Biocultural community protocols put on record traditional knowledge and
the biodiversity that communities steward, in a process that the communities themselves drive. In developing a biocultural community protocol,
communities become informed about national and international laws that
protect their rights. This book provides an overview of the process as well
as its legal background and describes the first experiences with implementing this approach by livestock keepers in Asia and Africa.
This book will be useful for those involved in the management of biological
diversity in general and animal genetic resources in particular, including
communities, livestock keepers’ and breeders’ organizations, non-government organizations, scientists, lawyers, policy makers and governments.
Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers
BIOCULTURAL COMMUNITY PROTOCOLS are a new approach with
great potential for empowering pastoralists and other traditional livestockkeeping communities. They are both a process and a document in which
communities invoke their rights as guardians of biological diversity under
Article 8j of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Claiming
rights for in-situ conservation, they also help promote Livestock Keepers’
Rights to maintain their breeds and continue their traditional management
practices.
Biocultural Community
Protocols for Livestock
Keepers
ISBN 81-90164-1-3
League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP)
LIFE Network
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LIFE
Local Livestock for
Empowerment of
Rural People
Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan