[IYRPsupportgroup] Draft brief on "Pastoralists as family farmers" for comment

[Ann Waters-Bayer]

Dear IYRP Support Group members,

In late March in Spain, the World Rural Forum (WRF) is holding an international conference on family farming during which the agenda for the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–28) for the national, regional and global levels will be developed. At the moment, the IYRP Support Group (ISG) has an observer’s seat in the WRF-hosted World Coordinating Committee (WCC) for the Decade. I will be attending the conference and the WCC meeting as “observer”. For the participants in this conference, the ISG member organisation CELEP (Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism) is collaborating with the International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative (ILC-RI) in preparing a brief paper on "Pastoralists as family farmers".

We are assuming that the main audience/readership will be people wanting to promote the Decade of Family Farming who have included the word “pastoralists” in their definition of family farmers but have not thought about what this means – what are the specificities and major concerns of pastoralists as family farmers. This is what we want to explain.

Here is a first draft of the paper, which has already been shared with a group of about ten people in ILC-RI and with the seven other members of the CELEP core-group (of which I am also a member) for their comments.

Actually, the paper is longer than what I had originally hoped it would be for the purpose of sharing at the upcoming conference. I would therefore appreciate if you could indicate which parts of the paper could be left out – even though we might like to include (some of) them in a longer position paper planned by ILC-RI. Additions that you suggest would probably find their way into the longer paper rather than into this brief.

Please send any comments you may have by 28 February, so that I can incorporate the revisions and get the paper printed by CELEP before the conference. We hope also to be able to make a French translation.

Cheers,

Ann 


   
Ann Waters-Bayer
Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology
Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern Pastoralism (CELEP)
E: waters-bayer at web.de
S: ann-waters
W: www.agrecol.de / www.celep.info



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