LEAD Electronic Newsletter - February 2006 (Livestock, environment and development)

Electronic Newsletter V3N2 - February 2006

LEAD Livestock, Environment And Development

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Welcome to the quarterly newsletter of the LEAD Anglophone Platform. This regular bulletin provides information related to livestock and environment interactions that is essential to achieve sustainable development. It focuses on relevant livestock and environment hotspots across the globe: Pastoralism and Environment; Livestock and Wildlife Integration in Communal Lands Adjacent to Protected Areas; Livestock and Environment Interacctions in Watersheds; Livestock's Role in the Deforestation Process; Land and Water Pollution by Industrial Livestock Production; Livestock Contribution to Climate Change and; Livestock, Environment and Trade Issues.

The Livestock, Environment and Development Photo Gallery offers you a collection of images that documents the interactions between animal production, natural resources and people across the globe. The photographs illustrate all subjects and hotspots of these interactions such as, coexistence of wildlife and biodiversity with livestock and herders; deforestation and habitat degradation associated to cattle raising; pollution from industrial animal production systems and; land degradation and global environmental effects of livestock production.

One World, One Health- Africans' Integrated Approach to Wildlife, Livestock and Human Health Pays Dividends for Conservation and Development

A new book from WCS and IUCN looks at today’s Africa, and how and where wildlife conservation can be a ‘win win’ land use of choice. It features some of the most innovative conservation thinking in Africa today and provides real-world examples of the critical role animal health plays in both environmental conservation and economic development.

Relevance and applicability of the Latin American experience for the development of benefit sharing mechanisms for payment of environmental services at the forest-pasture interface in Southeast and East Asia

This paper analyses the relevance and applicability for Asia of the concept of payments for environmental services at the forest pasture interface of the LEAD-Latin American project "Integrated Silvo-Pastoral Approaches to Ecosystem Management", in terms of land use change, environmental services (especially carbon sequestration) and socio-economic development and; explores the possibilities for the implementation of a benefit sharing payment scheme to compensate farmers for environmental services that can be applied in South East and East Asian countries. The introduction of direct payments for environmental services provided by improved silvo-pastoral systems is highly relevant in Southeast and East Asia for certain agro-ecological zones. The socio, economic and political differences of both regions indicate that for South East and East Asian countries it will be necessary the development of the benefit sharing mechanism for environmental services in communal lands together with the development and strengthening of the institutional, legislative and policy framework.

News
Link to the last news (general information, experts, books, institutions...) concerning livestock and environment.

Events
Link to upcoming meetings, seminars and conferences concerning livestock and environment.

Digital library
Link to the last books and publications concerning livestock and environment interaction, added to the LEAD database.

“ The work of the LEAD Initiative targets at the protection and enhancement of natural resources as affected by livestock production while alleviating poverty ”
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