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Betreff: 	[Nyéléni] New edition of Nyeleni now online!
Datum: 	Thu, 9 Dec 2021 21:43:39 +0000
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    *Introducing the message of pastoralist communities, a voice from
    the land* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=171>



        *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! *


More than half of the Earth’s surface is made up of grasslands and 
rangelands. For thousands of years pastoralist communities have 
domesticated animals and managed ecosystems in a sustainable way, 
producing a diversity of cultures and food systems that are adapted and 
resilient. Associated biodiversity has always co-existed with pastoralism.

Pastoralism is based on the extensive use of territory, sometimes 
grasslands but also forests or cropland after harvests, marginal lands 
and other spaces that very often are not suitable for agriculture. 
Pastoralism is practiced by between 200 and 500 million people worldwide 
in highly variable environments in nearly every country of the world 
from the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa to the Arctic Circle.

Our way of life has existed since time immemorial, evolving together 
with the landscape. But today pastoralism is threatened as never before 
by the forced industrialization of livestock farming. We have to stop 
the loss of grazing land, “land grabbing” and the restrictions on 
mobility that make it impossible to maintain a viable pastoralist 
system. Currently we are defining a possible campaign on Pastoralists 
Rights. Our identity and culture is being eroded as policies fail to 
sufficiently include, understand or even recognize the existence of 
pastoralism. Low economic returns and a lack of recognition mean that 
young pastoralists in some areas feel forced to leave our way of life or 
switch to more intensive forms of farming. We are promoting a Youth 
Section of WAMIP, as for young people it is often difficult to gain 
access to land.

Policy decisions are made with little or no consultation with local 
communities. We are the traditional land users but we are systematically 
excluded from decisions on land management, including the reintroduction 
or management of wild predators or the designation of Nature 
Conservation areas. Bureaucratic requirements, biased towards intensive 
livestock production, impose a huge and unrealistic burden of paperwork 
on pastoralists.

But all across Europe and the world, we are getting organized into 
federations, building regional networks and gaining international 
recognition from leading institutions. We strive to defend the interests 
of local producers and to increase our political representation. We are 
creating research centres, teaming up with scientific institutions, 
training our young people and building our capacity.

WAMIP is an alliance of pastoralist communities and mobile indigenous 
peoples throughout the world and our common space to preserve our forms 
of life in pursuit of our livelihoods and cultural identity, to 
sustainably manage common property resources, and to obtain full respect 
of our rights. As an independent grassroot movement we work together 
with other civil society organisations to influence policy makers at 
national, regional and international level, and supranational bodies 
such as the UN and subsidiary organisations like FAO, CBD etc.

We fight these trends and maintain our way of life by continuously 
innovating and improving. We use local breeds to adapt to a changing 
environment. We try to raise awareness among consumers and to sell 
directly to them. We are using new media to promote our cultural 
traditions and organize festive events. Some of us have negotiated 
contracts to prevent fires, maintain heritage landscapes and provide 
other environmental services. We are ambassadors of local cultural 
heritage, sustainable productions and for Food Sovereignty. /European 
Shepherds Network / <http://shepherdnet.eu/>


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on Food Sovereignty

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