[Risgchairs] update on RISG activities

Fri Mar 17 09:21:43 MST 2023

Dear Igshaan,

You can find herewith a short report on our activities from Western and 
Central Africa.

In addition, we would like to let you know that we intend to commit in the 
organisation/planning of the Traditional Knowledge Forum to be held in 2025 
in Australia.

Best wishes,

Harouna & Serena

De : Risgchairs <risgchairs-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu> De la part de 
SEVA
Envoyé : Saturday, 11 March 2023 7:26 am
À : ceciturin at gmail.com
Cc : risgchairs at list.cals.arizona.edu
Objet : [Message Suspect] [Message Suspect] Re: [Risgchairs] update on RISG 
activities

Dear Igshaan,

Please find attached our brief progress report for South Asia. Hope we will 
upload it in our web page-South Asia.

Regards

Vivekanandan

On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 11:36 PM <ceciturin at gmail.com 
<mailto:ceciturin at gmail.com> > wrote:

Dear Igshaan,

Hope this email finds you well. Thanks for sharing your meeting notes.

>From RISG South America please receive our apologies for not participating 
in the last GCG meeting.  We will improve our participation for future 
meetings.

Appreciate if you can share the link to the meeting recording.

Regarding the required information, please find our answers below in red.

*  A brief update on IYRP related activities from Nov 2022 to the end of Feb 
2023. We would like to populate an update for the IYRP ISG.

*	Fieldwork in the Peruvian Southern Andes were carried out from November 26 
to December 16 2022 by Greta Semplici (PASTRES postdoc) and Cecilia Turin as 
part of the small research “Rangelands and Pastoralists of Latin America” 
proposed in collaboration of Pablo Manzano. Alpaca and llama pastoralists 
contacted during fieldwork were informed about IYRP 2026 and short videos 
were recorded in Aymara and Spanish.
*	First RISG SA coordination meeting (virtual) was realized in December 28 
2022. It allowed to identify who continue interested in participating and 
supporting IYRP 2026.
*	The research proposal “Documentation of indigenous pastoralist knowledge 
and practices for the sustainable management of high Andean rangelands and 
bofedales (Andean wetlands)” was submitted on January 30 2023 by Cecilia 
Turin to the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme - British Museum. Right 
now under assessment.
*	A meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru was carried out in 
January 31 2023 to increase awareness on country rangelands and pastoralists 
and of the importance of IYRP 2026. As a result, the Government of Peru is 
preparing a support letter to the Government of Mongolia and IYRP 2026.
*	A webinar “Rangelands and Pastoralists of Latin America” organized by 
Greta Semplici and Cecilia Turin was carried out on February28 2023, where 
the cases of Mexico, Colombia and Peru were presented, and Pablo Manzano 
presented latest research.
*	The blog “The futures of the pastoralist systems of Southern Andean Peru” 
written by Cecilia Turin and illustrated by Greta Semplici’s photos was 
posted on February 25th at PASTRES.org: 
https://pastres.org/2023/02/24/the-futures-of-the-pastoralist-systems-of-southern-andean-peru/
*	A book on “Latin-American Pastoralism” proposed by Pablo Manzano is making 
little advances.

*  A representative from your region (any member of your RISG) who will be 
part of the IYRP  fundraising team. We already had some good suggestions on 
how to raise funds for the IYRP.

*	We may need further information to identify a person for that. We will 
appreciate if you could tell us what to be in this group implies, for 
example in terms of skills and work time. Thanks.

*  Names of any interested person who would like to be part of a small IYRP 
group that will assist in the organisation/planning of the Traditional 
Knowledge Forum in 2025 in Australia. This activity will be led by our 
Australian colleagues and we will support them. We hope that this forum that 
will take place a few days before the IRC in Australia will be attended by 
pastoralists and other traditional knowledge holders from different regions 
of the world. We thus need to assess how we can assist by raising funds for 
pastoralists to attend.

*	Cecilia Turin’s one of research interests is indigenous pastoralist 
knowledge. She can assist in the organization and planning of the Forum 2025 
but also contact Andean and other pastoralists to represent the region.

*  Lastly, names of any person who might be interested in being part of the 
Indigenous Oversight Committee by providing inputs and assisting with the 
scope for this forum as well as other IRC 2025 events.

*	Cecilia Turin due to same reason above.

Best regards,

Cecilia

RISG South America

From: Risgchairs <risgchairs-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu 
<mailto:risgchairs-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu> > On Behalf Of Igshaan 
Samuels
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 9:18 AM
To: risgchairs at list.cals.arizona.edu 
<mailto:risgchairs at list.cals.arizona.edu>
Subject: [Risgchairs] update on RISG activities

Dear RISG chairs

I hope you are all doing well.

We had a GCG meeting on 13 Feb 2023 but not all RISGs were represented. I 
thereby urge all RISG chairs to ensure that at least one person in your 
coordinating group attends the GCG meetings as very important matters are 
discussed.

I would like to request the following from all the regions:

*	A brief update on IYRP related activities from Nov 2022 to the end of Feb 
2023. We would like to populate an update for the IYRP ISG.
*	A representative from your region (any member of your RISG) who will be 
part of the IYRP  fundraising team. We already had some good suggestions on 
how to raise funds for the IYRP.
*	Names of any interested person who would like to be part of a small IYRP 
group that will assist in the organisation/planning of the Traditional 
Knowledge Forum in 2025 in Australia. This activity will be led by our 
Australian colleagues and we will support them. We hope that this forum that 
will take place a few days before the IRC in Australia will be attended by 
pastoralists and other traditional knowledge holders from different regions 
of the world. We thus need to assess how we can assist by raising funds for 
pastoralists to attend.
*	Lastly, names of any person who might be interested in being part of the 
Indigenous Oversight Committee by providing inputs and assisting with the 
scope for this forum as well as other IRC 2025 events.

I still need to finalize the minutes of the last GCG meeting, but I can send 
you a link to the recording if you need further explanations.

Kind regards

Igshaan

Disclaimer - This e-mail is subject to UWC policies and e-mail disclaimer 
published on our website at:  <https://www.uwc.ac.za/disclaimer> 
https://www.uwc.ac.za/disclaimer

-- 
Risgchairs mailing list
Risgchairs at list.cals.arizona.edu <mailto:Risgchairs at list.cals.arizona.edu>
https://list.cals.arizona.edu/mailman/listinfo/risgchairs

-- 

Sincerely,
P.Vivekanandan,
SEVA,
45, T.P.M.Nagar,
Virattipathu,
Madurai - 625 016
Tamil Nadu, India.
Phone:    0452 - 238 09 43 ; 238 00 82 .(O)
e-mail: vivekseva at gmail.com <mailto:vivekseva at gmail.com>

website:  www.sevango.in <http://www.sevango.in>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://list.cals.arizona.edu/pipermail/risgchairs/attachments/20230317/fb2b39c6/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: WCA RISG activity report_March2023.docx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Size: 64730 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://list.cals.arizona.edu/pipermail/risgchairs/attachments/20230317/fb2b39c6/attachment-0001.docx>