Activities

LPPS's current activities include:

• Advocacy for policies that are more favourable to livestock keepers and support conservation of livestock biodiversity as well as sustainable land-use policies.
• Animal genetic resources: researching traditional livestock breeds and campaigning to conserve them.
• Camels: promoting this endangered emblem of Rajasthan.
• Health services. LPPS is one of the few organizations to provide veterinary health services to pastoralists in Rajasthan. LPPS provides trypanosomiasis prophylaxis and mange treatment for camel rearers in the Godwar area. It also educates the camel owners in the use of modern medicines, while encouraging traditional medicine.
• Indigenous knowledge: promoting it as a basis for local development.
• Livelihoods: LPPS manages projects to promote pastoralism as profitable livelihood that uses dryland resources in an ecologically sustainable way.
• Organizing livestock keepers so they can participate in decisions that affect them. For example, LPPS helped local camel breeders to form their own society, the Godwar Unt Palak Vikas Samiti.
• People-centred livestock development: promoting livestock development as if people mattered.
• Publications to document these approaches and support our work.
• Research. LPPS conducts practical, applied research on the livelihoods or pastoralists in Rajasthan. This work includes studies of a survey of camel breeders and their problems in districts of Jalore and Barmer as well as at the Pushkar fair; sheep raising; and indigenous breeds. 
• Saving Raika heritage by documenting and showcasing their traditional knowledge.
• Sheep: research and training on this mainstay of semi-arid India.
• Training of livestock keepers in appropriate technologies and awareness-raising about the macro-economic context they are operating in. For example, LPPS conducts sewing and embroidery courses for women in several villages.
• Workshops and conferences to propagate holistic development approaches drawing on indigenous knowledge.