Good Practice Notes / Briefs
Watershed Development and Livestock Rearing- Experiences and Learning from the Watershed Organisation Trust, Maharashtra, India
The study demonstrates how watershed development has immense scope to secure livestock-based livelihoods and, at the same time, build the natural resource base.
[Watershed Organisation Trust(WOTR)]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)]
[Maharashtra]
Common Land and Poor Livestock Keepers - Experiences from Common Land Development in the States of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in India
The study provides data to help evaluate the dependence of livestock keepers on the commons for feed and fodder and estimates the monetary value of this dependence. It also provides relevant data regarding the qualitative and quantitative growth of foliage on the commons and its potential in different agro ecological regions.
[Madhya Pradesh]
[Rajasthan]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
The Satpuda - Replicas of Native Chicken in Rural Poultry Production
This initiative has benefitted over 40,000 rural households in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and has provided a means of complementary livelihood to marginal farmers, and in particular women farmers.
[Maharashtra]
[Satpuda Desi]
[Small Holder Poultry]
Making Modern Poultry Markets Work for the Poor - An example of Cooperative Development from Madhya Pradesh, India
This note documents the processes adopted by the women poultry rearers to break market entry barriers and become a viable and sustainable enterprise.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[PRADAN]
[Madhya Pradesh]
[Poultry Producers' Cooperative]
Combating Bird Flu through Bio-security Measures at Farm and Community Levels – Evidence from Bangladesh
This Potential Good Practice Note highlights the measures jointly initiated by government and non-government organizations to address the problem. Bio-security measures (BSM), tailored to various categories of fe/male poultry farmers were put in place to help prevent and control future outbreaks of avian influenza as well as other poultry diseases.
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[BRAC]
[Bio-security]
Government-Led Integrated Approach for Delivery of Services to Smallholder Poultry Farmers
This Good Practice note documents the work of the Bastar Integrated Livestock Development Programme (BILDP), and demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India.
[BILDP]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[BASTAR]
Building Consensus and Joint Strategies for Fodder Development and Resource Management – Rapid Appraisal of Agriculture Knowledge Systems, a Multi Stakeholder Process
This Good Practice note highlights the need for greater interaction and collaboration between different stake-holders dependent on the same natural resource base and responsible for its development and management.
[Centre for peoples forestry(CPF)]
[WOTR]
[Andhra Pradesh]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Intercooperation]
[CALPI]
Mitigating Diseases and Saving Valuable Assets - Poultry Vaccinators Delivering Services to the Doorstep of the Poorest in Bangladesh
This Good Practice note highlights how an innovative government – civil society collaborative initiative succeeded in developing a sustainable livestock health delivery system in each district of Bangladesh.
[Bangladesh]
[Women]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Poultry Vaccinators]
Sustainable Livelihoods for the Rural Poor through Small Scale Poultry Rearing
This Good Practice note reviews the BRAC-DLS Poultry Model and illustrates how smallholder poultry production can help in income generation and empowerment of women while mitigating malnutrition, unemployment and poverty.
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Livelihoods]
[Women]
Lighting up Lives - Biogas from Poultry Litter as a Sustainable Energy Resource
This Potential Good Practice showcases the joint effort of communities, NGOs and government agencies to set up and run eco-friendly biogas plants that, by making use of available poultry litter, provide a low-cost source of energy to rural households with positive economic, environmental and health returns.
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Biogas]
[Poultry Litter]
Promoting a Productive and Sustainable Fodder Programme: Oats as a Potential High Altitude Winter Fodder Crop
The note documents how this fodder promotion program benefited alpine communities and the support provided by way of leasing land and assistance for fencing material. These initiatives contributed positively to sustaining yak herds in the alpine regions.
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Oats]
[Bhutan]
[Winter Fodder]
Enriching community pastures - Villagers of Gudha Gokulpura in Bundi, Rajasthan take the lead
The note shows how community protection and management of the commons has led both to increasing the output of grasses and thereby promoting livestock development, and has also contributed to improving the water table with a resultant increase in the area under cultivation and improved crop productivity.
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[BAIF]
[BUNDI]
Development of Village Institutions for Equitable & Sustainable Access to Natural Resources
The document highlights the need to ensure and enable community participation in interventions related to the management and governance of natural resources especially forests and open pasture lands.
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Udaipur]
[Rajasthan]
Management of Rangelands Through Controlled Shrub Burning
This potential Good Practice Note details the results of a study undertaken by the Department of Livestock in Paro Dzongkhag (district), Bhutan, wherein trials were conducted of controlled burning of shrubs in the alpine areas of Soe Yaksa, to assess the effect on regeneration of grasses, forbs, broadleaf and edible shrub species.
[Rangelands]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Bhutan]
[Feed and Fodder]
Building Fodder Security in Rural Areas: Validation of Traditional Knowledge on Fodder and its Reintegration into Livelihoods
This note highlights the importance of engaging members of the community in documenting the wealth of traditional knowledge regarding feed and fodder systems across different agro-ecological regions.
[Traditional Knowledge]
[Livelihoods]
[Andhra Pradesh]
[Common Property Resources – Smallholder Livestock Rearing]
[Maharashtra]
[Feed and Fodder]
[ANTHRA]
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