GOOD PRACTICES / CASE STUDIES
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]
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]
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