Anthra's core strength is its organic link to community-led action research projects. Through these projects we work closely with diverse livestock-rearing and farming communities to enable them to:

* Articulate problems which need to be addressed, and
* Innovate and document different strategies and approaches that strengthen livestock-rearing practices and
* Safeguard and sustain livelihoods systems based on bio diversity of flora and fauna.

Our research is the lifeline to the other aspects of our work like documentation, publications, training and policy research. It is this link that makes for Anthra's integrated approach. We work with and for the community in order to enable them to work effectively. On principle and as policy Anthra ensures that its research does not compromise the rights of communities to their livelihoods, knowledge systems and biodiversity. We do not patent the positive results of any research and firmly believe that such results should be disseminated among, and actually used by, as large a number of farmers and pastoralists as possible.

Projects implemented to date include:

Indigenous Knowledge in Animal Health (IKAH project).

Documentation of traditional feeds and fodder (Fodder Project).

In-situ conservation of Aseel Poultry Breed by adivasi communities of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh.

Projects to establish community herbal and fodder nurseries and gardens and biodiversity parks with communities.

Production of herbal medicines by healers and health workers for their wider use and availability by local communities.