League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

This website is dedicated to the pastoralists of the world and their itinerant spirit.

The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development is an advocacy and support group for pastoralists who depend on common property resources. We work and conduct research with pastoral communities, primarily in India. This website documents the challenges faced by pastoralists and facilitates networking among similar agencies.

Papers on livestock keepers' rights in Spanish

The following papers on livestock keepers' rights were presented by Ellen Geerlings at the "VI Simposio Iberoamericano sobre la Conservación y Utilización de Recursos Zoogenéticos", Chiapas, México, 7-10 Nov 2005.

Köhler-Rollefson, Ilse, Constance McCorkle, Jacob Wanyama and Evelyn Mathias. 2005. "Investigación en biotecnología animal y derechos de los criadores de ganado" (Animal biotechnology research and livestock-keepers' rights). 64 kb

Mathias, Evelyn, Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, and Jacob Wanyama. 2005. Razas locales y derechos de los criadores de animales 165 kb.

English version, "Pastoralists, local breeds and the fight for Livestock Keepers’ Rights" presented at the PENHA 15th Anniversary Conference "Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: Surviving against all odds", 29 Sep 2005. 77 kb

Item posted by Paul Mundy on Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Call to join the movement for Livestock Keepers' Rights

The League for Pastoral Peoples is helping livestock keepers and their organizations prepare for FAO's First International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources, which will be held in Interlaken (Switzerland) in September 2007.

As part of these preparations, LPP organized a workshop in Bonn, Germany, on 16 October 2006, and will organize further workshops in Asia and Africa during 2007.

LPP invites all interested individuals and organizations to join in the movement to support the rights of livestock keepers in the run-up to the Interlaken conference.

More information:

English 64 kb, 40 kb
Français 58 kb, 43 kb
Español 64 kb, 40 kb

Item posted by Paul Mundy on Monday, October 23, 2006

World Food Day: Livestock keepers warn about patents on animal genes

Diversity in our livestock is essential to confront future threats to food supplies, but livestock breeds are becoming extinct at the rate of 5% per year.

Local livestock keepers and pastoralists hold the key to keeping this diversity alive - but only if their rights are recognized.

On World Food Day, 16 October 2006, the League for Pastoral Peoples organized a workshop where small-scale livestock keepers and pastoralists from Africa, Asia and Latin America demanded the safeguarding of Livestock Keepers’ Rights to the genes of their breeds.

Timetable and presentations