This article addresses the politics and practices of natural resource rights with a view to environmental justice. Struggles over identity politics at different geographical scales have become important mediators of claims for justice with respect to resource rights. Analyses of identity-based claims for environmental justice have usually focused on the indigenous peoples’ movement. This article focuses on the emerging global pastoralists’ movement. In recent years, mobile pastoralists have begun to carve out new global spaces, through which diverse groups have tried to negotiate common ground and forge common identities in their struggles for justice. They have become increasingly visible in nature conservation politics and in contests over land rights, claiming to be “custodians of the commons” in an era of global climatic change. The paper draws on empirical work amongst pastoralists, NGOs and activists from Kenya, Mongolia and Spain to explore these identities, their implications for resource rights, and the chains of accountability and legitimacy between global activists and local pastoralists.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Services environnementaux
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Europe, Afrique orientale, Asie centrale
Du 9 au 15 Décembre 2013 : 120 leaders de pasteurs nomades venus de communautés pastorales de 48 pays dans le monde se sont réunis à Kiserian, au Kenya, pour partager des expériences et des préoccupations au sujet de la Transition Globale à l’Economie Verte. Le Pastoralisme – une production extensive de bétails dans les écosystèmes de pâturage - est un des systèmes alimentaires le plus respectueux de l’environnement sur la terre, mais son potentiel à fournir la viande, le lait et les fibres, aussi bien que les services environnementaux comme la mitigation du changement climatique, la conservation de la biodiversité et la protection des points d’eau, est continuellement affecté par de mauvaises politiques, par des investissements mal orientés, par la négligence de droits humains fondamentaux et par la perturbation des pratiques appropriées de gestion des pâturages, y compris la mobilité.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (IUCN), Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (UNEP), Commission économique pour l'Afrique
Topic: Participation
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Global
This policy brief discusses how to best support women’s empowerment and gender equity. It concludes that interventions need to be start with pastoral women themselves. Empowerment is more sustainable when it comes from within. Women’s place and role in the pastoral communities needs to be understood and acknowledged. What empowerment means for pastoral women should influence how this is supported and achieved. The right institutional frameworks and supporting mechanisms are vital to support women’s empowerment.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: , Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA), Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (IUCN), Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (UNDP)
Topic: Jeunesse et égalité des sexes
Language: English
Type of document: Technique, Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Global
The real measure of success in the work that FAO does, is how effectively they help the most needy to live free of hunger, in better health and with stronger livelihoods. In 2013, FAO worked in north-eastern Uganda to explore how the concept of One Health can be implemented at the community level. This video highlights the work that the FAO team together with villagers, district health, agriculture and wildlife officials, and national decision-makers did to improve delivery of health services for pastoralists and their livestock. They identified brucellosis, a bacterial disease causing human suffering and livestock production losses, and took steps to assist in preventing this disease. Most importantly, the video shows how One Health teams can listen carefully to community members, both in setting health priorities and determining the best ways to help the community to improve their lives and livelihoods.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Topic: Sécurité alimentaire, Services de santé, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Vidéos
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
This report highlights the importance of pastoralist livestock mobility for the resilience of pastoralist livelihood systems and for maximising productivity. Tufts and partners monitored camel, sheep and cattle herds for up to five months in Darfur and Kordofan regions of Sudan. Using mixed methods and GPS tracking the study recorded in detail herd movements and management strategies in response to environmental parameters (the advancing rains and greening up of vegetation). The study highlights a diverse range of modernising trends and livelihood adaptations, including for example diversified investment strategies, herder responses to inter-tribal conflict in East Darfur and conflict avoidance strategies. Local case-studies present new evidence of a distinctive pastoralist approach to natural resource management that regulates access to natural resources rather than seeking to control numbers of animals. Not all trends are positive, and thus need to be analysed so as to support the positive while mitigating potential negative consequences.
A Policy Brief of the report can be found here.
Year of publication: 2013Organization:
Topic: Conflit, Économie, Services environnementaux, Sécurité alimentaire
Language: English
Type of document: Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
The representatives of the governments of the six countries of the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal) gathered in Nouakchott by invitation of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), and the World Bank in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and in the presence of representatives of international and regional research organizations, civil society organizations, producers' organizations, the private sector, and technical and financial partners, for the purpose of strengthening the resilience of Sahelo-Saharan pastoral societies.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale
This study gives an in–depth understanding of child labour in selected pastoralist communities in South Sudan. This information can be used to formulate and/or revise public policies and programmes on education and child labour elimination.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Organisation internationale du Travail
Topic: Jeunesse et égalité des sexes
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
Livestock production is a key income source in eastern Africa, and 80% of the total agricultural land is used for livestock herding. Hence, ecological and socio-economically sustainable rangeland management is crucial. This study aimed at selecting operational economic, environmental and social sustainability indicators for three main pastoral (P), agro-pastoral (AP), and landless intensive (LI) small-scale livestock production systems for use in sustainability assessment in Ethiopia. The study concluded that sustainability indicators are valuable tools to highlight shortcomings and strengths of the three main livestock production systems and help with future livestock management in Ethiopia. Selecting suitable indicators, however, is crucial as data requirements and availability can vary across livestock systems
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Sécurité alimentaire, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale