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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please fill out this important brief survey at your convenience. Thank you, Barb</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Flintan, Fiona (ILRI) <<a href="mailto:F.Flintan@cgiar.org">F.Flintan@cgiar.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pastoralist-Hub <<a href="mailto:Pastoralist-Hub@fao.org">Pastoralist-Hub@fao.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Miguel Basarte Mena <<a href="mailto:mbasarte@gmv.com">mbasarte@gmv.com</a>>; Carlos Doménech García <<a href="mailto:cdomenech@gmv.com">cdomenech@gmv.com</a>>; Fiona Flintan <<a href="mailto:fionaflintan@yahoo.co.uk">fionaflintan@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Short survey to help design a new global Rangelands Data Platform</span>
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<p class="xmsonormal"> Dear potential global rangelands data platform user!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">Significant data gaps have been identified in rangelands (UNEP 2019). In an attempt to fill some of these gaps
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐈𝐋𝐑𝐈</span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white"> (</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">supported
by </span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐆𝐌𝐕</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white"> and global and national partners</span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">
</span><span style="color:black">including WB, IFAD, FAO, ICARDA, WWF, IUCN, ILC Rangelands Initiative and international and local NGO and pastoralist networks and groups)
</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">was awarded the CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge 2020 to establish a
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐰𝐞𝐛</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">-</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white"> consolidating and generating data and maps for use by a wide set of stakeholders
including scientists, </span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">researchers, analysts, mappers,
</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt;background:white">governments, development agencies, conservationists, investors, pastoralists and other land users. It is anticipated that this global Rangelands Data Platform will serve as the “go-to”
information source on rangelands.</span><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.25pt">
<span style="background:white">To help us to develop the most useful data platform, we request you, as a potential user of this platform to answer a short 14-question survey on what you would like from such a platform and any suggestions that you may have.
If you choose there are some additional technical questions that you can answer after this, but these are entirely optional. Please go here to access the survey:
</span></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/forms.gle/yrahJ5XGqR82QueP7__;!!MvyJQugb!QGnrRbzvZ6OhhY2zgvulAIQdEAyy_6w-2T1TV6LSTO1hC4N5NzHEyIZU6szcaA$" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">https://forms.gle/yrahJ5XGqR82QueP7</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Please share with your colleagues and other potential users as we want as many people who might use such a platform to fill it out the survey, so that we can design the platform in the best way and to your preferences. The survey is
<i>not </i>limited to one person per organization. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">The survey will close at the end of October, and we will share the results of the survey through pastoralist/rangeland-related networks and platforms by end of November, but if you do not receive and would like a copy, then please get
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<p class="xmsonormal">We very much appreciate your time and input to this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Fiona (ILRI), Carlos (GMV), Miguel (GMV)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">Fiona Flintan </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Senior Scientist-Rangelands and Pastoralism, ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) (hosted at IFAD Rome)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Italy and WhatsApp/Telegram: +39-3496462017 Ethiopia: +251-921777402; </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">Skype: fiona.flintan </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Twitter: @rangelands_glbl</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">Instagram: @rangelands_glbl</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">Support the call for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists!
<a href="https://www.iyrp.info">https://www.iyrp.info</a></span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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