Abbreviations and glossary
FAO
LIFE
LPP
NGO
UN
UNEP
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Local Livestock for Empowerment of Rural People
League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development
Non-governmental organization
United Nations
United Nations Environment Programme
Biocultural community protocol
A biocultural community protocol is a document that is developed after a community undertakes a consultative process to outline their core cultural and spiritual values and customary
laws relating to their traditional knowledge and resources. In this they provide clear terms
and conditions regulating access to their knowledge and resources (Natural Justice, 2009).
Livestock keepers
The term livestock keepers here encompasses both indigenous livestock keepers and ecological livestock keepers. Indigenous livestock keepers represent those communities who
have a long-standing cultural association with their livestock and have developed their
breeds in interaction with a specific territory or landscape. Ecological livestock keepers
are those that sustain their animals and the environments where these animals live; relying largely on natural vegetation or home-grown fodder and crop by-products and without
artificial feed additives.
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