Community protocols: Tools for awareness raising and conservation
Description of community protocols and the reasons for producing them

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Description of community protocols and the reasons for producing them
Recommendations on biocultural protocols and access and benefit sharing. From a conference on Livestock Futures organised by LPP in Bonn on 6-7th September 2012.
The United Nations continues to see pastoralism as a main reason for desertification, says Drynet, a global initiative on drylands. But a large number of scientific studies contradict this, and instead show the positive effects of pastoralism as a land-use strategy. LPP’s Ilse Koehler-Rollefson and Silke Brehm have collated some of the bright aspects of pastoralism.