As livestock becomes increasingly recognized for its significant contribution to Gross Domestic Product and exports, this report investigates the practice of pastoralism in Sudan. The authors delineate migration patterns, rationales, and market strategies, and offer recommendations for policymakers and service providers interacting with communities that practice pastoralism.
Year of publication: 2016Organization:
Topic: Conflicto, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Norte de África
This document summarizes Hungarian herders’ understandings, knowledge and arguments of their traditional ecological knowledge. It is based on a film produced for Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Traditional herders possess a rich knowledge mostly inherited from the family and previous generations, and tested and adapted during their personal life.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Servicios ambientales, El conocimiento indígena
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Europa
This article presents the results of interviews done with Hungarian cattle herders and shepherds. This article’s key message is that cattle herders and shepherds with their traditional ecological knowledge, have a significant role in sustaining the ‘functioning’ of nature preserved in cultural landscapes. Herders do have a place in protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity, and contribute a great deal to ensure the natural environment which we have received from our ancestors is handed over to the upcoming generations.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Servicios ambientales, El conocimiento indígena
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Europa
This article is based on a 15-minute film in which three Sami reindeer herders from the Sirges community, Jakob Nygård, Lars-Evert Nutti and Mats-Peter Åstot, reflect on nature’s functioning and diversity and reveal the knowledge they have acquired from thorough daily observations of reindeer herds and boreal ecosystems.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Servicios ambientales, El conocimiento indígena
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Europa
This article discusses the impacts of climatic change on sable hunting for the Evenk, a minority indigenous people of Russia. Sables (a small carnivorous mammal) are mainly hunted for their fur. Climate change leads to specific environmental changes, which in turn creates changes in traditional economic practices, which then triggers socio-economic problems among a population that needs to adapt its hunting techniques.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Servicios ambientales, El conocimiento indígena, Pueblos indígenas
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Asia Central
This picture series is a participatory, inclusive adult education training method for communities and other local level stakeholders in development programmes dealing with yak milk production.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Centro internacional para la ordenación integrada de las montañas (ICIMOD)
Topic: Economía
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Asia Central
Meet Hajekber Serikbol, a pastoralist community leader in the Western Foothills of Mongolia. They call themselves the "friendship community" and are part of 200-500 million nomadic custodians that take care of our planet, managing rangelands that cover a quarter of the world's land surface. This film is part of the Global Call to Action Initiative, aimed at doubling the global area of land legally recognized as owned or controlled by Indigenous Peoples and local communities by 2020.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC)
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Asia Central
Como parte del Llamamiento mundial a la acción sobre los derechos a la tierra de los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades, este documento informativo pone de relieve la necesidad de asegurar en todo el mundo los derechos a la tierra de los pastores, dado que se calcula que unos 200-500 millones de personas se dedican al pastoreo.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC)
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: Global