse Köhler-Rollefson: Women Livestock Keepers of South India prefer local to global breeds. LEISA … Continue reading →

“The world’s 120 million pastoralists have much in common”, says LPP’s Evelyn Mathias. “They face common problems and should work together to solve them.” Evelyn gave a presentation at a symposium on the European Sheep Trek in Brussels on 14 … Continue reading →