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This report is important for pastoralists as it explicitly mentions pastoralists in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. Converting (pastoral areas) to sedentary agriculture evokes the idea that it is a win-win solution: poor people get their land, sometimes even with formal private titles, while the remainder of the pastoralist or shifting cultivation areas are then taken over by the state. Or, entire communities are just as easily relocated, since shifting cultivation and pastoralist fields are often categorized as state-claimed “empty” land."

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Union européenne (EU) 
Topic: Régime foncier
Language: English
Type of document: Scientifique
Geographical coverage: Global

This note seeks to offer guidance to international, national, and local decision makers on the drivers of conflict and instability that are most related to pastoral communities, as well as possible measures to reduce violence and enhance stability in the Sahel. It attempts to bring together two dimensions related to development: pastoral livelihoods resilience and conflict analysis. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Banque mondiale 
Topic: Conflit
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale

Yak is specially adapted to high-altitude environments and is a flagship species for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. It plays a key role not only in agrobiodiversity conservation and maintaining high-altitude rangeland ecosystems, but also in cultural traditions and livelihood strategies. But yak are coming under increasing pressure with closed borders and restrictions on grazing and movement, and yak herders are facing immense livelihood challenges.

This volume aims to enhance our understanding of yak in the region by bringing together 14 articles from Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan covering a wide range of subjects related to yak raising in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. It provides valuable insights that will help in developing plans for yak genetic conservation, pastoral development, and management measures to enhance system resilience and the adaptive capacity of local communities to ongoing and potential changes.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Centre international de mise en valeur intégrée des montagnes (ICIMOD) 
Topic: Changement climatique, Services environnementaux, Peuples autochtones, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale, Asie du Sud

This catalogue of land use options in Tajikistan is designed for facilitators and community mobilizers to be used in community workshops and at other occasions. The presented land use practices are adapted to the prevailing soil and climate conditions, land use systems and related problems of Tajikistan. The catalogue is also available in Tajik. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Office allemand de la coopération international 
Topic: Régime foncier
Language: English, тоҷикӣ / تاجیکی
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale

An extremely dynamic environment compounded by frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households in the fragile drylands of Africa. If the current situation is precarious, the future promises to be even more challenging. This book discusses what should be the focus of the next generation of interventions aimed at enhancing the resilience of vulnerable dryland populations in the face of demographic, economic, environmental, and climatic change.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Banque mondiale 
Topic: Économie, Services environnementaux, Sécurité alimentaire, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale, Afrique orientale

This study regards two herding/conservation systems (salt steppes and wood-pastures), and developed an inventory on the common/similar and conflicting/different objectives and pasture management practices of herders and conservationists. Extensive land-use often survives in protected areas only, in the form of conservation management. The study suggests a new profession: that of the conservation herder. The conservation herder shall be an individual knowledgeable about herding and pasture management, and trained in conservation and ecology. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Auteurs individuels 
Topic: Économie, Services environnementaux
Language: English
Type of document: Scientifique
Geographical coverage: Europe

This research report and policy brief aims to provide insight into the institutions and local dynamics involved in natural resource management in border communities, and to provide solution-oriented recommendations to address natural resource management challenges.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization:  
Topic: Conflit, Régime foncier
Language: English, Русский
Type of document: Technique, Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale

Le bulletin de veille d’Inter-réseaux est une compilation de la veille sur les actualités du développement rural en Afrique. Il constitue une sélection de références d’actualité jugées intéressantes par Inter-réseaux. Il est publié deux fois par mois et envoyé à plus de 10 000 abonnés

Year of publication: 2016
Organization:  
Topic: Services environnementaux, Sécurité alimentaire, Services sociaux
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Bulletins
Geographical coverage: Afrique du Nord, Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale