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Seminar “Towards Green and Equitable Livestock Development in India” on 13th April in Hyderabad

Together with WOTR and Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, LPP will be organising a one-day Seminar entitled “Towards Green and Equitable Livestock Development in India” on 13th April in Hyderabad. The main purpose of the seminar is to share the results of the “Ark-Project” and to provide an update on the participation of livestock keepers in the “Third Multistakeholder Platform towards sustainable livestock sector development“. The programme is available here.

Towards Green and Equitable Livestock Development in India

LIFE Network Seminar

13th April, 2013 in Hyderabad

Programme

9:00	Welcome and Opening of the Seminar	Dayalibai Raika, LPPS
9.15	Setting the Scene: Film “Friends of the Earth”	By Moving Images, LPP, LPPS
9.30	Benefits of Biodiversity Based Livestock Keeping: The results of the “Ark-Project”	Kamal Kishore
10.30	Coffee/ Tea break
11.00	The Dutch Experience with livestock production: Lessons learnt	Dr. Katrien van’t Hooft
11.30	Livestock keepers and the FAO’s Global Agenda of Action towards sustainable livestock sector development (GAA): An update	Dr. Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
12.00	Comments on GAA experience in Nairobi	Nilkanth Mamma, Kamal Kishore,Karthikeya Sivasenapathy
12.15	Questions and discussion	All
13:00	Lunch
14.30	Pigs – the Protein Pot of the Poor	Film by Dr. Balaram Sahu
14.45	Experiences with organic livestock production	Prof. Kandasamy
15.00	Introducing India’s National Action Plan on Animal genetic Resources	Dr. Sadana
15.30	Discussion	All
16.00	Tea Break
16.30	Summary and Comments	Dr. Rangnekar

Supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and Misereor

Pastoralist networks and support organisations publish policy brief at the launch of the SLA

The third multi-stakeholder platform for a sustainable livestock agenda (SLA) will meet in Nairobi from 22-24th January. Together with several other networks and organisations that support pastoralism and sustainable livestock development, including IIED, LIFE Network, WAMIP (World Association of Mobile Indigenous People), ELD, Rainfed Livestock Network and CELEP, LPP brought out a policy brief entitled “Capitalizing on pastoralism to feed people and achieve livestock sector sustainability”. It suggests supporting pastoralism (eco-extensification”) as an alternative model to the mainstream concept of “sustainable intensification” to improving livestock sector sustainability.

LPPS organises Experience-sharing Workshop about Biocultural Community Protocols

Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, LPP’s core partner in India, organised an experience sharing workshop for livestock keeping communities that have either already established a BCP or are in the process of doing so. The workshop was attended by representatives of five communities and brought out important insights. One of them is the need for raising much more awareness about this tool, not only among communities, but also among officials. The latter usually have never heard of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that forms the legal basis for BCPs.
Here is LPPS’ BCP_Experience Sharing WS Report and some comments and a link to photographs of the workshop can be found here.