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This guide is designed to help communities and policy-makers at local and national levels make informed choices regarding land use, business ventures, and public policy in pastoral areas, particularly the Maasai Steppe and other semi-arid parts of East Africa.

Formerly nomadic herders are settling and becoming agro-pastoralists, and subsistence and commercial farmers are plowing the rangeland that sustained both livestock and wildlife. Conflicts are emerging between farmers and herders; wildlife and people; newcomers and traditionalists.

The guide is intended for practitioners working on participatory natural resource use and management. It will be useful for district and village officers, the private sector and government representatives, NGOs and development agencies involved in the processes of land-use planning and natural resource management.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Продовольственная и сельскохозяйственная организация Объединенных Наций 
Topic: Конфликт, Экологические услуги, Земля, Организация, Участие
Language: English, Kiswahili
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка

This report reviews the causes, scale, consequences of, and responses to pastoral conflicts in the border region of Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda, utilizing methodological tools such as key informant interviews, retrospective analysis, and a thorough review of available literature.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Индивидуальные авторы 
Topic: Конфликт
Language: English
Type of document: Научный
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка

This report combines a desktop survey and an in-depth study of Kenya’s legal framework and the extent to which it protects the country’s indigenous peoples. The report often takes reference to indigenous pastoralist groups in Kenya including the Endorois, Borana, Gabra, Maasai, Pokot, Samburu, Turkana and Somali. 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Международная организация труда 
Topic: Коренные народы
Language: English
Type of document: Технический, Научный
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка

In addressing the challenges facing mountain agricultural communities today, it is important to remember that mountain agriculture has developed hand in hand with pastoralism. Both large and small livestock sustain mountain communities, providing resources that complement those provided through agriculture. Pastoralism is not a strategy of last resort for agriculturalists pushed into marginal habitats. In fact, on the southern slopes of the Great Himalaya in Nepal, pastoralism has permitted agricultural communities to thrive and, in some cases, to extend their use of upper elevations into areas where agriculture is either marginal or impossible. A vertical look at lower, middle and upper altitude agropastoral practices provides insight into some different ways in which livestock management and cultivation interact within the larger context of mountain ecology.
 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Индивидуальные авторы 
Topic: Изменение климата, Экономика, Коренные народы, Земля, Быстрая восстанавливаемость, Добавленная стоимость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Южная Азия

This paper addresses the impacts of climate change in Mongolia asking what legal instruments can help to assure the adaptation of pastoralism - being the predominant economic activity and mode of life of the rural population - to the changing conditions. The analysis shows that securing the mobility of herders and their access to the relevant natural resources (pasture land, water, salt-licks) is a key feature for the adaptation to climate change and the corresponding risk management.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Продовольственная и сельскохозяйственная организация Объединенных Наций 
Topic: Изменение климата, Земля, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Центральная Азия

A list with 10 misconceptions is presented and debated. 

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Международный союз охраны природы 
Topic: Экономика, Экологические услуги, Земля
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Глобальный

Pastoral women are extremely strong and powerful people. Despite the many challenges women face, they do find ways to ensure that the household’s basic needs are met; they do find ways to access resources and within the pastoral system, do have ‘rights’ to ownership and use of many of them; and they do find ways to get their voices heard. This report focuses on pastoralist women from pastoral communities across the world producing a global good practice study on pastoralist women’s empowerment.

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Международный союз охраны природы 
Topic: Гендер и молодежь
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Глобальный

This paper developed from an articulated process to address the rights to land of pastoral groups, within a holistic perspective and accounting for changes brought about by climate change. It presents a brief overview of pastoral systems, analyses the rationale behind mobility as a strategy to cope with scarce and variable resource endowment, and finally addresses the rights concerning the access to and the control of resources in the context of climate change. The historical and geographical dimensions of the debate are illustrated by examples from various pastoral areas in the world. Recommendations for appropriate policy options and development initiatives for pastoral areas considering the challenges of climate change are provided in the final section.

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Международный институт по окружающей среде и развитию 
Topic: Изменение климата, Продовольственная безопасность, Земля, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Глобальный