[IYRPsupportgroup] IYRP: Word Clouds for "Rangelands" and "Pastoralist" - May 2021

[Ann Waters-Bayer]

Dear IYRP ISG members,

Here are two Word Clouds that show how many different names there are for "rangelands" and "pastoralist" around the world (in English, more or less). We hope that this will help to harmonise how we communicate and what we mean when we use these two words in our efforts to raise awareness for the IYRP.  We expect countries and people to continue using the words they feel most comfortable with and, through these two images, to be able to communicate with others effectively. 

The words included in the Clouds were suggested by 74 people responding to an online survey distributed to the ISG and RISGs. The top three Search Engines chosen were: Google (46%), Bing (18%) and Yahoo (7%). Only Google was searched in preparation of these graphics, as it is not possible to combine results electronically from different search engines. Some words suggested by respondents were not included either because they did not get any hits on Google or because they got too few to appear on the image. The size of each word reflects how commonly the word is used in information contained in Google as of May 2021. The search was done only in the English language. 

We thank Barbara Hutchinson, Sheila Merrigan and Maria del Carme Aranguren from the University of Arizona for helping to prepare these images. 

We encourage the RISGs to prepare similar Word Clouds in other languages and to share them with us for the website. 

By 2026, these Word Clouds may look somewhat different - that will make for an interesting comparison.

All the best,

Maryam and Ann



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