Livelihoods

LPPS manages projects to promote pastoralism as profitable livelihood that uses dryland resources in an ecologically sustainable way.

Cashing in on desert products: Reviving Rajasthan's camel husbandry

This project promotes camels as a source of income in Rajasthan's deserts. The project will:

• Educate and raise awareness of traditional camel breeding communities about new marketing options
• Support camel breeders in innovating their production systems
• Establish linkages with research institutes
• Liaise with and lobby government agencies for an appropriate policy framework
• Catalyze private sector involvement and investment in manufacturing and marketing camel products
• Strengthen camel breeders' organisation to retain ownership of production processes
• Facilitate establishment of a common platform for all stakeholders in the camels.

LPPS has opened an office in Jaisalmer to manage this project. Contact:

Hanwant Singh Rathore
Reviving Rajasthan's Camel Husbandry Project
LPPS, Plot #760, Anchalwansi Colony, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
Tel. 02992-250652, mobile 09414818564
camelherds@yahoo.co.in, www.lpps.org

Reviving Rajasthan's Camel Husbandry is a project of Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, conducted in cooperation with the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development in the context of the LIFE Network and supported by the Ford Foundation.

More information

Cashing in on desert products: Reviving Rajasthan's camel husbandry Project brochure Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, 2006 Download 213 kb, 131 kb