Ce guide constitue un outil à destination des acteurs de terrain au Niger. Il vise à contribuer à l'amélioration de la gouvernance foncière pastorale et en particulier à la prévention et à la résolution des conflits et au développement de processus de concertation inclusifs.
Le guide est unique car il est élaboré en collaboration avec un pour les éleveurs au Niger. Il sera un outil concret pour aider les acteurs à résoudre les conflits liés à l'accès aux ressources naturelles au niveau local.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة
Topic: صراع, الإدراك الفطري, نوع الملكية, مشاركة
Language: Français
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: غربية افريقيا
Yak herding plays an important role in the domestic economy throughout much of the Asian highlands from Russia and Kyrgyzstan in the west to the Hengduan Mountains of China in the east. Yak also has great cultural significance to the people of the Asian highlands and is closely interlinked to the traditions, cultures, and rituals of the herding communities. However, increasing issues like poverty, environmental degradation, and climate change have changed the traditional practices of pastoralism, isolating and fragmenting herders and the pastures they have been using for many years. Local cultures of people rooted in the practice of yak herding are disappearing. Therefore, it is very important to document the socioeconomic and cultural aspects of yak herding. The broad aim of this paper was to provide a brief overview on the geographical distribution of yak in the Asian highlands and to provide in-depth information on yak-herding ethnic communities, the sociocultural aspect associated with yak herding, and challenges and emerging opportunities for yak herding in the Asian highlands. Altogether, 31 ethnic groups in 10 different countries of Asia and their cultures are documented herein. Yak was found to be utilized for many different household purposes, and to have cultural and religious aspects. Unfortunately, yak rearing and related traditions have been losing their charm in recent years due to modernization and several other environmental issues. Lastly, we suggest that there is an urgent need to take action to minimize the challenges faced by yak-herding mountain communities to conserve the traditional pastoral system and associated cultures of these ethnic communities.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: الشعوب الأصلية
Language: English
Type of document: علمي
Geographical coverage: آسيا الوسطى
The Greater Karamoja Cluster (GKC) encompasses the southwestern parts of Ethiopia, northwestern Kenya, the southeastern parts of South Sudan and northeastern Uganda. Though livestock is a crucial livelihood asset, the region is poorly integrated into national livestock marketing systems and conspicuously absent from the vibrant business of livestock exports from the Horn of Africa.
Year of publication: 2019Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة
Topic: مشاركة, مرونة
Language: English
Type of document: السياسات والتشريعات
Geographical coverage: شرق أفريقيا
This study aimed to analyze the spatial and temporal variation of the vegetation in the northern Argentine Puna, utilizing both field sampling and remote-sensing tools. The study was performed within the Pozuelos Biosphere Reserve (Jujuy Province, Argentina), which aims to generate socio-economic development compatible with biodiversity conservation.
Year of publication: 2019Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: الخدمات البيئية, نوع الملكية
Language: English
Type of document: علمي
Geographical coverage: أمريكا اللاتينية
Through knowledge, documentation and evaluation, this book links academic disciplines to convey the complexities and possibilities existing across drylands. The chapters draw together a great variety of global drylands. Research explores the Gobi Desert and China, Central Asia and the Middle East, as well as multiple African dimensions and Latin America. The aim is to understand the essential themes that arid and semi-arid regions encounter and engage with today. This interdisciplinary study reflects the vital links between social and environmental science in global deserts. Using mixed methodologies and varied techniques, the original work stresses today’s topical themes to present novel analyses. The book offers much to dryland researchers, stakeholders and importantly, policy makers, who shape the world’s vast desert landscapes.
Year of publication: 2019Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: نوع الملكية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
This publication constitutes a practical development tool, which implements the sustainable food value chain framework with a focus on small-scale livestock producers, targeting an audience of project design teams and policymakers. By integrating the concepts of value addition and the three dimensions of sustainability, the sustainable food value chain framework not only addresses questions concerning the competitiveness, inclusion and empowerment of small-scale producers, but also incorporates the cross-cutting issues that are increasingly embedded in development projects. These guidelines take the user through the different steps of value chain development, highlighting the particularities of the smallholder livestock sector, such as multi-functionality, specific production cycles or food safety issues, through concrete examples.
Year of publication: 2019Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة
Topic: القيمة المضافة
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
The following paper is a report for Roads Less Travelled, a global partnership of DiversEarth, Yolda Initiative and Trashumancia y Naturaleza, which makes the case for mobile pastoralism (transhumance, nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralism) at a global scale, through new research, support to pastoral communities, and through creative celebration of their knowledge and ways of life. This paper contributes to a stream of work by Roads Less Travelled on mobile pastoralists and protected areas.
Year of publication: 2019Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: الخدمات البيئية, الإدراك الفطري
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
This article illustrates how the introduction of modern geospatial surveying technology in Tanzania has failed to resolve a boundary conflict. The conflict exists between the state and nature conservation authorities on one side and a rural community of pastoralists on the other. The article shows how state and conservation officials have relied on the insights from fact-finding exercises to dismiss rural land use practices that are not represented in official maps. Pastoralists resist these state- and conservation-centered practices of fixed boundaries to maintain a historical, vital geography of seasonal access to pastures and water. In conclusion, this article highlights the pitfalls of geospatial land surveys and fact-finding exercises that unearth and lay bare a boundary conflict previously hidden from the state’s view. Through enhanced legibility, rural communities may become visible to the state, risking dispossession and evictions.
Year of publication: 2019Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: صراع, نوع الملكية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: شرق أفريقيا