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Funding:

The Foundation for Natural Livestock Farming was formally registered in October 2014.
The Foundation is ANBI registered for charity funding since 1 January 2018.

Most of the funding for the activities is acquired through the respective partner organizations. Since 2014 over 3 million euros have been used for implementation of programs in the various countries. The funding for centralized activities through NLF Foundation are relatively small, and used for exchange activities and overall promotion and upscaling of NLF concept.

RSIN/Fiscal number: 858002528
Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number: 69764654.

Activities

Each country involved with NLF is facing their own challenges NLF works to safeguard, expand and spread knowledge about healthy animals based on what the natural environment has to offer, by:

  1. Building on a variety of knowledge systems in the world
  2. Combining grass-root expertise, especially from farmers & veterinarians – with scientific backup
  3. Multi country program, combining expertise from countries with a variety of farming systems, learning from each other’s mistakes and success
  4. Piloting solutions based on the NLF 5-layered strategy

NLF core activities are action research, exchange of best practices and training. The combination of bottom-up experimentation and peer to peer exchange is additional to existing initiatives in this field. This opens up opportunities that more conventional programs fail to unlock. And provides opportunity for increased farm income, better child nutrition, improved food quality and biodiversity.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    There are several ways to become connected as an individual. You can become part of the NLF e-list, where we update each other on the latest activities and insights. Or follow us on social media. You can also join our regular NLF webinars on specific topics. Please let us know by sending an e-mail to info@naturallivestockfarming.com.

    If you are located in one of the participating countries (India, Ethiopia, Uganda, Netherlands) you can connect to the NLF representatives in the country. See NLF country pages.

    For those living outside these countries and interested to become part of the network: we can join forces to find funds for a local project in your country, and sign an MOU. Please send us your ideas by connecting through info@naturallivestockfarming.com.

    We are in the process of developing NLF training sessions, on specific topics related to cattle/farm management, strategic breeding, use of herbs (ethnovet medicine), milk quality and farm income (NLF 5-layers). Moreover, we can offer courses on Lessons learnt in Dutch dairy farming; and Participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation with smallholder dairy farmers. Courses and the cost of participation will be announced on the website.

    Some of the NLF at country level have specialized in other livestock species, such as chicken and small ruminants in India, and pigs, chicken, small ruminants, rabbits etc in the   Netherlands.

    Reducing the use of antibiotics in dairy farming was the topic at the start of the activities of the Foundation. Steadily we became aware that resistance against antibiotics is not the only issue related to resistance: also the resistance of ticks against acaricides, and resistance of worms against anthelmintics is growing. Moreover, the relevance of this problem is rapidly growing due to climate change. We found that our methodology of joint learning and application of the NLF 5-layer approach is also effective for these challenges.

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