[IYRPsupportgroup] Information about IYRP for pastoralist organisations - call for testimonials

[Ann Waters-Bayer]

Indeed, Pablo, the team in the ISG working on the new IYRP website is already trying to arrange short testimonials video clips from different regions in the world to bring the voices of rangeland users and other stakeholders to the FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG) participants in our “online booth” (website) for the COAG - 60-90 seconds (in any case, less than 2 min) conveying the speaker’s views and feelings regarding the importance of rangelands and/or livestock and/or pastoral life and culture – and ideally also mentioning why it would be important to have an IYRP. The clip can be taken with a video camera or a good-quality smartphone. We are asking people to post the clip on YouTube and send the link to us, so that our website team can put it into the respective regional pages on the website.

We already have such testimonials coming in from different regions, but we don’t have anything yet from Central & South America. We also have no testimonials thus far from North Africa & the Middle East, although we hope some will come in this week. We have to get all the materials for the website together by 12 Sept, so in one week’s time. We want to have the “online booth” up and running one week before the COAG meeting starts on 28 Sept, and the webmaster needs some time to make it ready.

A complication is that we would need English subtitles if the speaker does not speak in English. I have been told that there is a programme for subtitling in YouTube but I have not tried it. If we cannot get non-English testimonials with subtitles, we will simply have to put them on the website as they are and hope that at least the COAG country reps from that region can understand them.

If anyone in the ISG can arrange testimonials from these regions - or others - then please do so. You can refer to the attached call that Dana made in Australia for ideas about what should be in it. Of course, Dana has pitched her call to Australians, but the principles will be the same in other regions.

On each regional page, we will probably feature only two testimonials but we will make a link to still more testimonials from the region.

Cheers,
Ann



> On 4 Sep 2020, at 14:39 PM, Pablo Manzano Baena <pablo.manzano.baena at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I like the idea of the video testimony very much too. And it should be easy to get thanks to the widespread smartphone use.
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> El vie., 4 sept. 2020 a las 12:44, Jurgen Hoth (<jurgenhoth1521 at gmail.com <mailto:jurgenhoth1521 at gmail.com>>) escribió:
> Dear Maryam,
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> Many thanks for your always wise advise.
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> Quick question. Is this the definition you have in mind for Rangelands:
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> “Land on which the indigenous vegetation (climax or natural potential) is predominately grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or shrubs and is managed as a natural ecosystem. If plants are introduced, they are managed similarly. Rangelands include natural grasslands, savannas, shrublands, many deserts, tundra, alpine communities, marshes, and wet meadows (SRM 1999).”
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> I think making the video and testimony you suggested would make a great contribution towards our common effort.
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> Best,
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> Jürgen
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> From: IYRPsupportgroup <iyrpsupportgroup-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu <mailto:iyrpsupportgroup-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu>> on behalf of Maryam Niamir Fuller <mniafull2 at gmail.com <mailto:mniafull2 at gmail.com>>
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 3:33 PM
> To: Ilse Köhler-Rollefson <ilse.koehlerroll at googlemail.com <mailto:ilse.koehlerroll at googlemail.com>>
> Cc: "iyrpsupportgroup at list.cals.arizona.edu <mailto:iyrpsupportgroup at list.cals.arizona.edu>" <iyrpsupportgroup at list.cals.arizona.edu <mailto:iyrpsupportgroup at list.cals.arizona.edu>>
> Subject: Re: [IYRPsupportgroup] Information about IYRP for pastoralist organisations - call for letters of support/commitment & visual materials for website
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> Hi Ilse
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> Good comments. But in our discussions in the past, we made a deliberate choice to be inclusive in our definition for the purpose of the IYRP. The IYRP is a global worldwide initiative for all people whose livelihood depends on rangelands. (Note that the definition of "rangeland" comes from the International Rangeland Congress). For example, the folks herding reindeers do consider themselves as pastoralists (and these are semi-wild animals); also the southern african pastoralists who also have (and manage) wild ruminants in their domain. 
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> Perhaps at some point in the future we can try to get an academic consensus on who is a ‘pastoralist’ , but for now it is important that we maintain an inclusive and extensive definition in order for the IYRP  to be meaningful and useful to all. 
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> Would folks agree if we were to make a short video of testimony from as many pastoralists from around the world - all they have to say is "hello, my name is xxxx. I'm a pastoralist/rancher/herder (etc) from xxxx and I support the IYRP. "
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