Books/brochures

Adding value to livestock diversity: Marketing to promote local breeds and improve livelihoods

Part 1: Wool and cashmerePart 2: Meat and hidesPart 3: MilkPart 4: AnalysisMany local livestock breeds and minor species are in decline and may be lost because they cannot compete with high-yielding exotic breeds. Conserving these breeds is important: many have unique traits, such as hardiness and disease resistance, that are vital for future livestock production. One way to help ensure their survival may be to sell products from these breeds to high-value, specialist markets.The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources acknowledges the importance of market access to the sustainable use of livestock diversity and calls for development of markets for products derived from local species and breeds, and for strengthening processes that add value to their products.This publication describes eight examples of marketing of livestock products (wool, cashmere, milk, meat and hides) from local breeds of Bactrian camels, dromedaries, goats and sheep in seven countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It shows how they have kept local breeds in use, while enabling the small-scale livestock keepers and pastoralists who raise them to improve their livelihoods.http://www.fao.org/3/i1283e/i1283e00.htm

Amagara geitu gemerezeibweho ente z’enyankore kandi nizo zitutungire tushemereire kwirinda kureeba ngu tizachwekyerera: Okuhandiika aha nte z’enzaarwa nitukoozesa ebiteekateeko by’abariisa kandi bakama baazo (LIFE approach)

Description in Nkore language of Ankole cattle, compiled by herders in Nyabushozi, Kiruhura District, South Western Uganda. Contents:1. Description of Ankole cattle and breeding area2. Social and cultural context3. Livelihood significance4. Management and breeding5. Population trends

Raika bio-cultural protocol

Sets out the biocultural values and explains how the Raika community of Rajasthan have developed and preserved unique breeds of livestock and traditional knowledge associated with them, and how their pastoral lifestyle has developed the co-evolved ecosystem of Rajasthan’s forests which they have traditionally conserved and sustainably used. It details their customary decision making process involved in providing free prior informed consent to any actions that relate to our grazing rights, animal genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. It illustrates the disastrous impacts that the exclusion of the Raika from previously communal grazing areas and forests is having on their lives, livestock, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the forest ecosystem itself. It articulates their forest access rights and rights over their genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge under Indian law. It calls upon the National Biodiversity Authority to recognize and support the Raika's efforts to conserve their livestock breeds, environment and lifestyle.