<div dir="ltr">Dear GCG members<div>Please find attached minutes of a meeting with the FAO COFO Working Group on Dryland Forests about the role of pastoralists and rangelands, that Igshaan and I attended last week. It has been prepared by FAO's Fidaa Haddad. There are good possibilities for collaboration, and a lot of useful information has been provided. </div><div><br></div><div>I will also share this with our IYRP ISG Afforestation Sub-group, and take this opportunity to say that the sub-group expects to share a draft outline of a policy brief by 24th August. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">*...*...*...*<div>Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller<div>Co-Chair of International Support Group for the IYRP</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Support the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 <a href="https://www.iyrp.info" target="_blank">https://www.iyrp.info</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Drylands-WGCOFO</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Drylands-WGCOFO@fao.org">Drylands-WGCOFO@fao.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:45 AM<br>Subject: International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 (IYRP) & FAO Working Group on Dryland Forest and Agrosilvopastoral System (COFO WG) potential collaboration<br>To: <a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com">mniafull2@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:isamuels@uwc.ac.za">isamuels@uwc.ac.za</a> <<a href="mailto:isamuels@uwc.ac.za">isamuels@uwc.ac.za</a>><br>Cc: Haddad, Fidaa (NFOD) <<a href="mailto:Fidaa.Haddad@fao.org">Fidaa.Haddad@fao.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:Anders.Malmer@skogsstyrelsen.se">Anders.Malmer@skogsstyrelsen.se</a> <<a href="mailto:anders.malmer@skogsstyrelsen.se">anders.malmer@skogsstyrelsen.se</a>>, VelascoGil, Gregorio (NSAG) <<a href="mailto:Gregorio.VelascoGil@fao.org">Gregorio.VelascoGil@fao.org</a>>, HerreraCalvo, Pedro (NFOD) <<a href="mailto:Pedro.HerreraCalvo@fao.org">Pedro.HerreraCalvo@fao.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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