Rangelands and pastoralism of the Middle-East and North Africa, from reality to dream

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCentre for sustainable Development & Environmenten_US
cg.contributor.affiliationForests, Ranges and Watershed Management Organisationen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR System Organizationen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climateen_US
cg.creator.identifierMounir Louhaichi: 0000-0002-4543-7631en_US
cg.creator.identifierMouldi Gamoun: 0000-0003-3714-7674en_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.kalro.org/igc-irc2021congresskenya/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Volume-I-IGC-IRC-2021-CONGRESS-PROCEEDINGS.pdfen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
dc.contributor.authorNaghizadeh, Nadiaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBadripour, Hosseinen_US
dc.contributor.authorLouhaichi, Mouniren_US
dc.contributor.authorGamoun, Mouldien_US
dc.contributor.authorNiamir-Fuller, Maryamen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-05T20:38:13Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-12-05T20:38:13Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/125784en_US
dc.titleRangelands and pastoralism of the Middle-East and North Africa, from reality to dreamen_US
dcterms.abstractThe Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a vast area covering 20 countries from western Asia to North Africa, with nearly 9,000,000 Km2 and 303 million hectares of total rangelands. Rangelands play an essential role in supporting people’s livelihoods and food security. Mobile pastoralism is the most viable and resilient form of production and land use in the fragile drylands of MENA. However, the region’s governments have considered nomadic pastoralism backwards mainly because it was challenging to deliver mobile services. They designed various policies that were not in harmony with pastoralists’ customary rules and norms and severely weakened their mutual aid associations and governance systems for natural resources management. Nowadays, pastoralists’ rangelands and customary territories are shrinking, fragmenting, and degrading due to various reasons, but mainly the expansion of agricultural or industrial needs. Based on pastoralists and rangelands’ socio-ecological values, the world needs to apply the evidence-based experiences and Indigenous knowledge of pastoralists in preventing rangeland degradation. It is urgent to start a new paradigm shift for an inclusive interaction, establishing pro-poor livestock policies. These policies would address the barriers and bottlenecks faced by pastoral and agro-pastoral communities and secure land tenure at community and landscape levels through multi-stakeholder dialogue, including during the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP). It is time to call for respect of customary governance systems of pastoralists, recognition of their territories as Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCA3s—territories of life) under various and norms in the region like Qoroq, Hima, Agdal, and any other form of local conservation to prevent fragmentation of pastoralists territories and rangelands degradation leading to desertification.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.available2022-05-27en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationNadia Naghizadeh, Hossein Badripour, Mounir Louhaichi, Mouldi Gamoun, Maryam Niamir-Fuller. (27/5/2022). Rangelands and pastoralism of the Middle-East and North Africa, from reality to dream. Kenya.en_US
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dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; Non-commercial educational use onlyen_US
dcterms.publisherKenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organizationen_US
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen_US
dcterms.subjectgoal 13 climate actionen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
dcterms.subjectcustomaryen_US
dcterms.subjectrecognitionen_US
dcterms.subjecticcasen_US
dcterms.subjectparadigm-shiften_US
dcterms.typeConference Paperen_US

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