[IYRPsupportgroup] [pastoralist-hub] A wonderful video from Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza

Thu Oct 22 14:37:48 MST 2020

Dear Fiona,
Thank you for your suggestion concerning doing something similar in Rome,
as it has been done in Madrid since 1990: transhumance passing through the
capital using traditional droves.

Thank you Pablo, for your clarification: in fact Nicola di Niro and myself
are working on transhumance in Italy, and the recuperation of italian
droves (italian name: tratturi).

As you suppose, Fiona, through Rome there is an ancient drove, which was
bringing trashuming sheep from Vatican city to the Abruzzo mountains. This
drove was passing in a part of Rome actually called EUR.
At that time the Region that today is called Abbruzzo, was belonging to the
Vatican State (Which included the regions today called Abbruzzo and Lazio).

Three years ago it was tried to realise again this transhumance passing
through the EUR, in Rome, but it has not been possible because the
shepherds did not agree with the conditions they were offered to realise
it.
For this year 2020 it was foreseen to pass with transhuming sheep on the
ancient transhumance drove which passes through the city of Foggia, but
because of the actual COVID situation, it could not be realized.
Foggia was in ancient times the most important drove centre, a transhuming
crossroad, of South Italy. In fact in Foggia there is actually the most
important italian library with documents concerning transhumance,
traditional animal breeding, and ancient legislation about droves.
Therefore it is important also to allow again transhuming animals to use
these droves crossing Foggia.

There is a great difference between the possibility to organise a
trashumance passing through a city in Spain and in Italy: Spain already has
a very ancient (created in 1273, and renewed/actualised in 1995) current
law protecting its 125.000 km of doves. Italy has not.
Like in Spain, also in Italy droves are used by transhuming animals since
prehistory (Therefore in both countries you have many megalithic stones of
the prehistoric shepherds).
In Italy the first registered protection of droves was a law of Theodosio,
in the year 400. Shepherds and their flocks were protected up to Napoleon,
who in 1806 made a law privileging farmers, and up to today, there has
never again been realised any law protecting shepherds. From then onwards
in Italy transhumance began to reduce drastically everywhere.

Therefore to pass with transhuming animals through villages and cities in
Spain is actually almost easy, in Italy it is very difficult to organise.
Actually the still few transhuming shepherds in Italy have it each year
more difficult to realise their transhumance, which has been done for
centuries.

The nomination of Transhumance as UNESCO World Heritage last december 2019,
and now the IYRP are both very important also for Italian shepherds:
Worldwide the protection of shepherds rights, as well as the acknowledgment
of policy makers (and general population) about the importance of
pastoralism is of vital importance.

We were already thinking to suggest again Rome for a transhuming flock
passing through the city the next years: with the support of the
organisation of IYRP and FAO, it will be certainly easier to realise it for
2021

Warm regards
Francesca

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Francesca Pasetti Bombardella PhD
ASviR-MoliGal - Italia
Tel: 0039 380 6337 111
Tel: 0049-1520 840 4438
Email: fpasettib at gmail.com

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De: Pablo Manzano Baena <pablo.manzano.baena at gmail.com>
Date: mar., 20 oct. 2020 a las 10:00
Subject: Re: [IYRPsupportgroup] [pastoralist-hub] A wonderful video from
Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza
To: Flintan, Fiona (ILRI) <F.Flintan at cgiar.org>
Cc: iyrpsupportgroup at list.cals.arizona.edu <
iyrpsupportgroup at list.cals.arizona.edu>, Ganbayar G <rome2 at mfa.gov.mn>,
Francesca Pasetti Bombardella <fpasettib at gmail.com>, Nicola Di Niro <
nicoldin29 at gmail.com>

Hi Fiona.
Regarding mobile pastoralism in Italy, there are people actually working on
that.  I think Francesca Pasetti is in the group but I CC her just in case
- she works with Nicola di Niro (CC'd also) in recovering Italian tratturi.

El mar., 20 oct. 2020 a las 9:30, Flintan, Fiona (ILRI) (<
F.Flintan at cgiar.org>) escribió:

> *Gregorio and Mr Ganbayar - we should organise the same kind of event
> (droving of sheep through the city - for sure there are some ancient routes
> to follow) in Rome for IYRP!!*
>
>
> *To:* Forum of the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub <pastoralist-hub at dgroups.org>
> *Subject:* [pastoralist-hub] A wonderful video from Asociación
> Trashumancia y Naturaleza
>
> A wonderful video from Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygf3u3HCzE
>
> "Transhumance is a fundamental tool in land management and soil recovery;
> improvement of natural resources; water management; forest fire prevention
> and also in creating employment in rural areas. We must continue to work to
> make the authorities fully aware of the importance of its role in
> retro-innovation as a measure to combat the economic and climate crises…”
>
> In honor of all Transhumance Festivals that TyN has been organizing for 27
> years in Madrid, this past weekend they have presented a short
> video-documentary "Transhumance: walking and sowing for a sustainable
> future" (with English subtitles)
>
> Full programme and more more amazing videos and photos during this week on
> Twitter https://twitter.com/Trashumanc.../status/1318101429349982208
>
> In case you want to join the online activities on 24 and 25 October
> (workshops on cooking, wool...) (and practice your Spanish) just use the
> link to youtube channel https://bit.ly/356ky1x
>
>
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