Recognizing the crucial role of dryland mountains in implementing a truly sustainable development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the UNCCD Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, identified an urgent need to prepare this publication. It provides an overall vision of the ecological, social and cultural features of dryland mountain socio-ecosystems, and aims to demonstrate the importance of investing human and financial resources in dryland mountains ecosystems worldwide in order to limit the impact of global change on the livelihoods and natural resources.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Topic: Changement climatique, Services environnementaux, Finance, Peuples autochtones, Régime foncier, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global
This publication contains the keynotes and case studies that were presented in the plenary sessions of the regional workshop on pastoralism and rangeland management in the Tibetan Plateau in the context of climate and global change. With this publication, the authors attempt to reach a wider readership that has an interest in the changes, challenges and transformations in pastoralism and rangeland management. Some of the key concepts, designs for modernisation and aims for the immediate future in the rural areas of the Tibetan Plateau are presented here in a concise and easily approachable manner by leading experts in the respective fields.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Office allemand de la coopération international
Topic: Changement climatique, Services environnementaux, Régime foncier, Résilience, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale, Asie du Sud
Despite worldwide coverage of climate change impact, there is inter and intra-sectoral variation in vulnerability depending on location, adaptive capacity and other socioeconomic and environmental factors. In Somaliland, adverse impacts of climate change include recurrent droughts, increased biodiversity loss, species migration and encroachment of invasive plants, increased rural urban migration, changes in the vegetation types, soil fertility loss, and increased infestation of crop by pests and diseases and increased health risks.
This publication presents case-studies documented by Candlelight for Health, Education and Environment, focusing on how climate change is impacting the pastoral communities and environment as a whole in the different ecological zones of Somaliland.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Changement climatique, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
Le marketing de niche peut offrir des opportunités pour assurer une production durable dans les régions isolées et permettre d’améliorer les moyens d’existence des éleveurs et des populations impliqués dans la transformation et le commerce des produits. En l’occurrence, il peut apporter des avantages aux femmes et aux pauvres. Il peut également être un outil pour la conservation des races. Ce livre présente huit études de cas, effectuées sur les trois continents – Afrique, Asie et Amérique. Il s’agit de cas où des interventions extérieures ont essayé de développer des marchés pour les produits de spécialité tirés des races locales.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (IUCN), , Ligue des peuples pasteurs (LPP)
Topic: Économie, Value addition
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global
Ces directives ont été élaborées afin d’aider les décideurs politiques, pour qui les questions liées au pastoralisme ne sont peut-être pas des préoccupations de routine, à prendre de meilleurs décisions en matière de politiques et d’investissements ayant un impact sur les pasteurs et leurs environnements. Ces directives sont quelque peu techniques de par leur nature, mais elles visent à transformer des questions complexes ou controversées en des éléments de bases plus opérationnels. Elles ont été conçues en vue d’aider les experts en développement et conservation à se familiariser avec les principes sous-tendant le pastoralisme, ainsi qu’avec certaines des opportunités et contraintes liées au développement durable.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (IUCN)
Topic: Économie, Services environnementaux, Sécurité alimentaire, Régime foncier, Organisation, Participation
Language: العربية, 漢語, English, Français, Русский, Español
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global
« Nous, les femmes pastoralistes rassemblées à Mera, en Inde, du 16 au 21 novembre 2010, représentant 32 pays, nous sommes réunies pour renforcer nos alliances et développer des solutions pratiques aux questions qui nous concernent. »
« Nous présentons cette déclaration comme document d'orientation politique afin d'informer et de soutenir le développement de politiques pastoralistes. »
Year of publication: 2010Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Jeunesse et égalité des sexes, Participation
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Global
The regional workshops within the mountain development programme of InWEnt aim at addressing pressing problems of mutual interest among the participating partners by focusing on a specific topic. In 2010 two conferences on pastoralism were held in the framework of the mountain development programme. Complementing the series that started with the Khorog and Kashgar workshops in July the Lhasa gathering happened to be the final part with a special focus on pastoralism and rangeland management on the Tibetan Plateau. It seems to have been the appropriate timing to emphasize upon a pressing issue that is generating increased and rejuvenated interest in the debates on biodiversity, climate and global change. Planners are challenged by designing concepts for nature protection and resource management in order to implement “green policies”. Decision-makers keep in mind the dual challenges between livelihood improvement and natural resource management by translating and transferring it into modernisation programmes. Far-reaching policies that aim at a reconciliation between ecological necessities and economic demands are tested and implemented in a grand design. Especially the Tibetan Plateau is an arena where the term eco-shelter has become a specific meaning that is affecting the reconciliation between nature and society as well as leading to far-reaching transformations in settlement structures and economic strategies. Recent interventions have changed and modified pastoral practices, terminated and extinguished certain traditions and opened-up new hitherto unknown and unexpected opportunities for pastoralists on the Tibetan Plateau. On the vast Tibetan Plateau pastoralism and rangeland management are not only challenges for regional planning, both sectors offer a tremendous economic potential and are proof for the adaptive properties and resilience of pastoralists exposed to harsh environmental conditions and all kinds of changes.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Changement climatique
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale
The Policy Framework for Pastoralism in Africa is the first continent-wide policy initiative which aims to secure, protect and improve the lives, livelihoods and rights of African pastoralists. The policy framework is a platform for mobilizing and coordinating political commitment to pastoral development in Africa, and emphasizes the need to fully involve pastoralist women and men in the national and regional development processes from which they are supposed to benefit. The framework also emphasizes the regional nature of many pastoralist ecosystems in Africa and therefore, the need to support and harmonize policies across the Regional Economic Communities and Member States.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: Bureau interafricain pour les ressources animales (AU-IBAR)
Topic: Sécurité alimentaire, Peuples autochtones, Organisation, Participation, Services sociaux
Language: English
Type of document: Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Afrique du Nord, Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale, Afrique orientale, Afrique australe