Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation. There is a potential opportunity here for greater collaboration between conservation interests, and local communities’ land rights interests with their supporters amongst human rights and social justice movements. This issue paper documents experiences from the rangelands of Mongolia, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, and other countries.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC)
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
This study explores the nature of ecosystem services provided by livestock species and breeds, with special consideration to the important contributions to these by small-scale livestock keepers and pastoralists. Livestock species and breeds are key components of agro-ecosystems. They provide provisioning services (such as the supply of food, fibres and skins), supporting and regulating services (such as waste recycling or weed control) and cultural services (such as cultural heritage and identity). The study describes the most serious constraints and opportunities to the provision of ecosystem services. It identifies international instruments and bodies that support and can further promote the actual and potential roles of livestock species and breeds, as well as their keepers in the provision of ecosystem services.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Servicios ambientales
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Científico
Geographical coverage: Global
Pastoral mobility must be preserved to ensure Mongolian rangeland sustainability. Pastoralism in Mongolia is currently going through major transformations (pasture user groups, cooperatives, draft Land Law, climate change, conflicting forms of land use i.e. mining, cropping, national reserves). In this new context, the value of mobility might not be fully appreciated in new policy formulations, which could weaken Mongolian pastoral systems. Supporting mobility requires an adequate institutional framework in the provision of services (e.g. water, veterinary, education and health) and institutional flexibility with stronger and reciprocal intersoum inter-aymag agreements for hosting neighboring herders during climate shocks.
Year of publication: 2014Organization:
Topic: Organización
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: Asia Central
This brief lists a range of policies to support pastoralists to market their products.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Instituto Internacional de Reconstrucción Rural (IIRR)
Topic: Economía
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This evaluation has three objectives: i) evaluate the overall relevance and coherence of AFD Group interventions; ii) assess the performance of pastoral water projects; iii) propose strategies for continuing the process (with significant changes) or gradually winding it down. This exercise covered 11 projects implemented in three areas of Chad between 1993 and 2013.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Agencia Francesa de Desarrollo
Topic: Tierra
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Central
El pastoralismo forma parte fundamental de los tres pilares de la sostenibilidad y ofrece una combinación de beneficios sociales, ambientales y económicos. Explota vastas áreas de tierra que pueden ser más adecuadas para usos múltiples: la producción extensiva de productos alimenticios de alta calidad en combinación con la prestación de servicios de los ecosistemas de alto valor. Las políticas, los servicios públicos y las inversiones deben adaptarse para apoyar esta combinación de usos y para asegurar que la gama completa de beneficios sean adecuadamente compensados y protegidos.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN), Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (UNEP)
Topic: Economía, Servicios ambientales
Language: العربية, 漢語, English, Français, Русский, Español
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
This field manual supports planning and management in rangelands including in village land use planning.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC)
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Tierra, Organización
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global