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

[Ykhanbai Hijaba]

Dear Ann,

Thank you very much for the introduction on : "Pastoralists as Family
Farmers"  to  the United Nations  Family Farmers Decade in 2019-2028. Its
good that Pastoralisic  are mentioned as Specific group, and we hope with
the approval of IYRP we will more interconnected on this Decade. I will
come with my comments in due date.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 3:40 AM Ann Waters-Bayer <waters-bayer at web.de>
wrote:

> 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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