This declaration was made at the world gathering of nomadic and transhumant pastoralists in Segovia, Spain in September 2007. Two hundred nomadic and transhumant pastoralists urged governments and international organizations to recognise the importance of pastoralism and to support pastoralist communities worldwide.
Year of publication: 2007Organization: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Topic: Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global
Niger’s experience in terms of pastoralists’ mobility and cattle circulation rights is a model and may be presented through an overview of some key relevant laws. This overview reveals that the policies boil down to a few strong principles, and Niger’s contribution to the sub-region’s recognition of the need for and usefulness of mobility (international transhumance) in the ECOWAS zone. Asserting these principles has assured pastoralists recognition of their activity, their way of life, and their specific rights across an important portion of the national territory. However, in the study area, the enforcement of texts is not beneficial to pastoralists and in a context of a strong demographic growth, recognition of their rights is made more difficult by the rush for land tenure. As a result of the loss of consideration for their way of life and the lack of recognition of their contribution to the development of pastoral areas, they are asking for the States Generals on pastoralism to be convened to allow them to contribute to the Pastoral Code in preparation.
Year of publication: 2007Organization: Individual authors, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Topic: Conflict, Indigenous knowledge, Innovation, Land, Organization, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: West Africa
The study contributes to building an enabling environment for pastoral sustainable rangeland management through enhanced local-level advocacy based on sound knowledge management on the impact of current policies on pastoralism. This Sudan case study is focused on the national policy towards Traditional Livestock Migration Routes (Darfur States Case). The study evaluates the success of the intervention carried by The Administrative Committee for Routes Delineation - Darfur States (ACRD-DS) and the impact this has had on the wider pastoralist environment. It contributes to WISP’s efforts to demonstrate that, given an enabling policy environment, pastoralists can be the best custodians of the drylands environment.
Year of publication: 2007Organization: GEF Global Environmental Facility, Individual authors, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Topic: Organization
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
Transhumant pastoralism is a reality in animal production systems in the Sahel and West Africa (SWA), which despite its importance, it still faces serious obstacles that threaten its potential production. This policy note aims at highlighting the best ways at international and regional levels in order to develop and implement policies and strategies aimed to support transhumant pastoralism while creating conditions for change to sedentary agro-pastoralism.
Year of publication: 2007Organization: Individual authors, World Bank
Topic: Economy, Innovation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa
Mobile pastoralism is the most sustainable way to manage the World’s rangelands, and alternative land-uses come at an environmental and an economic cost. The magnitude of those costs is not properly understood, and they may well be incurred with many people not noticing. If countries that possess significant rangelands desire to reverse desertification and overcome poverty, then it is crucial that they recognise the environmental logic of mobile pastoralism and its great economic potential.
Year of publication: 2007Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Topic: Economy
Language: 中文, English, Français, Español
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global
This review of the literature on pastoralist economics is a contribution to the global learning on the importance of mobile pastoralism as a form of productive and sustainable land management. The review is intended to highlight existing knowledge on the value of pastoralism, the gaps in this knowledge, trends in pastoral economies and policy options that can support drylands economies most effectively.
Year of publication: 2006Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Topic: Economy
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
Eight regional studies were carried out in the context of the Global review of the economics of pastoralism. The studies identify how pastoralism contributes to domestic and global markets in different regions. The studies capture the following regions: Horn of Africa and Southern Africa; West Africa; Eastern Africa; Northern Africa; South America; Asia; Middle East; and Europe.
Year of publication: 2006Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Topic: Economy
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: North America, Latin America, Europe, Near East, North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia
Many policy makers in East Africa have preconceptions about the value of pastoralism as a land-use system believing it to be economically inefficient and environmentally destructive. Yet, this is not evidence-based. Not only is there no consensus on what is a dynamic economic model of pastoralism, no mechanisms exist to inform government decision-making of its comparative advantages over alternative land uses. A new conceptual framework is needed to assess the value of pastoralism that goes beyond conventional economic criteria in order to provide fresh insights to its contribution to poverty reduction, sustainable environmental management and the economic development of dryland areas of East Africa in the context of increasing climate uncertainty. This paper proposes such a framework.
Year of publication: 2006Organization: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Topic: Economy, Value addition
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa