An investment in our futureEvelyn 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 kb Download summary 19 kb

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 of the Parties (COP 10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, from 18 to 29 October 2010.Nearly 30 organizations and numerous individuals involved in livestock development have signed the Declaration.If you would like to sign, please contact: LPP's Ilse Koehler-Rollefson ilse.koehlerroll@googlemail.com or Sabine Poth, sabine@pastoralpeoples.org. Please indicate whether you would like to sign as an organization, an individual, or both. Download the Declaration 70 kb

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 India 12(1): 8-10 (Ilse Köhler-Rollefon and Karthikeya Sivasenapathy) Download Livestock Keepers Rights and Biocultural Protocols : Tools for Protecting Biodiversity and the Livelihoods of the Poor. LEISA India 12(1):35-36 (I. Köhler-Rollefson, P. Vivekanandan and HS Rathore) Download Visit LEISA India.