[IYRPsupportgroup] Fwd: [pastoralist-hub] shepherding schools - should be part of theme for IYRP

[Maryam Niamir-Fuller]

Quite agree Ann. Indeed, in my mind "vocational training" means training
pastoralists in the arts and science of herding, shepherding, and animal
husbandry including in traditional knowledge.

Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller
Advisor on Sustainability


On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 6:47 AM Ann Waters-Bayer <waters-bayer at web.de>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> There is an interesting discussion (and collection of information) going
> on right now in the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub about learning to be a
> pastoralist/shepherd. This is an aspect that should be included in the
> proposed March theme for the IYRP, in which “vocational training” is
> mentioned but I don’t think the primary idea was training in the vocation
> of pastoralism. Such training should be made specific in this proposed
> theme.
>
> I hope everyone has the “12 possible themes for a proposed IYRP” to which
> I am referring.
>
> Cheers,
> Ann
>
> *From: *"fernandogd at inland.org" <fernandogd at inland.org>
> *Subject: **[pastoralist-hub] shepherding schools*
> *Date: *28 October 2019 at 10:39:14 AM CET
> *To: *"Forum of the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub" <
> pastoralist-hub at dgroups.org>
> *Reply-To: *"Forum of the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub" <
> pastoralist-hub at dgroups.org>
>
> Dear Mounir,
>
> The reason is that in Europe we are teaching young people from cities , or
> non -pastoralist brackground mainly , to become shepherds, due to the old
> age of the few remaining pastoralists. Its a question of how it is
> culturally perceived, in the cities nowadays and in the rural communities.
> In other places the emphasis at schools might be to offer education for
> the young members of pastoralist families to learn new techniques and
> perspectives for their profession.
> But becareful, there might be wrong assumptions about what is to be " a
> good professional" in pastoralism, for some still associated with
> intensification, high technification with high capital investment ,
>  introduction of high yield non-local breeds etc.  We have seen in Europe
> that is not the way for pastoralism, it won´t compete with industrial
> livestock systems, instead we focus on an agroecological perspective for
> training future pastoralists, based on the local conditions and breeds,
>  small quality productions of added value and recognition of environmental
> custody role etc.
> All the best and thanks for your interest
> F
>
> ------
> Fernando García Dory
> Regional Coordinator -  World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples -WAMIP
> European Shepherds Network Secretariat
> Shepherd´s School of Picos de Europa &  Madrid ( Spain)
> www.escueladepastores.es
> tels. + 34 675 964 867 / 985 92 24 89 / 91 523 47 84
>
>
> On 28 Oct 2019, at 09:27, Mounir Louhaichi <M.Louhaichi at cgiar.org> wrote:
>
> Many thanks to all colleagues who responded to my query about shepherding
> schools.
> It is clear there is always interest in this “discipline”. However, what
> is amazing is that there is a shift from what one would expect that such
> schools would be predominant in the middle east and Africa.
> However, many western countries are actually interested in establishing
> schools across Europe.
>
> Have a nice day.
> Mounir Louhaichi
> ICARDA
>
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