Poster on Livestock in Watershed...

Purpose of any developmental initiative is providing livelihood options to people either directly or indirectly. In that context, uncovered aspects are to be brought into fore so as to give a holistic approach to the programme. An attempt is made to put this into practice through a theme poster on Livestock in Watershed programme. Encompasses the critical issues and key aspects to focus on Livestock in Watershed activities. Intended objective is to inform and enable the stakeholders to speak on these relevant issues and make them part of the main process.

Developed and published with support from CWS and AEI, Luxembourg.

Capitalisation of Livestock Programme Experiences India (CALPI)

Summary: The paper focuses on critical issues and approaches related to small ruminants. Some of the critical issues highlighted are poor awareness regarding the importance of small ruminants in livestock system, absence or weak rearers associations and ignorance of small ruminant rearers in social organization. Various approaches to these issues have been addressed in this paper. Another critical issue emphasised is pressure on fodder resource base, wherein declining area of CPRs, low priority to common land development are discussed. Other concerns discussed in the paper are inadequate veterinary health, inadequate focus on genetic improvement, reduced access to credit and insurance, inefficient marketing mechanisms and poor inter-departmental coordination. Some interesting case studies concerning silvo-pasture intervention and Joint Forest Management in villages of Rajasthan, Ram lambs rearing and Malabari Goat Breed Improvement Programme (MGBIP) are discussed.
 

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Livestock - Environment Interactions in Watersheds - Policy Issues - Maharashtra...

This document is a report on a Round Table policy dialogue aimed to address the policy and institutional issues related to livestock-livelihoods-environment-watersheds interactions in semi-arid areas of Maharashtra. This workshop was aimed at presenting the conclusions of the LEAD study, review of the current livestock and watershed policies of Maharashtra, and to initiate a policy dialogue with stakeholders for actionable policy interventions. The report provides a summary of the workshop presentations. This includes a paper on the ‘Livestock Production Systems in Marginal Areas’ by Ranjitha Puskur from IWMI emphasising on the inter-linkages between livestock production, resource endowment and market conditions in watersheds and the management of resources and the policy environment. Other papers such as ‘Groundwater Policies and Situation in the State of Maharashtra’ by S. P. Bagade Additional Director, GSDA and a paper on ‘Livestock - Environment interactions in watershed: Sustainability issues- some inputs from forestry sector’ by Dr. A. K. Jha, the Joint Director, Social Forestry are included.
 

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Preliminary desk study on Livestock-Environment interactions in watersheds in India...

The report gives an overview of the documented knowledge concerning Livestock-Environment Interaction (LEI) at the watershed level in India and proposes an approach for improving strategic and programmatic efficiency focusing the situation of resource poor segments of the population. The report also has a set of hypotheses, which help to establish a baseline of existing literature and documentation of Livestock Environment Interactions on watershed level in India. The results are grouped in 16 major findings in the form of a contextual description and conclusions. The report proposes the areas of Analysis of the changes of dynamics and distribution of household income and indirect benefits from livestock in Watershed Development Programmes and the incidence on environment, Analysis of the dynamics of Common Property Resource utilization (importance in livelihood, carrying capacity, access and availability) etc.
 

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Welcome to the LEAD DIGITAL LIBRARY...

A multilingual reference point for information on Livestock, Environment and Development Interactions. Currently you can search for documents in English, French, Spanish and Russian using an English interface. This site contains over 304 publications (174 in English; 105 in Spanish; 50 in French; 1 in Russian) indexed around six key areas or hotspots which have been identified by LEAD.

For more information or to send your publications, contact us by email at: lead@fao.org

 

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