[IYRP General List] IRC in collaboration with IYRP: Rangelands & pastoralists: people & institutions - a glossary of terms

[Ann Waters-Bayer]

Dear all,

The International Rangeland Congress (IRC) has collaborated with members of the Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) to bring out "Rangelands and pastoralists: people and institutions – a glossary of terms" to provide guidance for understanding socio-institutional terms commonly used when talking and writing about rangelands and pastoralists. This glossary can be used as a reference in preparation for the IYRP proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly to be celebrated in 2026.

Pastoralists gain their livelihoods within very complex systems of resource tenure and use. It is of utmost importance that their rights of access to the natural resources needed for raising livestock be understood worldwide. This is why this glossary gives particular attention to issues of resource tenure and rights. All pastoralists depend on their relationships with non-pastoralists, e.g. to trade or market their products, to gain access to seasonal grazing and water in crop-farming areas, to negotiate resource use with other rangeland users and to negotiate regulations that affect their livelihoods. The glossary tries to shed light on these social relationships. 

This is Version 1 of the glossary, being brought out now, more than a year before the IYRP2026 commences, in the hopes that – in the run-up to the Year – this will stimulate reflection and discussion about the use of these terms and thus generate even better understanding. Readers are invited to comment on the definitions in this glossary; contact the Glossary Team (glossary.iyrp2026 at gmail.com <mailto:glossary.iyrp2026 at gmail.com>). Version 2 will be published in January 2026, the first month of the IYRP, focussed on the theme “What are rangelands? Who are pastoralists?”. 

Cheers,

Ann

PS: The glossary can also be found on the IYRP website: https://www.iyrp.info/sites/iyrp.org/files/Glossary_pastoralism%20%2B%20rangelands_people%20%2B%20institutions%202024.pdf <https://www.iyrp.info/sites/iyrp.org/files/Glossary_pastoralism%20+%20rangelands_people%20+%20institutions%202024.pdf> 


 

 

Dr Ann Waters-Bayer
Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology
German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow
Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group
Secretariat of International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) Global Alliance
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