[Srm] Fwd: Rangelands Partnership Newsletter -- April 2019

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From: Rangelands Partnership <adalke at email.arizona.edu<mailto:adalke at email.arizona.edu>>
Date: April 25, 2019 at 5:18:44 AM MST
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Subject: Rangelands Partnership Newsletter -- April 2019
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April 2019

Newsletter Topics

Annual Meeting - Open Registration
CIG Rangeland Thesaurus
SRM OCW & Social Media Updates
International Report

Member Activities

Listen to Art of the Range<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=23879c5edf&e=7001fb7a12> Podcasts
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Announcements

RP Annual Meeting
Fargo, ND | May 19-22, 2019

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Reminder

To add records/DLIOs to the database, review the RP Guidelines<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=5ba10c59e3&e=7001fb7a12> pages 15-21. More questions? Contact Amber Dalke<mailto:adalke at email.arizona.edu?subject=DLIO%20-%20RP%20Database%20Question>.

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RP Annual Meeting
Fargo, ND | May 19-22, 2019

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Registration for the 2019 RP Meeting is Open!<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=96152a0641&e=7001fb7a12>

Please contact Nicole Juve<mailto:nicole.km.juve at ndsu.edu?subject=RP%20Annual%20Meeting> if you have questions about travel, accommodations, the meeting, or have dietary restrictions.

On May 22nd, there is an optional tour to Central Grasslands Research Extension Center in Streeter, ND. Central Grasslands Research Extension Center is located in south central North Dakota in the Missouri Coteau known as the Prairie Pothole Region. The Prairie Pothole Region is known for its importance to waterfowl, producing over 50% of the lower 48 state ducks.

The Center has 10 full-time research scientists and staff studying areas including range science, forage agronomy and animal science. Central Grasslands Research Extension Center was created to address the following research priorities areas: 1) range ecology and grazing management; 2) forage systems; and 3) livestock nutrition and reproductive efficiency. To accomplish these objectives, the Center manages approximately 900 beef animals, including 425 to 450 breeding females. The land base for these operations includes 5,335 acres, of which the majority is native and improved pasture.

A major focus of the center is to study disturbance ecology and grazing efficiency of our grasslands to 1) increase economic return for the livestock grower, 2) enhance plant diversity, 3) improve habitat for pollinator and bird species, 4) improve soil health, and 5) maintain or improve herd health and reproductive performance.

Current projects we will tour include 1) patch-burn grazing rangelands (both spring burn treatment and summer burn treatment, 2) modified twice-over rest rotation that is designed to mimic patch burn grazing without fire, 3) impacts of treatments on birds and pollinators, 4) impacts of treatments on livestock, vegetation and soils, and 5) grazing efficiency study.

See you in Fargo!

CIG Rangeland Thesaurus
By Amber Dalke
University of Arizona

Members of the Rangelands Partnership recently received a Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to develop a rangelands thesaurus that will improve the effectiveness of finding and delivering key grazingland technical information to conservation planners and other land managers. The three-year project led by the University of Idaho and University of Arizona, will use a standard vocabulary to tag information resources (e.g. manuals, handbooks, scientific literature) at the document or paragraph level for more efficient and relevant searching. This information will be available using a web‐based, mobile‐friendly application with online/offline capabilities that provides a search interface for discovering and delivering relevant rangeland resources.

Over the next few years, five working groups (thesaurus development, content selection, content indexing, website/app development, and distribution) will work together to complete the project. The RP is critical to this effort. We will need your assistance to develop the thesaurus, to find the right content, and to test the app. At our meeting in May, we will spend some time focusing on thesaurus development and content selection. There will be breakout sessions for these two topic areas so please be prepared to join one or both discussions.

Please review the grant<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=e2dc630d1f&e=7001fb7a12> and start to become familiar with the project. For more information or to join one or more of the five working groups, please contact Amber Dalke<mailto:adalke at email.arizona.edu?subject=CIG%20Rangelands%20Thesaurus> or Eric Winford<mailto:ewinford at uidaho.edu?subject=CIG%20Thesaurus>.

SRM OCW & Social Media Updates
By Sarah Noelle
University of Arizona

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During the SRM meetings in Minneapolis this past February  Amber Dalke and I, became co-chairs of the SRM’s Outreach, Communications, and Website (OCW) Committee. At the meetings, we hosted and led discussions on the SRM’s goals for the OCW committee, toured the SRM website, and the committee’s vision for the future.

The Rangelands Partnership portion of the meeting held updates from multiple partners including:

  *   Website redesign discussion with Barb Hutchinson
  *   Restructuring the International Year activities by Barb Hutchinson
  *   CIG update from Jason Karl
  *   RREA webinar update from Mark Thorne

Nicole Juve prepared an excellent Welcome to Fargo presentation<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=4a33023eda&e=7001fb7a12> to invite the Partnership to our annual meeting to be held next month in Fargo, ND.

Amber and I also led updates on the activities by the Social Media and Marketing task force. The task force, (Sheila Merrigan, Retta Bruegger, Livia Olsen, Amy Shannon, Amber, and myself) has met regularly throughout the past year to discuss ideas for outreach on our main page, Facebook, and members have been busy creating content. Along with continuing our efforts to regularly post content to the page, Livia has initiated survey questions in an effort to learn more about our Facebook followers. These surveys have received positive engagement from those contributing to the comment section and overall have resulted in positive numbers within Facebook Insights. The latter half of our April posting resulted in at 375% increase in page views, a 200% increase in page likes, 300% increase in page followers, and increased our post reach by 6%.

We will dive deeper into our SRM report and the social media numbers during the RP Annual Meeting in Fargo. Stay tuned!

International Report | April 2019
By Barb Hutchinson
University of Arizona

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ILC Rangelands Initiative Launches Website: This article<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=bd4df857e2&e=7001fb7a12> explains that the new website<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=1f44d2cb4d&e=7001fb7a12> will be a hub of information on global rangeland and land issues.  Submissions to the blog are encouraged!  Future additions will include pages from the Rangelands Initiative Africa and Asia efforts.

Article: Supporting pastoral mobility in East and West Africa explores<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=253a0d06fb&e=7001fb7a12> explores livestock markets and the use of pastoralist mobility to gradually enhance the growing cattle economy inside and outside of Karamoja, Uganda. The Challenge of Livestock Markets in Karamoja Uganda<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=805b09934e&e=7001fb7a12> are further discussed as well as recommendations to improve the environment and help redevelop the livestock market value chain of the sub region.

Blog: Youth moving to town: a major cause of uncertainty among the pastoralists of Isiolo, Kenya<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=cdfaf5dcb4&e=7001fb7a12>. (Sussex IDS; Pastres Project)

Case Study:  Livestock Market Secures Livelihoods in Marsabit, Kenya<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=b0bcd49545&e=7001fb7a12>. After constructing a new livestock market, pastoralists were empowered to form a Livestock Marketing Association in Marsabit, Kenya. This project led to an increase in local livestock sale and strengthened the livelihoods of vulnerable pastoral communities including women traders. In addition, security was improved due to agreements among the resident communities to foster peace and reap the dividends from the market.

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News Highlights: The Bi-Weekly ICPALD Livestock & Pastoral News Highlights<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=9211b30553&e=7001fb7a12> is compiled by the IGAD Centre for Pastoral and Livestock Development and focuses on issues pertinent to the Livestock and Pastoral Sector from member states newspapers.

OpEd: These OpEds give developing country perspectives from the the State Minister for Livestock in Ethiopia and from the Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Fisheries and Irrigation in Kenya.
- Cows and Climate Change: Clearing Up the Confusion<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=2e367e2802&e=7001fb7a12>
- Innovative solutions to sustainable development? Try livestock<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=5f3e18a861&e=7001fb7a12>
- Healthy sustainable diets for all: A view from Ethiopia<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=6eb6a6625c&e=7001fb7a12>

Policy Brief: Building resilience and disaster risk reduction among pastoralist communities, Lessons from West Pokot County<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=b93e86cc97&e=7001fb7a12>. Published by the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, this policy brief outlines key messages and recommendations.

Policy Brief: Creating opportunities for sustainability through understanding of livelihood transformations in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=0b94c3f7cf&e=7001fb7a12>. Published by the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, this policy brief discusses socio-economic transformations in the drylands of West Pokot, Kenya. It focuses on how land tenure is affecting marginalized groups in society and how climate change is affecting livestock raring as well as provides suggestions to what different actors of the society could do to make pastoralists of West Pokot more resilient to climate shocks and development challenges.

Video: Published by the Spanish network of women pastoralists “Ganaderas en Red” to reclaim equality in all aspects of life. Watch the video: If you can do it, I can do it. If I can do it, you can do it.<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=b3ade57705&e=7001fb7a12>

Viewpoint: A Month, a Year and a Decade in Support of Sustainable Rangelands and Pastoralism:<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=5ee3e9d62f&e=7001fb7a12> Landscape News | 28-03-2019 (Global Landscapes Forum)

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