Case Studies
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 to Rajasthan, Gujarat and Odisha, 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 smallholder livestock rearing, and livelihoods supported by the commons.
[Scoping Study]
[Livestock Policy]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
Community-Based Insurance for Goats - Experiences and Learning from Ibtada, Alwar
This publication provides an analytical overview of the community insurance model being implemented by the Chetna Mahila Manch, with facilitative support from Ibtada (Alwar, Rajasthan)"
FAMACHA: An Eye-Colour Based Ready Reckoner for Assessing Worm-load in Small Ruminants
Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infections, or worms, are an important cause of low productivity in small ruminants. The usual practice of administering anthelmintics involves drenching of goat and sheep two to three times a year leading to development of anthelmintic resistant strains of parasites and thus limited effectiveness of worm control programmes. The presented study elaborates upon the FAMACHA system, an alternative way of managing nematode infections, which makes use of clinical anaemia as a determinant, with subsequent selection and de-worming of only those animals which seem unable to cope with the infection.
Collective Action to Reduce Goat Mortality - A Case Study of interventions supported by PRADAN in District Kandhamal, Odisha
This case study is the result of field visits undertaken by SA PPLPP in District Kandhamal, Odisha, where PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action) has supported goat based livelihood interventions in five of the fourteen gram panchayats of the Balliguda block.
[Small Ruminants]
[PRADAN]
[Odisha]
छोटे पशुओं के उपचार के लिए औषधीय पौधों द्वारा पशु चिकित्सा पद्धति को प्रोत्साहन - बायफ डेवलपमेंट रिसर्च फाउंडेशन द्वारा एक शोध अध्ययन
बायफ का उद्देशय है ग्रामीण परिवारों, विशेषकर वंचित और संसाधन गरीब परिवारों के लिये लाभकारी स्वरोज़गार के अवसरों का सृजन करना, तथा सुनिश्चित करना कि उनकी आजीविका मे स्थिरता हो और उनके जीवन की गुणवत्ता मे सुधार हो। इन उद्देश्यों को प्राप्त करने की दिशा मे बायफ ने सहभागी समुदाय से निरंन्तर बातचीत जारी रखी ताकि उनके द्वारा सामना की गई बाधाओं को पहचानने मे मदद कर सकें तथा सब मिल कर स्थानीय उपलब्ध संसाधनो के आधार पर संभव समाधान पर विचार कर सकें। कौशल मे बढ़ोतरी तथा प्रौद्योगिकी और ज्ञान संसाधन की पहुँच को सरल बनाना, अन्य प्रमुख कार्यान्वन रणनीतियाँ है।
[Karnataka]
[Small Ruminants]
[BAIF]
[Ethno-veterinary Practices]
छोटे पशुओं के उपचार के लिए औषधीय पौधों द्वारा पशु चिकित्सा पद्धति को प्रोत्साहन - सेवा तामिलनाडु द्वारा एक शोध अध्ययन।
सेवा (सस्टेनेबल एग्रीकल्चर एण्ड इन्वायरणमेन्टल वौलन्टरी एक्शन) एक गैर-सरकारी संस्था है जो स्थानीय ज्ञान व ज़मीनी स्तर पर हुई नई रचनाओं व प्रयोगों का दस्तावेजीकरण व प्रसार तथा स्थानीय पशुओं की नसलों का संरक्षण करने मे कार्यरत है। पिछले बीस वर्षों से सेवा औष्धीय पौधों पर आधारित पशु चिकित्सा पद्धति का पशुपालन के लिए दस्तावेजीकरण कर रही है और उन्होने 4,000 से अधिक किसानो को प्रशिक्षित कर दिया है जिनमे से कुछ तामिलनाडु के विभिन्न भागों मे पशुओं के रोगशमन करने वालों के रुप मे अभ्यास कर रहें है।
[Small Ruminants]
[SEVA]
[Ethno-veterinary Practices]
Livestock and Commons: Policy Perspectives for Rainfed Regions of India
The objective of this policy paper, developed by the Foundation for Ecological Security, is to present a narrative of the options available for common property resource management considering the diversity of socio-economic groups engaged in this production system in different ecological, institutional and political contexts.
[FES]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Common Property Institutions]
SMS for Good Shepherding – Providing Information When and Where it is needed
Anthra is a non-profit organization working primarily on issues of livestock development in the wider context of sustainable natural resource use. Its focus areas are livestock production and farming systems, crops and fodder varieties, livestock and plant genetic resources, medicinal plants and health care traditions, land and water use and the protection, documentation and sharing of indigenous knowledge. Anthra primarily works with small and marginal farmers – dalits, adivasis, pastoralists, and particularly with women from these marginalized communities.
[ANTHRA]
[Maharashtra]
[Small Ruminants]
[ICT4D]
Mini-Hatcheries: A viable technology to facilitate supply of Day Old Chicks for rural poultry rearing
This case study from Bangladesh details the setting up and management of two models of mini-hatcheries namely the rice-husk model and the sand-based box type model. These models were designed and established to facilitate smallholder poultry rearing to improve the livelihoods of moderate and ultra poor households.
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Mini-Hatcheries]
[Appropriate Technology]
Impact of watershed intervention in Dindorkheda village
Implementing natural resource conservation interventions using the watershed approach contributed directly to improving the water table and agriculture production.
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Dindorkheda]
[Rajasthan]
Collective Action to Reduce Land Degradation - a case study of Village Chitravas, Gogunda Tehsil, District Udaipur, Rajasthan
This case study documents the impact of collective action in a tribal village in Rajasthan, in regenerating and restoring community forests and reducing soil degradation.
[Rajasthan]
[Chitrawas]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
Assessment of Land Use & Land Cover Changes - Impact of Common Land Development
The study highlights quantitative changes, using satellite imagery following community protection and conservation of common lands.
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Rajasthan]
[FES]
[Madhya Pradesh]
Vegetation Analysis of Protected Common Lands
This study estimates the increase in biomass, availability of palatable fodder and vegetation composition, as also biodiversity, emerging over a period of time on community protected commons.
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Rajasthan]
[FES]
[Madhya Pradesh]
Protection and Regeneration of Common Pool Resources: Estimating the Economic Value
The study brings out important findings as well as insights on the benefits from Common Property
Land Resources (CPLRs) management in specific locations in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
[Economics]
[Madhya Pradesh]
[Rajasthan]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[FES]
Vertical Integration at Suguna Poultry Farms - A Critical look at Pro Poor Livelihood Issues
This study attempts to empirically analyze and document the concept of vertical integration with contract farming as practiced by Suguna Poultry Farms Ltd in Odisha. The case study details the terms of the contract and other features with a view to identifying practices that are unique and implemented by the company to promote poultry rearing among smallholder farmers.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Contract Farming]
[Odisha]
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