Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan
Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan means “welfare organization for livestock keepers” in Hindi.
LPPS is a non-profit organization registered under the Rajasthan Societies Act. It was set up in 1996 to support Raika camel pastoralists in an acute crisis.
Today its work continues to be inspired and shaped by the close association with this traditional pastoralist community, but its goals have widened to embrace people-centred livestock development and the sustainable management of biodiversity rich agro-ecosystems.
LPPS has its base in Sadri in Rajasthan, the drought-prone state in the west of India, where mobile livestock keeping has always been the mainstay of its rural people, especially its pastoralist societies. A close relationship with animals is deeply embedded into Rajasthan’s rural culture, and the state is famous throughout India as home of the one-humped camel and superior indigenous livestock breeds.
LPPS aims to support rural livelihoods through participatory research and community implementation of sustainable land use practices.
LPPS acts as a bridge between traditional and modern animal cultures and knowledge systems.
LPPS promotes sustainable livestock development building on Rajasthan’s traditional culture & knowledge. It mediates between communities and other stakeholders, including government, researchers and the private sector. LPPS advocates for the rights and responsibilities of pastoralists & livestock keepers under national and international legal frameworks, including the Forest Rights Act and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).