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: Individual authors
Topic: Environmental services, Indigenous knowledge
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Europe
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: Individual authors
Topic: Environmental services, Indigenous knowledge
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Europe
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: Individual authors
Topic: Environmental services, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous peoples
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Central Asia
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: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Topic: Economy
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Central Asia
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: International Land Coalition (ILC)
Topic: Land
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Central Asia
As part of the Global Call to Action in Indigenous and Community Land Rights, this brief puts the spotlight on the need to secure land rights for the world’s pastoralists, as pastoralism is practised by an estimated 200-500 million people.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: International Land Coalition (ILC)
Topic: Land
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global
Following years of conflict and national policies aimed at encouraging sedentarization of pastoral populations, international and bilateral actors are increasingly shifting their focus towards supporting animal production systems. This report reviews the state of animal-based livelihoods in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda and examines how animal ownership affects a household’s ability to weather shocks.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Feinstein International Center
Topic: Conflict, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
It is extremely challenging to obtain reliable information on transient pastoral livestock populations wandering across extensive rangelands in search of seasonally available pasture. These Guidelines offer guidance on enumerating livestock through ground and aerial surveys, using input from 9 country case-studies. It is a reference document providing technical and operational guidance on various aspects of the data collection process, with particular attention being paid to developing countries.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Economy, Organization, Participation, Resilience, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Global