The Foundation House of Farmers Schwaebisch Hall is organizing an international congress on the issue of “peasants’ rights” from 7-10 March 2017. The planned congress will bring activists from around the world together for three days to exchange the concerns, make the wider public aware of the issue and get organized for effective steps to advocate for real peasants´ rights. More than 100 peasant leaders are expected to come to the small town Schwaebisch Hall to make a real impact in safeguarding their peoples rights amidst the mounting pressure put on their resources and lifestyles by globalization forces, modernization efforts and reckless agribusiness.

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Ilse Köhler-Rollefson:

“Access and Benefit-Sharing of Animal Genetic Resources: About the need to think out of the box“

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Toby Hodgkin, Stanley Zira, Taghi Farvar, Ghanimat Azhdari, Maede Salimi, Dunja Mijatovic

“Landscapes for agrobiodiversity: Documenting the livestock perspective“

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Hartmut Meyer

“The Nagoya Protocol and national ABS frameworks – Implications for animal genetic resources“

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Elizabeth Katushabe works for Natural Livestock Farming (Uganda) and is an Ankole Longhorn cattle keeper herself. She belongs to the Bahima tribe in South Western Uganda used to move with their Ankole cattle. Not from last two decades Uganda government made them to settle which led to cropping of many issues from socio-economic to cultural crises to ecology threat. The community who doesn’t know farming has been facing existential crises. The long horn cattle Ankole are also facing threat. Elizabeth converses with Down To Earth on all these issues.l these issues.