Rangeland resources constitute around 60 percent of Pakistan’s land area. Randlands are in a deteriorating state and the current productivity is far less than its potential. This book will help in the management of Pakistan's rangeland resources. It describes the extent of the rangelands, their productivity, the prevailing trends and their contribution to local livelihoods, food security and nutrition. It also describes the key problems to sustainable management and gives recommendations to enhance the output of functions and services.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Economy, Environmental services, Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: South Asia
Pastoralism from a temporal dimension is as old as the first human civilization; and spatially it is witnessed all across the world’s dry belt region. Pastoralists and their way of life are yet to receive the attention they deserve, since current development paradigms emphasize intensive and sedenterized farming systems to fulfill the increasing demand for food. Further, there are limited studies and indepth integrated research that help us to understand pastoralism in a holistic way. This study addresses the critical gap in knowledge regarding gender experiences in pastoralism through the synthesis and analysis of five case-studies from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The authros argue that pastoralist women are often at the 'margins of margins' of development, yet the knowledge, agency and voices of both men and women are critical for systainable mountain environments and livelihoods.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Topic: Gender and youth, Indigenous knowledge, Organization, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: South Asia
This publication compares traditional sheep and goat production systems in the Mediterranean that rely on local resources, short supply chains and artisanal transformation practices with value chains based on agribusiness models that use mass distribution channels, concentrate processing work, and intensify production systems. This diversity of production systems has provided many different products, shaped a variety of environments and landscapes, maintained territories and arable and pastoral land uses, and fixed populations in the rural areas. The document compiles the contributions presented at the 15th Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM Sub-Network on Sheep and Goat Nutrition, held in Montpellier, France in 2015.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Topic: Economy, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Scientific
Geographical coverage: Europe
Una "película ambulante" formada por 52 fragmentos, 52 paradas a través de un largo camino en el espacio y el tiempo. Una película compuesta por imágenes, sonido ambiente y un relato locutado.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Indigenous peoples
Language: Español
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: West Africa
The Regional Pasture Knowledge Exchange Network is a platform that connects policy makers, practitioners and researchers in Central Asia, China and Mongolia to exchange knowledge and share experience on pasture management. Its E-library stores a variety of documents in English, Russian and Kirghiz on pastures, natural resources management and climate change.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Topic: Economy, Environmental services, Food security, Land
Language: English, Deutsch, Кыргыз тили, Русский
Type of document: Databases
Geographical coverage: Central Asia
An emerging narrative points to global warming as a driver of conflict in the Sahel – but this narrative risks glossing over the real root causes.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Topic: Climate change, Conflict
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa
The Technical Guide on Pastoralism builds on a number of initiatives and studies from recent years on pastoral governance and land tenure that have shone a light on the inherent challenges pastoralists face, the shortcomings of governments in securing pastoral tenure, and the emerging examples of success and progress from around the world. This Technical Guide provides solutions to securing pastoral governance and tenure without undermining the inherent, necessary complexity of customary arrangements.
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Year of publication: 2016Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Environmental services, Food security, Land, Organization
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
The case studies in this paper are drawn from several Ethiopian regional states. They describe not only why, how, and when pastoralists plan, but also the management and governance structures that control planning processes and the later implementation of the plans. By doing this, the paper provides guidance on how best such planning processes can be supported, and how they can be integrated with and/or built on by other planning processes such as those led by government.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: International Land Coalition (ILC)
Topic: Economy, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous peoples, Land, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa