[Iyrp-gcg] IYRP in the most important museums of the world

[Barry Irving]

Francesca;

I think there is some cause for caution here.  I am not in on a promotion
that separates things into us and them.  Mostly because I believe in the
axiom "I have seen the enemy and they are me".  There is so much grey
around what a negative land use is and where that line can be drawn that
maybe we should not be drawing it at all.  Canada, and I am reluctant to
make this statement, is an industrial agricultural production nation.
Canadian agriculture has a history of finding the economic optimum, with a
major focus on the economic.  In a recent evaluation of the sustainability
of food and food delivery systems by the Economist magazine (which I
think could be viewed as somewhat independent) Canada's system was ranked
number 1.  That evaluation included economic and
environmental sustainability.  That leads me to believe that industrial is
not always bad.  My wife and I have now worked with about 100 large ranches
in western Canada on livestock water solutions.  Some are more industrial
than others and all are industrial compared to the production systems we
have seen on some of our travels.  Does being industrial mean these 100
ranches are not sustainable?  I do not believe that is so.  They have
adapted their systems to meet their own situations.  They will need to
continually adapt.

So, when we do promotions, let's consider sticking to the positive side of
any land use, and steer clear of the us versus them type of discussion.
Because, maybe when we paint another part of the agricultural production
spectrum (and we all sit somewhere on that continuum) as bad (them), we are
also painting ourselves into that same picture.

Barry Irving

On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM Francesca Pasetti <fpasettib at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear IYRP GCG
> First of all I would like to wish you a Happy New Year and hope that you
> and your loved ones are doing well.
>
> During my recent Christmas holidays I was in Munich (Germany) with all my
> children and grandchildren and visited the "Deutsches Museum
> <https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum/press/press-kit/press-releases/who-we-are>",
> which as you know is one of the largest and most visited scientific museums
> in Germany.
>
> There was a room with scientific recent university research on legumes to
> replace meat.
> I was very sad to see that the message was against all forms of livestock
> farming, as there is absolutely no awareness of the difference between
> industrial and extensive livestock farming.
>
> My proposal is this:
>
> As we have in IYRP a very solid scientific group of people, with the
> support of several UN organisations, we should be able to propose to all
> the (big) museums of the world, the most visited ones, to realise a
> temporary exposition from 2025 and throughout the whole year of 2026, on
> Pastoralism.
>
> I think we have already collected enough excellent material (films,
> pictures and general international information) to realise an excellent
> exposition to be proposed in all the museums of the world that we can reach
> and that can host this kind of information.
> In Vienna, I think some of you may have visited the excellent Camels
> exhibition that the World Museum is hosting throughout 2024.
>
> We absolutely need to reach with our IYRP message this kind of museums of
> the most visited cities of the world, if possible at least in almost all
> countries where pastoralism is still alive and very important to be
> supported.
> What do you think?
>
> Kind regards
> Francesca
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Francesca Pasetti Bombardella
> Co-chair Regional IYRP  <https://iyrp.info/> Support Group Europe
> Focal Point Spain Nomination Transhumance UNESCO ICH
> International Projects Coordinator Fundación Trashumancia y Naturaleza -
> Spain
> Coordinator Programma TRE Terre Rurali d'Europa - Spain
> Secretary of the Transhumance and Transition UNESCO Club
> Facilitator of the ERASMUS +   “Eco-TransH” project
> Email: fpasettib at gmail.co <fpasettib at gmail.com>m
>
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