Livestock approaches, policies & strategies

Multilaterals
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Cattle ranching and deforestation
• Contribution of livestock to poverty alleviation
• Livestock’s long shadow - environmental issues and options
• Livestock report 2006
• Livestock sector analysis and strategy development
• Managing the livestock revolution – policy and technology to address the negative impacts of a fast-growing sector
• Policies and strategies to address the vulnerability of pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Pollution from industrialized livestock production
• Pro-poor livestock policy initiative
• Responding to the “livestock revolution” – the case for livestock public policies
• Sector analysis and policy
• Sustainable grazing systems

FAO multi-institutional initiative
Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD), Virtual Research and Development Centre

• Community based drought management for the pastoral livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Investing in maintaining mobility in pastoral systems of the arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
• LEAD approach to addressing livestock's role in dryland management

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Thematic focus
• Livestock services and the poor: a global initiative

Joint FAO/IAEA division of nuclear techniques in food and agriculture International Atomic Energy Agency

• Guidelines and recommendations for improving artificial breeding of cattle and buffalo in Asia
• Guidelines and recommendations for improving artificial breeding of cattle in Africa

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Drylands Development Centre (DDC)
The global drylands imperative: pastoralism and mobility in the drylands

World Bank

• Agricultural Investment Sourcebook: Module 4 - Smallholder dairy production
• Agricultural Investment Sourcebook: Module 5.4 - Pastoralism on Arid and Semiarid Lands
• Agricultural Investment Sourcebook: Module 5.5 - Integrated Livestock-Wildlife Management
• Enhancing control of highly pathogenic Avian Influenza in developing countries through compensation: issues and good practice
• Livestock and poverty
• Livestock development: implications for rural poverty, the environment, and global food security
• Livestock-environment interactions
• Livestock marketing and processing
• Livestock production systems
• Livestock services

Bilaterals

EU-AgriNet
European livestock policy evaluation network: development of a livestock policy decision support system

Government of Orissa
Orissa State livestock sector policy

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Promoting pro-poor growth - agriculture

Tanzania Ministry of Livestock Development
Livestock Research Coordination, Training and Extension

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Work on livestock
• Agriculture strategy – Linking producers to markets (2004)

Research institutes

CIRAD - La recherche agronomique au service des pays du Sud
Programmes de recherche

• Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes
• Elevage des ruminants en régions chaudes
• Epidémiologie et écologie des maladies animales
• Gestion intégrée de la faune
• Pastoralisme
• Systèmes d’élevage et produits animaux

Institutional and Policy Support Team (IPST)
Livestock trade and marketing
Public-private delivery of primary animal health services
Conflict in cross-border pastoral ecosystems
Developmental relief in the livestock sub-sector
African Union/ interafrican bureau for animal resources policy briefing papers

International dairy federation
Priority areas

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Institute for Rural Development at the University of Goettingen
Property rights, risk & livestock development in Africa

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

• Property rights and the management of animal genetic resources
• Understanding the links between agriculture and health – livestock and health

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Mainstreaming conflict prevention in development co-operation: tip sheet on the links between pastoral livelihoods & conflict prevention

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

• ILRI's strategy to 2010
• Why livestock matter
• Livestock policy analysis
• Livestock policy documents

Livestock Production Programme (LPP Fund)

• Strategy
• Livestock in policy making

Natural Resources Institute (NRI), UK

• A comparative study of pastoralist parliamentary groups: case study on the pastoral affairs standing committee of Ethiopia
• Legislator and livestock: a comparative analysis of pastoralist parliamentary groups in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Partnerships and networks

Community-based Animal Health and Participatory Epidemiology Unit (CAPE), OAU
Primary animal health care in the 21st century: shaping the rules, policies and institutions

Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
IGAD's livestock policy initiative

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Will pastoral legislation disempower pastoralists in the Sahel?

League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP)
Sheep pastoralism in Rajasthan - still a viable option?

Livestock, environment and development initiative (LEAD)
Policy and institutional technologies

Partnership for Livestock Development, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Growth (ALIVE)

• Investing in maintaining mobility in pastoral systems of the arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
• Policy options paper: community-based drought management for pastoral livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

German NGO forum on environment and development
Livestock diversity: keepers' rights, shared benefits and pro-poor policies

Farm Africa
Pastoral development programmes and approaches
Policy and research

The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Karen commitment: pastoralist/indigenous livestock keepers’ rights

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Climate change and pastoralists: investing in people to respond to adversity

Oxfam

• Beyond the mainstream: education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys
• Learning to improve policy for pastoralists in Kenya

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