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This report released by Land Matrix gives an overview of and trends in large-scale land deals for agriculture. The report covers the profile of investors, the regions in which land is acquired and the type of land cover and land use targeted, including pastoral lands. It highlights the socio-economic and ecological impacts of such large-scale transnational land acquisitions.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), International Cooperation Centre of Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), University of Pretoria 
Topic: Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

This manual on Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) outlines essential ways to ensure that indigenous peoples can give or withhold their consent to interventions proposed in their lands and territories and do so free of coercion, prior to any decisions being made, and with the necessary information presented to them in a culturally appropriate way. The document is designed for project practitioners for a broad range of development projects and shows how FPIC can be implemented in six steps.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 
Topic: Indigenous peoples, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

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: 2016
Organization: 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: 2016
Organization: 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: 2016
Organization: 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: 2016
Organization: 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: 2016
Organization: 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: 2016
Organization: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) 
Topic: Climate change, Conflict
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa