<div dir="ltr">Francesca;<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry Irving</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM Francesca Pasetti <<a href="mailto:fpasettib@gmail.com">fpasettib@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear IYRP GCG<br>First of all I would like to wish you a Happy New Year and hope that you and your loved ones are doing well.<br><br>During my recent Christmas holidays I was in Munich (Germany) with all my children and grandchildren and visited the "<a href="https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum/press/press-kit/press-releases/who-we-are" target="_blank"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>Deutsches Museum</a>", which as you know is one of the largest and most visited scientific museums in Germany.<br><br>There was a room with scientific recent university research on legumes to replace meat.<br>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.</div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div>My proposal is this:</div><div><br>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.<br>In Vienna, I think some of you may have visited the excellent Camels exhibition that the World Museum is hosting throughout 2024.</div><div><br>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.</div><div>What do you think?</div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kind regards</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Francesca</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>Francesca Pasetti Bombardella </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">Co-chair Regional <a href="https://iyrp.info/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">IYRP </a> Support Group Europe </span></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">Focal Point Spain Nomination </span><span style="font-size:x-small">Transhumance UNESCO ICH</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">International Projects Coordinator Fundación Trashumancia y Naturaleza - Spain</span><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">Coordinator Programma TRE Terre Rurali d'Europa<span style="font-size:small"> - </span>Spain</font></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="1"><font face="Helvetica">S</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ecretary of the Transhumance and Transition UNESCO Club</span></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Facilitator of the ERASMUS + “Eco-</span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">TransH</span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">” project</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#000000">Email: <a href="mailto:fpasettib@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">fpasettib@gmail.co</a>m</font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><img width="96" height="62" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zT-u0jJahxOsWmlS4o_mFQso71Va5XVvO1cvmJlZlfOZuEP_e2_6Hy-0c3ym-ZEkCDZr6u9Ml2NxjX"><font size="1" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div></div><div><img></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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