<div dir="ltr">Thank You Fiona. <div><br></div><div>Jonathan Davies, the WG coordinator will be at the GCG meeting, so we can definitely discuss this. </div><div><br></div><div>From my side in conjunction with Mounir Louhaichi and others, we are putting together an overview of rangelands in Africa paper (no mapping component), but could still assist in this endeavour.</div><div><br></div><div>I will add your suggestion to the GCG agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Igshaan </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:29 AM Flintan, Fiona (ILRI) <<a href="mailto:F.Flintan@cgiar.org">F.Flintan@cgiar.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5841123037569767371">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to propose a new working group and that is one on developing a new rangelands basemap – the idea is to end up with a map of different categories of rangelands types with types defined based on ecology, land use and cultural
identities. Not quite sure yet how we will get there, but probably have to work on a country level with country-level (or regional) teams categorizing the different types of rangelands and approximate distributions of these across a country/region.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps this can be discussed in the GCG meeting. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Lead CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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ready for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026! <a href="https://www.iyrp.info/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(11,76,180)">https://www.iyrp.info</span></a></span></i><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Iyrp-gcg <<a href="mailto:iyrp-gcg-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank">iyrp-gcg-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>> on behalf of Igshaan Samuels <<a href="mailto:isamuels@uwc.ac.za" target="_blank">isamuels@uwc.ac.za</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 00:59<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:iyrp-gcg@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank">iyrp-gcg@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:iyrp-gcg@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank">iyrp-gcg@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Igshaan Samuels <<a href="mailto:igshaansamuels@gmail.com" target="_blank">igshaansamuels@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Iyrp-gcg] Poll for IYRP GCG meeting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could you kindly respond to this Doodle Poll where we intend to determine the most suitable date for our first GCG meeting for 2024?<u></u><u></u></p>
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