Biocultural community protocols for livestock keepers
of animals. From the two other communities it is also known that women play a major
role in the management of livestock. Among the Raika, it is often the women who handle
the transactions with traders (because they understand money better), while among the
Lingayat that breed Bargur cattle both sexes are equally involved in decision-making
regarding the sale of animals.
Raika leader Dailibai Raika (left) and a representative of the Saami community at a UN
Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Montreal (photo by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson)
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