Document Actions
News
Up one levelSite News
Shamlat Abhiyan – Campaign for the Commons in Rajasthan
Rajasthan, India, April 2012 - Common pool resources or Commons play a critical role in maintaining the ecological balance, providing essential resources to sustain life and livelihoods, particularly of the poor, ensuring food security and meeting rural energy and fodder requirements. Over the years, there has been a steady decline both in the extent and in the quality of common lands, largely on account of changes in land use, a collapse of governance mechanisms, an absence of clear tenure and the allocation of these lands for other purposes.
Door step delivery of livestock health care services - the eVet project of the Madhya Pradesh Animal Husbandry Department
Madhya Pradesh, India, April 2012 - The Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Madhya Pradesh, recently launched an eVet project, initially focused in selected villages in 15 blocks in the districts of Sehore and Betul. Approved by the agriculture cabinet, the initial pilot in the two selected districts is jointly funded by the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), a central government scheme to increase investment in agriculture, and the state plan budget.
Small Ruminant Rearing – Product Markets, Opportunities and Constraints
This report aims to place the economic context of small ruminant rearing within broader policy and institutional frameworks, and studies the value chains of goat and sheep meat, goat and sheep skin, and sheep wool. The study also documents some of the approaches and practices on small ruminant rearing submitted in response to SAPPLPP’s call for the same.
Mini-Hatcheries: A viable technology to facilitate supply of Day Old Chicks for rural poultry rearing
Mini-hatcheries have been successfully established in Bangladesh and have emerged as a viable income earning opportunity for rural women. Mini-hatcheries provide a critical link between parent breeder farms and poultry rearers and enable the supply of Day Old Chicks under a decentralized institutional model. Two models of mini-hatcheries have been promoted – a rice husk based model and a sand-based box type model.
Small Ruminant Rearing – Product Markets, Opportunities and Constraints
This report aims to place the economic context of small ruminant rearing within broader policy and institutional frameworks, and studies the value chains of goat and sheep meat, goat and sheep skin, and sheep wool. The study also documents some of the approaches and practices on small ruminant rearing submitted in response to SAPPLPP’s call for the same.
राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण रोजगार गारण्टी योजना अंन्तर्गत सामूहिक भूमि मे समेकित चारा उत्पादन हेतु मार्गदर्शिका
हिमोत्थान सोसायटी’ देहरादून द्वारा वर्ष 2007-08 से “सामूहिक भूमि में चारा संसाधनों का विकास” नाम से एक पहल की शुरुआत की गई जिसका क्रियान्वयन उत्तराखण्ड के चमोली ज़िले में महात्मा गांधी राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण रोजगार गारण्टी योजना (म-नरेगा) एवं सर रतन टाटा ट्रस्ट, मुम्बई के वित्तीय सहयोग से किया गया।
Poultry sector country review – Bangladesh and India
These reviews are a part of a series of Country Reviews that were commissioned by the Animal Production Service (AGAP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the Socio-Economics, Production & Biodiversity Unit of the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease of FAO (ECTAD).
Light Assessment of Livestock Policy Formulation and its Implementation in Orissa (Doc020)
In Orissa assembly approval was accorded to the Livestock Policy in Oct. 2002 and implementation started from 2003‐2004. The Management Board of SA PPLPP felt that understanding the situation in Orissa regarding implementation of Livestock Policy and the views and experiences of the staff of related departments and organizations in this regard would be useful. A light assessment was proposed addressing issues such as: ‐ to what extent has it been implemented, ‐ what are the key strengths, ‐what are the problems that are being faced in implementation.
Dead birds or shattered hopes - A study of the impact of Bird Flu on poor people's poultry related livelihoods in West Bengal (Doc019)
In 2008, SA PPLPP presented Study report on- Poultry based livelihoods of rural poor: Case of Kuroiler in West Bengal - a state in India. Within three months of completion of survey in October 2007, Bird flu broke out in January 2008. SA PPLPP looked upon it as an opportunity to study the Impact of Bird Flu on Poor People’s Poultry related Livelihoods. The presented study is unique as it tracks a sub-set of the households included in 2007 study and examines the impact of the bird flu outbreak and associated control measures on income and nutritional aspects of households involved in the entire chain of Kuroiler distribution and production.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Conservation of Indigenous Poultry Breeds of Bhutan
The Department of Livestock Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan, in collaboration with the National Bio-diversity Centre and the South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme (SA PPLPP), convened a workshop on the conservation of indigenous poultry breeds of Bhutan on 10th August 2011 at Thimphu, Bhutan. The workshop assumes significance in light of recent interventions to increase poultry productivity in the country through the introduction of exotic and cross-bred chickens, and support for commercial poultry rearing.
Dependence of Livestock Rearers on Common Lands: A Scoping Study
This study is a review of the Good Practice documentation by SA PPLPP, supplemented with desk research on emerging issues and macro perspectives, field visits in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Orissa, and meetings with experts and practitioners working on issues related to community management of common lands. The study, in particular, focuses on the linkages between common lands and livestock rearing, and livelihoods supported by the commons.
Concept note on the Workshop on Small-Holder Poultry Rearing: A Sustainable Livelihood Opportunity for the Rural Poor
This concept note provides background information about Small-holder Poultry rearing. It forms basis of the Workshop on Small-holder Poultry rearing: A sustainable Livelihood Opportunity for the Rural Poor, which was organized by South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme (SA PPLPP), National Resource Centre for Rural Livelihoods (NRCRL) and The National Small-holder Poultry Development Trust (NSPDT), on December 28, 2010.
Common Land and Poor Livestock Keepers - Experiences from Common Land Development in the States of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in India (Doc21)
The study Common Land and Poor Livestock-keepers: Experiences from Common Land Development in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh has emerged from the need to evaluate the role of the Commons in rural livelihoods and their diverse environmental functions; and more specifically, to understand the benefits of Common land development to poor livestock-keepers.
Proceedings of the Workshop in Bangladesh on ‘Implementation of the National Livestock Development Policy (2007) and National Poultry Development Policy (2008) – Impact on Small-holder Livestock Rearers’
The South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme (SA PPLPP) and BRAC, Bangladesh, jointly convened a workshop on ‘Implementation of the National Livestock Development Policy (2007) and National Poultry Development Policy (2008) – Impact on Small-holder Livestock Rearers’, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 5th April 2011.
Smallholder Producers Under Vertical Integration in Andhra Pradesh
Poultry is one of the fastest growing segments within the agricultural sector in India today. One of the factors behind this phenomenal growth is contract farming under vertical integration. In principle, contract farming could be an institutional arrangement that enables farmers’ access to markets and supply of inputs and is a model practiced by private corporations to monetize the technological advances through decentralized production and market driven process.
Impact of watershed intervention in Dindorkheda village
Context: Tribal communities in many parts of Pratapgarh, (Rajasthan, India) have for a long time been living off forest resources, existing farmlands, and thereby meeting their subsistence requirements. However, of late, with external influence and access to market economy, there has been a shift in the interest of the communities towards preserving their natural resources. The recent trends in migration to distant areas in search of wage opportunities and somewhat assured regularity in income sources (from wages) are further weakening the traditional values of conserving the natural forest reserves. Village Dindorkheda is an excellent example of efforts made towards conservation of their resources and revival of rural livelihoods.
Collective action to combat Land Degradation - a case from Chitravas
Across India and also globally, tribals have always lived close to the nature. This not only reflects in their culture but also in the way they meet their requirements and carry out the livelihoods. Carrying out subsistence agriculture, they have over the years relied on the natural capacities of the earth to provide them with the good harvest. Understanding the nature as a whole, they have protected the forests and preserved the natural surrounding, treading a fine balance between use and conservation. However, with a set of mis-constructed policies and myths the relation of tribals with - nature has severely deteriorated.
Reforms in livestock service delivery systems
The below presented documents reflect the experiences from an initiative on 'Reforms in Livestock Service Delivery Systems - Experiences from a participatory process in Andhra Pradesh' designed and implemented jointly by CALPI (Capitalisation of Livestock Programme Experiences India), a programme of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Intercooperation, the South Asia Hub of the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) of the FAO and the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Learning AgriCultures - Insights from sustainable small-scale farming
Module 4 Livestock Systems - The Learning AgriCultures Series is published by ILEIA - the Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture, in response to requests from its network of partners for resource material explaining the principles behind sustainable small-scale farming.
