ANTHRA
ANTHRA is an registered Indian NGO, founded by women veterinary
scientists 1992. It focuses primarily on issues of livestock development, in
the wider context of sustainable natural resource use.
http://www.anthra.org
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Assisi Acupuncture
This website is operated by Ann-si Li, a veterinarian who combines allopathy
with alternative veterinary medicine in her small-animal practice. The site
gives information about veterinary acupuncture and traditional Chinese
medicine.
www.assisiacupunctureltd.com
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CAPE
CAPE is a unit of the Pan African Programme for the Control of Epizootics
(PACE), within the Organization of African Unity/Interafrican Bureau for
Animal Resources (OAU/IBAR) and stands for ‘Community-based Animal Health
and Participatory Epidemiology Unit’. The site makes CAPE's research and
policy materials available to a global audience. It also informs on
publications, conferences and meetings, and other things. The site has been
developed by Eldis and its Pastoralism Resource Centre (http://www.eldis.ids.ac.uk/pastoralism/index.htm)
in close cooperation with CAPE.
http://www.cape-ibar.org/
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Livestock and
Rangeland Knowledgebase
The Livestock and Rangeland Knowledgebase (LRKB) of IFAD is an
electronic platform for learning and sharing the experience gained from
investing in rural (livestock) development for poverty reduction. It
provides appropriate interactive knowledge tools to policy makers, project
design and project management staff. Currently there are 38 livestock
projects analysed in detail in LRKB, including projects where animal health
was a major component.
http://www.ifad.org/lrkm/index.htm
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League for Pastoral Peoples
The League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP) is an advocacy and support NGO for
pastoralists who depend on common-property resources. Together with its
Indian partner organisation Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, LPP runs a camel
project in Rajasthan that integrates both Western and local methods of
animal healthcare. LPP initiated the LIFE network (see below).
www.pastoralpeoples.org
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LIFE
LIFE is a network that seeks to conserve domestic animal diversity by
building on farmers' and pastoralists' indigenous knowledge and institutions
within the context of local and regional development. Their site provides
information on the network’s aims and activities.
www.lifeinitiative.net/
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NetVet
Ken Boschert, a veterinarian at Washington University's Division of
Comparative Medicine, operates this website. It focuses on veterinary
medicine (alternative as well as conventional) and related fields. The site
features comprehensive lists of related organisations, mailing lists and
websites, plus a "World Wide Web Virtual Library of Veterinary Medicine."
http://netvet.wustl.edu/
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Rural Poultry
The site is set up by the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR,
www.aciar.gov.au) and
the University of Queensland (www.uq.edu.au).
It provides some basic information on small flocks of scavenging local
chickens kept by people in developing countries for researchers,
non-government organisations, educators, extensionists and farmers.
http://www.vsap.uq.edu.au/ruralpoultry
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Vetaid
Vetaid is a British NGO and an affiliate of Vétérianires Sans Frontières.
It works with local organisations in under-privileged countries to prevent
suffering and hunger through improved animal healthcare and stockraising.
Their site informs on Vetaid, its projects and publications, including
reports, EVM-oriented theses from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for
Tropical Veterinary Medicine, and other documents on EVM.
www.vetaid.org
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Vetwork
Vetwork is a British NGO and promotes participatory livestock development.
Their site presents information, an electronic magazine and contact
addresses relating to community-based animal healthcare. It also contains
the proceedings of the international conference on ethnoveterinary medicine
held in Pune, India, in November 1997.
www.vetwork.org.uk
