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

Thu Oct 22 18:03:41 MST 2020

Dear Francesca,
yes, absolutely fascinating history! So important to look into the
difference between countries! I am totally intrigued!

Warm regards,
Ilse

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 03:09, Francesca Pasetti <fpasettib at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> 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
>>
>>
>> Engin Yılmaz
>> Yolda Initiative
>> T +90 549 860 27 66
>> www.yolda.org.tr | engin at bican.net | engin at yolda.org.tr
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