<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Ann<div><br></div><div>Very well written! I've added a few thoughts here and there - see attached. </div><div><br></div><div>It is too long, but I don't think we should shorten it. This is the first time we are making the case to the IDFF and it needs to be substantive. But we can add a half page "summary" or "abstract" at the beginning. In this, we would distill the main message from each of the 5 sections into 1-2 sentences each. </div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Advisor on Sustainability</div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 5:40 PM Ann Waters-Bayer <<a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de">waters-bayer@web.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">














<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Dear IYRP Support Group members,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">In late March in Spain, the World Rural
Forum (WRF) is holding an international conference on family farming during
which the agenda for the United Nations </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Decade of Family Farming
(2019–28) for the national, regional and global levels will be developed. At
the moment, the IYRP Support Group (ISG) has an observer’s seat in the
WRF-hosted World Coordinating Committee (WCC) for the Decade. I will be
attending the conference and the WCC meeting as “observer”. For the participants
in this conference, the ISG member organisation </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">CELEP
(Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism) is
collaborating with the International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative (ILC-RI) in preparing a brief paper on "Pastoralists as family farmers".<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">We are assuming that the main
audience/readership will be people wanting to promote the Decade of Family
Farming who have included the word “pastoralists” in their definition of family
farmers but have not thought about what this means – what are the specificities
and major concerns of pastoralists as family farmers. This is what we want to
explain.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Here
is a first draft of the paper, which has already been shared with a group of
about ten people in ILC-RI and with the seven other members of the CELEP
core-group (of which I am also a member) for their comments.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Actually,
the paper is longer than what I had originally hoped it would be for the
purpose of sharing at the upcoming conference. I would therefore appreciate if
you could indicate which parts of the paper could be left out – even though </span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt">we might like to include (some of) them in a longer
position paper planned by ILC-RI. Additions that you suggest would probably find their way into the longer paper rather than into this brief.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Please
send any comments you may have <b><i>by 28 February</i></b>,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> so that I can incorporate the revisions and get
the paper printed by CELEP before the conference. We hope also to be able
to make a French translation.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Ann</span> <div><br></div><div></div></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div></div><div>   <br><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1">Ann Waters-Bayer</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1">Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1">Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern Pastoralism (CELEP)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1">E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" target="_blank">waters-bayer@web.de</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1">S: ann-waters</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1">W: <a href="http://www.agrecol.de" target="_blank">www.agrecol.de</a> / <a href="http://www.celep.info" target="_blank">www.celep.info</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><br class="gmail-m_-5068810231700118315Apple-interchange-newline">
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