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<a name="1"></a><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ilrinews/~3/Rx89BAzEXP4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email"><span style="mso-bookmark:1"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#000099;text-decoration:none">Momentum
builds at UNEA for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:1"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#555555">Posted:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>29 Mar 2019 12:10 AM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) worked with a host of private and public organizations advocating for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists at the fourth biennial
United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held 11-15 March in Nairobi this year. The assembly focused on innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Shirley Tarawali, ILRI assistant director general, moderated a talk on sustainable pastoralism at a ministerial breakfast meeting to support the adoption of an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
(IYRP). The meeting was organized by the ILRI-coordinated global component of the International Land Coalition (ILC) Rangelands Initiative and the International Support Group of the IYRP. Speaking at the event were a number of policymakers and ministers from
countries as diverse as Sudan, Mongolia and Kenya, as well as leading pastoralist scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><img border="0" width="303" height="265" style="width:3.1527in;height:2.7569in" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4894/40444998313_9f069d31e3_z.jpg" alt="Aboud Gabir Saeed, Sudan state minister and general secretary of the National Council for Environment (left), speaking at the ministerial breakfast"><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Shirley Tarawali, ILRI assistant director general (left), and Aboud Gabir Saeed, Sudan state minister and general secretary of the National Council for Environment, speaking
at the ministerial breakfast (photo credit: ILRI/Sarah Kasyoka).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The meeting highlighted several key messages:<br>
• the global significance of rangelands and pastoralists, and their contribution to sustainable development;<br>
• the importance of an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) for Mongolia and other countries where pastoralism is key;<br>
• the significant gaps in data on rangelands and pastoralism that remain—and the importance of filling these;<br>
• the need for governments and the United Nations to address the challenges facing rangelands and pastoralists including gaps in data, and the importance of drawing attention to these.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dana Kelly, president of the International Rangelands Continuing Committee, provided an overview of the importance of pastoralism, an issue she said rarely receives the attention from policymakers that
it deserves. ‘Rangelands are great for diversity,’ she said. ‘Up to 500 million people are pastoralists, and they occupy as much as 75% of the earth’s land surface’. Pastoralists are natural stewards of the environment, she said, since they rely on low external
inputs and provide a variety of sustainable ecosystem services. Yet, she said, they remain ‘among the most marginalized and disadvantaged of peoples’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Among the other speakers at the meeting were His Excellency Tserenbat Namsrai, minister of Environment and Tourism for Mongolia; Enkh-Amgalan, member of the advisory board of the Mongolian Federation
of Pasture User Groups of Herders; His Excellency Aboud Gabir Saeed, state minister, National Council for Environment for Sudan; and Adelkader Bensada, a programme management officer at the UN Environment and a member of the International Support Group of
the IYRP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Tserenbat Namsrai, Mongolia’s Environment and Tourism minister at the ministerial breakfast meeting 12 March 2019 at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi (photo credit:
ILC/Israel Nyoh).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Mongolia has been on the forefront in making the case for an IYRP and at this meeting, minister Namsrai emphasized the importance of pastoralists and rangelands to both the national economy and to the
environment and ecosystem services of Mongolia. He also reiterated his government’s commitment and support towards the protection of rangelands and environmental sustainability. ‘The government is about to submit to the parliament the Rangeland Law, the main
objective of which is to ensure legal entitlement of herder communities to their traditional rangelands and empower their role as users and protectors of their rangelands,’ he said. The minister also reminded participants about the recent UN resolution seeking
the declaration 2021 to 2030 as the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, urging all stakeholders to take advantage of this momentum to advance the IYRP agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:maroon">Resolution on innovations in sustainable rangelands and pastoralism adopted at the fourth session of UNEA</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://papersmart.unon.org/resolution/uploads/k1900781.pdf#overlay-context=node/233" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">resolution
on innovations in sustainable rangelands and pastoralism</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was among<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/ministerial-declaration-resolutions-and-decisions-unea-4" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">several
resolutions and decisions</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which were adopted by the Committee of the Whole of the United Nations Environment Assembly at its fourth session. Submitted by the African Group, the resolution recognizes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">‘the critical role that sustainable rangelands and pastoralism plays in addressing environmental challenges, maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services as well as other natural resources and contributing
to food security, sustainable tourism and socio-economic development, particularly to indigenous peoples, and local communities.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The resolution further –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">‘Urges Member States and invites all relevant stakeholders to raise awareness and promote innovative solutions for sustainable management of rangelands and pastoralism taking into account traditional
knowledge on sectors such as agro-pastoralism, livestock, agroforestry, agriculture, renewable energy and ecotourism’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">This resolution, endorsed by members of UNEA and passed on 15 March, was presented at the breakfast meeting by Ernest Mbogo, deputy director, Livestock Production-State Department of Livestock at the
Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya. The passing of this resolution is a critical milestone in increasing recognition of the importance of rangelands and pastoralism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:maroon">Gap analysis report on rangelands and pastoralism</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Several of the policymakers and scholars at the meeting emphasized the lack of adequate data and highlighted the crucial need for a gap analysis to address this challenge. One participant noted, for
example, that there hadn’t been an adequate census of animals and livestock keepers in Nigeria for 30 years. Musonda Mumba, chief of Terrestrial Ecosystem Unit, UN Environment presented a report on a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/case-benign-neglect-knowledge-gaps-about-sustainability-pastoralism-and-rangelands" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">gap
analysis report on rangelands</span></b></a>that carried out integrated analyses in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report also addresses one of the resolutions approved at UNEA in May 2016, which highlighted the scarcity of information
on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dev.grida.no/gap/GAP_report_screen.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">pastoralism and rangelands</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The gap analysis focused on such issues as the accessibility and availability of data on pastoralism and rangelands and the types of technical support for pastoralism provided by various organizations
and governments. The report confirms that there are significant gaps in knowledge and data on rangelands globally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><img border="0" width="640" height="359" style="width:6.6666in;height:3.743in" id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7809/40444998523_99225dacc5_z.jpg" alt="Musonda Mumda, chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit at UN Environment"><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Musonda Mumda, chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit at UN Environment, presents a gap analysis report on rangelands (photo credit: ILRI/Sarah Kasyoka).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">There was also a broad consensus on the importance of drawing on local knowledge and using existing resources and social practices to formulate pragmatic solutions to ongoing environmental and economic
challenges. As Tarawali noted, the goal is not to treat pastoralism as a problem to be solved, but as an important part of the solution to the world’s growing environmental and nutritional challenges. Speaking from the audience, Iain Wright, deputy director
general of ILRI, said he was gratified by the UN’s attention to the issue: ‘Despite the many problems that remain, we are finally really pushing for a pastoral agenda. I’m more optimistic than I have been in 25 years of working on this issue. There is a groundswell
of support for pastoralism, and I’m happy to be part of it.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:maroon">ILRI’s engagement and key messages</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The ILRI delegation to the fourth UNEA also took the opportunity to share the significance of livestock in sustainable agriculture and food security. Polly Ericksen who leads the Sustainable Livestock
Systems program at ILRI, participated in a panel discussion on ‘Legal empowerment in environmental decision-making for sustainable consumption and production’. Ericksen highlighted the need for customary institutions, which some pastoral communities rely on
to manage rangelands, to be given formal legal recognition to empower communities to assert authority in case of disputes over access to grazing resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><img border="0" width="640" height="263" style="width:6.6666in;height:2.743in" id="_x0000_i1029" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7852/46569904575_c4f481d053_z.jpg" alt="Polly Ericksen speaking in a session at the fourth biennial United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held 11-15 March in Nairobi"><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text" style="line-height:13.65pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Polly Ericksen, Sustainable Livestock Systems program leader at ILRI (second left), in a panel discussion at UNEA4 (photo credit: ILRI/Sarah Kasyoka).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Speaking in a separate session on, ‘Sustainable food systems: ensuring food security for future generations’, she also emphasized the criticality of livestock in the food, nutritional and income security
of rural households, while citing the significant impact of the dairy sector on greenhouse gas emissions and the need to mitigate this impact through sustainable production systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Learn more about the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://globalrangelands.org/international-year-rangelands-and-pastoralists-initiative" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">International
Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists</span></b></a>. Also read<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/viewpoint/a-month-a-year-and-a-decade-in-support-of-sustainable-rangelands-and-pastoralism/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">an
article</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on recent global developments in support of rangelands and pastoralism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">For additional information visit</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.rangelandsinitiative.org/"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">www.rangelandsinitiative.org</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">or
contact: </span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>Fiona Flintan | senior scientist–Rangelands Governance and coordinator of ILC Rangelands Initiative-Global Component, ILRI. Email: F.Flintan[at]<a href="http://cgiar.org/"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">cgiar.org</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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