Publications

Livestock farming with nature: Abstract

Outlines the LIFE approach to documenting indigenous breeds, lobbying and advocacy for Livestock Keepers’ Rights, and exploring value addition and marketing for livestock products.
In: Mainstreaming biodiversity issues into forestry and agriculture: Abstracts of poster presentations at the 13th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 18-22 Feb 2008, Rome.

  • Title: Livestock farming with nature: Abstract
  • Author: Ilse Koehler-Rollefson, Evelyn Mathias, Hanwant Singh Rathore, P. Vivekanandan and Jacob Wanyama / Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity / 2008
  • Description: Outlines the LIFE approach to documenting indigenous breeds, lobbying and advocacy for Livestock Keepers' Rights, and exploring value addition and marketing for livestock products.
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  • Pages: 3

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    Livestock genetics companies: Concentration and proprietary strategies of an emerging power in the global food economy

    Study of the concentration of control over genetic resources in the hands of a few large companies.

  • Title: Livestock genetics companies: Concentration and proprietary strategies of an emerging power in the global food economy
  • Author: Susanne Gura / League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development and Local Livestock for Empowerment (LIFE) Network / 2007
  • Description: Study of the concentration of control over genetic resources in the hands of a few large companies.
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  • Pages: 30

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    Keepers of genes: The interdependence between pastoralists breeds access to the commons and livelihoods

    The role that traditional livestock keepers play in maintaining genetic diversity. Focuses on a key threat to the survival of pastoralists and their livestock breeds: the loss of access to grazing and water.

  • Title: Keepers of genes: The interdependence between pastoralists breeds access to the commons and livelihoods
  • Author: Ilse Köhler-Rollefson and the LIFE Network / LIFE Network / 2007
  • Description: The role that traditional livestock keepers play in maintaining genetic diversity
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  • Pages: 80

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