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The potential for rangeland development in Yak rearing areas of the Tibetan Plateau
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2000This paper initially highlights the general characteristics of rangelands and pastoral production systems of the Tibetan Plateau.The article finds that:given the realities of life in a heterogeneous and marginal environment, the issue of secure resource tenure, both customary and legal, is fundamental for effective rangeland managementa simple shift in tenure from the communal (tradDocumentBooklet of CGIAR Centre policy instruments, guidelines and statements on genetic resources, biotechnology and intellectual property rights
Bioversity International, 2001Collection of genetic resources biotechnology and IPR related policies produced by Future Harvest Centres and subsequently endorsed by CGIAR members, GRPC and / or the Centre Directors Committee for System-wide adoption.The first section of the booklet concerns the policies and guidelines for managing the in-trust plant genetic resources collections.DocumentNuer ethno-veterinary knowledge: a resource manual findings of a preliminary study
Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2001This study is associated with the OLS Livestock Programme.DocumentLearning about Liei: participatory diagnosis of the chronic wasting problem in cattle in southern Sudan
Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2000This article discusses a cattle disease called liei or noi, a disease predominantly found in Southern Sudan.The article finds that:these diseases present a special challenge to a community-based programme that covers a large area characterised by very poor infrastructure, minimal laboratory facilities and operational constraints such as severe conflictfew workers in soDocumentTransgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize in Oaxaca, Mexico
GE Food Alert Campaign Centre, 2001Samples of native landraces of maize from two remote locations in Southern Mexico were tested along with a local commercial sample and seeds collected in the same area in 1971.DocumentRaika sheep husbandry and ethnoveterinary knowledge
Local Livestock for Empowerment of Rural People, League for Pastoral People, 2001This thesis describes the sheep husbandry and healthcare system of the Raikas in south-central Rajasthan.The article concludes that:Raikas rely on self treatment and traditional healers and will rarely avail to Governmental veterinary hospitals and veterinarianssome beliefs by the Raikas about disease etiology, epidemiology or an animals biology are not always scientifically correctDocumentKaramojong scientists: participatory field trial of a local dewormer
Ethnovetweb, 2000This article concerns itself with the pastoralists of the arid-semi-arid and insecure Karamoja of Northeastern Uganda. This article describes ongoing participatory field trials of Albezia anthelmentica as an economically viable way for pastoralists in this region to deworm their livestock.The article finds that:A.DocumentNew enclosures: alternative mechanisms to enhance corporate monopoly and bioserfdom in the 21st century
Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2001Intellectual property has proved a poor mechanism in corporations battle to monopolise new biotechnologies.DocumentParticipation in agricultural extension (World Bank)
Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 1999DocumentThe predicament of the peasants in conservation-based development
Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989Issues to be addressed in addressing the predicament of peasants in conservation-based development:how to compensate for the loss of pasture?how to design an integrated approach whereby closure is combined with measures to increase fodder production?how to coordinate closure with other, subsidiary measures so that the costs to the peasants are minimised?how to get beyondPages