Global rangelands data platform

Flintan, F., Getahun Y., Garcia, C., 2024. Global rangelands data platform: IPSR Innovation Profile. First edition, September 2024. Montpellier: CGIAR System Organization.

A global platform for multiple users including the UN and other development agencies for sourcing, consolidating, and sharing information on rangelands status, change, influencing forces, and restoration opportunities.

The global rangelands data platform is being established in response to a gap in rangelands data identified by the UN Environment Assembly through Resolution L17 Innovations in Sustainable Rangelands and Pastoralism 2019 and the complimentary report: A Case of Benign Neglect. Knowledge Gaps About Sustainability in Pastoralism and Rangelands. With funding from the CGIAR Big Data Platform and through a consultative process the outline of the platform was conceptualised. A global rangelands atlas was launched as a first step. It is anticipated that the global rangelands data platform will be launched in 2023. It will bring together big data on rangelands, source data including exploring crowd-sourcing and be an interactive platform for producing reports and trends for multiple users including UN Agencies monitoring rangeland and development agencies and actors developing interventions for rangelands, researchers and academics, and ultimately pastoralists themselves.