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 →

A group of non-government organizations has called on governments and international organizations to support the conservation of livestock breeds in their original habitats – and by the livestock-keeping groups that developed them. Members of the LIFE Network, a grouping of … Continue reading →

Ellen Geerlings People-centred livestock development builds on livestock keepers’ own initiatives and efforts, while helping them to use the best of both local and outside knowledge and resources. This literature review summarizes and analyses the experiences of 16 projects and … Continue reading →

The floods in Pakistan have decimated stocks of animals, says Abdul Raziq Kakar, president of the Pakistani NGO SAVES. It is vital for people’s livelihoods to save as many animals as possible, and to help farmers and livestock keepers restock … Continue reading →