<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Ann, Thanks a lot for the meeting notes! Yes, rangelands and IPs AT - ies are home for almost more than 90% of biodiversity on the earth. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 30, 2020, at 19:10, Dana Kelly <danammkelly@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks so much Ann, <div>Really appreciate you sending through the key points raised. Great to see the emphasis on livestock, and the mention of women. Also interesting to see the recognition of the importance of IPs as protectors of biodiversity, a good crossover from UNEA-4 where this was emphasised a lot.</div><div>Is the proposed Global Programme on Sustainable Dryland Agriculture likely to give "support" for the idea of an IYRP? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Dana</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i><font size="1">Dana Kelly PhD</font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><i>President of the International Rangelands Congress<br></i></font><div><i><font size="1">Mobile +61 418745889</font></i></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i><font color="#b45f06">International Grassland and Rangeland Congress</font></i><font color="#0000ff"> </font></b></div><div><b><font color="#38761d">Nairobi, Kenya __ </font></b><b><font color="#38761d">October 23-29, 2021 </font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://2020kenya-igc-irc.rangelandcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/06/IRC-IGC.jpg" alt="Joint XXIV IGC and XI IRC 2020" width="96" height="89" data-unique-identifier=""><br></div><div><b><font color="#38761d">Visit the homepage for more information:</font></b><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://2020kenya-igc-irc.rangelandcongress.org/?p=165" target="_blank">http://2020kenya-igc-irc.rangelandcongress.org/?p=165</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 8:04 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Here are some quick notes on the COAG meeting
yesterday about the COAG Subcommittee on Livestock( SC-L):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Almost all
interventions were supportive. However, delegates from Switzerland and the USA
raised some concerns about duplicating other existing groups, e.g. GASL (Global
Agenda on Sustainable Livestock), which was called into being 10 years ago by
COAG. More clarification was requested about how the new committee would
complement existing ones. FAO emphasised that the SC-L would be an
intergovernmental body focusing on policy guidelines, whereas GASL is a
multistakeholder initiative promoting networking. The SC-L should be open to
all COAG members, with civil society and the private sector as observers. Every
organisation with observer status to the FAO can attend the subcommittee
sessions. The SC-L should meet every two years, at least six months before the
biennial COAG meeting. The costs are to be covered by voluntary contributions,
not by the FAO budget. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">It was
encouraging to hear the strong support given for attention to sustainable
livestock systems especially by smallholder family farmers (even pastoralists
and pasturelands were occasionally mentioned specifically, e.g. by Kenya and
Peru). Livestock was repeatedly described as essential for rural development,
and some speakers mentioned specific importance for women.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The wording
of the (draft) final statement included:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">COAG endorsed
the proposal to establish a SC-L as intergovernmental forum with mandate to
discuss and build consensus on livestock issues and priorities and advise COAG,
the FAO Council and the FAO Conference on technical and policy programmes and
activities needed to optimise contribution to poverty alleviation, food
security and nutrition, sustainable livelihoods, and in the realisation of the
2030 Agenda.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The COAG noted
the importance of collaborating with multiple stakeholders, existing
partnerships and specialised organisations, and it may invite GASL to report
regularly to it. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">COAG
recommended that the first session of SC-L be held during the first quarter of
2022, followed by biennial meetings inter-sessional with COAG, subject to
available extra-budgetary funds. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">However, it
did not appear to be clear to the delegates in the COAG meeting, including the
chair, about the further process, e.g. whether the decision of COAG about the
SC-L needed confirmation of the FAO Council or FAO Conference. Depending on how
this is handled, the process of setting up the SC-L and holding the first
meeting may take some time.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><i>NOTE: The final wording of the statement on the SC-L takes place this afternoon!</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Another
point that may be of interest to people working with pastoralists, some of whom
identify themselves as indigenous peoples (IPs): in the COAG discussion on the
food systems approach in preparation for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, the
COAG stressed the importance of IPs as protectors of biodiversity and knowledge
holders in natural resource management, innovations and food systems, and the
need for scientists and stakeholder to follow interculturality in their
understanding of indigenous food systems, The Committee welcomed the launching
of the Global Hub on IPs’ Food Systems to provide a structured dialogue that
enables an exchange of knowledge between IPs and scientists to ensure the
protection and preservation of Indigenous food systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Also right
now in the discussion of the proposed Global Programme on Sustainable Dryland
Agriculture, the spokeswoman for the EU called for recognising the “nomads” who
produce food in dryland areas as part of sustainable dryland agriculture.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cheers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Ann<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;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"><i>Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;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"><i>Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;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"><i>Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;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"><i>E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" target="_blank">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" target="_blank">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a></i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;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"><i>S: ann-waters</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;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"><i>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></i></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></div></div><br><br>
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