In a short film, Ilse Köhler-Rollefson introduces the work and rationale of LPP and how it tries to link the situation of local livestock keepers with the global livestock policy scenario. Watch the film here.

This new flyer summarizes some of LPP’s approaches to securing the resources and assets of small-scale livestock keepers: Biocultural Protocols, Livestock Keepers’ Rights and new approaches to marketing products from local livestock breeds. LPP flyer – Investing in Livestock Futures.

The Global Agenda of Action for a Sustainable Livestock Sector will hold its first focus area workshop at FAO in Rome from 2-4 April, 2012. The theme is “Closing the efficiency gap”. How will  “efficiency” be defined and which factors will be taken into account? A major focus will be on green house gas emissions per unit of livestock product, but will externalities also be figured in, such as biodiversity, disease outbreaks, soil fertility, etc? This will be an interesting process to observe – and influence! The tentative agenda of the workshop is here.