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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

Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change and generate sustainable livelihoods.

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Оксфам 
Topic: Изменение климата
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка

This is one of a series of desk reviews produced as part of the project ‘Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility’. It summaries the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility East and West Africa, at the local, national, regional and continental levels, with a specific focus on nine countries (Chad, Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Somaliland, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania).

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Международный институт по окружающей среде и развитию,  
Topic: Организация
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Западная Африка, Восточная Африка

Pastoralism is being considered one of the most viable form of production and land-use in the drylands, but it is also recognised that pastoralists are often restricted due to legal, economic, social and political disincentives and barriers to mobility of livestock and to communal management of rangelands. Little research has been made into whether the situation is reversible. The WISP worked in 6 different countries who reported positive environmental outcomes as a result of policy changes in favour of mobile pastoralism. Though all countries report remaining challenges to securing pastoral livelihoods and promoting sustainable land management, they also report gains have been made as a result of policy changes that have enabled pastoralist natural resource management.

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Индивидуальные авторы, Международный союз охраны природы, Программа развития Организации Объединенных Наций (UNDP) 
Topic: Экологические услуги, Организация, Участие
Language: English
Type of document: Технический, Политика и законодательство
Geographical coverage: Глобальный

This article analyses the impact on household well-being of privatizing land among a community of Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. Results indicate few significant differences in wealth and income between the privatized and communal areas, although cultivation has become an important additional strategy in the privatized community. Groups exhibit different livelihood strategies with wealthier groups relying more on livestock trade and home consumption while poorer groups depend on wage labour and trade for their income. Policy implications of this analysis include the need for development strategies specific to different wealth groups, greater investment in education and infrastructure, and more attention to employment creation in pastoral areas.

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Индивидуальные авторы 
Topic: Экономика
Language: English
Type of document: Технический, Научный, Политика и законодательство
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка