This publication presents terms and definitions to ensure clear international communication regarding grazing lands and grazing animals.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Servicios ambientales
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Global
The needs of nomadic pastoralists are generally complex and those relating to the provision of education need special attention due to the many challenges facing the children and the communities. Recognizing this, the Ministry of Education in Kenya, in collaboration with its development partners, has drafted this policy framework to enable Kenya’s nomadic communities to access basic education and training.
The Ministry acknowledges that education cannot be provided to nomadic communities without taking their socio-cultural and other developmental concerns into consideration. Therefore, it proposes multiple approaches such as mobile schools, non-formal schools, formal schools, and boarding schools, as well as creating linkages between these approaches. The policy framework is therefore aimed at providing broad guidelines for the coordination and harmonization of efforts in the delivery of quality educational services to nomadic communities.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Educación, Género y juventud, Servicios sociales
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
Los derechos milenarios de los ganaderos a desplazarse libremente por el territorio nacional fueron reconocidos en 1212 en Aragón por Jaime I, con el Fuero de Pastura universal, y en 1273 en Castilla y León por Alfonso X, con la creación del Concejo de la Mesta. La importancia que adquirió la trashumancia en España es debida a la alternancia de recursos pastables alternativos en invierno y en verano, para lo cual los ganados deben desplazarse frecuentemente a larga distancia, entre 400 y 600 Km, recorriendo las cañadas durante 4 o 6 semanas en primavera y algo más en otoño, al ser las noches más prolongadas. El mayor beneficio se obtenía del comercio de la lana de las ovejas merinas, la más fina del mundo, y que se exportaba a todos los países europeos. Constituyó un preciado monopolio español hasta la invasión napoleónica del siglo XIX.
Year of publication: 2011Organization:
Topic: Servicios ambientales, El conocimiento indígena, Tierra
Language: Español
Type of document: Mapas
Geographical coverage: Europa
Recognizing the crucial role of dryland mountains in implementing a truly sustainable development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the UNCCD Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, identified an urgent need to prepare this publication. It provides an overall vision of the ecological, social and cultural features of dryland mountain socio-ecosystems, and aims to demonstrate the importance of investing human and financial resources in dryland mountains ecosystems worldwide in order to limit the impact of global change on the livelihoods and natural resources.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales, Finanzas, Pueblos indígenas, Tierra, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
This publication contains the keynotes and case studies that were presented in the plenary sessions of the regional workshop on pastoralism and rangeland management in the Tibetan Plateau in the context of climate and global change. With this publication, the authors attempt to reach a wider readership that has an interest in the changes, challenges and transformations in pastoralism and rangeland management. Some of the key concepts, designs for modernisation and aims for the immediate future in the rural areas of the Tibetan Plateau are presented here in a concise and easily approachable manner by leading experts in the respective fields.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Sociedad Alemana de Cooperación Internacional (GIZ)
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales, Tierra, Resiliencia, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Asia Central, Asia Meridional
Despite worldwide coverage of climate change impact, there is inter and intra-sectoral variation in vulnerability depending on location, adaptive capacity and other socioeconomic and environmental factors. In Somaliland, adverse impacts of climate change include recurrent droughts, increased biodiversity loss, species migration and encroachment of invasive plants, increased rural urban migration, changes in the vegetation types, soil fertility loss, and increased infestation of crop by pests and diseases and increased health risks.
This publication presents case-studies documented by Candlelight for Health, Education and Environment, focusing on how climate change is impacting the pastoral communities and environment as a whole in the different ecological zones of Somaliland.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
These guidelines for best sustainable land management technologies and approaches are made for practitioners, managers, policymakers, planners, together with financial and technical institutions and donors. They are divided into two main parts. Part 1 highlights the main principles behind sustainable land management, and what considerations are important for technologies and approaches to qualify as ‘best practices’ suitable for upscaling. Part 2 presents twelve groups of sustainable land management technologies as well as a section on sustainable land management approaches. The focus is, in particular, on those practices with rapid payback and profitability and/or other factors that drive adoption.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Reseña mundial de enfoques y tecnologías de la conservación (WOCAT),
Topic: Tierra
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Central, África Oriental, África Meridional
El mercadeo en nichos puede ofrecer oportunidades para la producción sostenible en las zonas marginales y puede mejorar los medios de subsistencia de los pastores y de las personas involucradas en la elaboración y comercialización de los productos. Puede también ser especialmente beneficioso para las mujeres y los pobres. También puede ser una herramienta para la conservación de las razas. Este libro describe ocho casos en África, Asia y América Latina donde mediante intervenciones externas se ha intentado desarrollar productos especializados derivados de las razas autóctonas.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN), , Liga de Comunidades de Pastores (LPP)
Topic: Economía, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global