Value of Pastoralism (page 1)
We need pastoralists!
Misereor in collaboration with the League for Pastoral Peoples, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture), Foundation for Ecological Security and Welt-Sichten, published a dossier “We need pastoralists” (2026, 20pp) edited by Sabine Dorlöchter-Sulser and colleagues in Africa and Asia. It focuses on how herders and crop farmers collaborate to sustain fertile landscapes. An […]
United Nations declares 2026 International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP), to be formally implemented by the FAO. This paper (United Nations declares 2026 International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists), published in Cambridge Prisms: Drylands in December 2025, introduces the IYRP and associated Global Alliance for Rangelands & Pastoralists (GA4RP) by […]
CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism
In 2020–21, initially the CELEP core group and then other CELEP members and partners engaged in intensive discussion to come to a common understanding of pastoralism. This discussion was based on the pastoral development orientation framework that Saverio Krätli developed for MISEREOR. In the 3-pager entitled “Pastoralists turn variability into food”, CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism […]
Webinar on pastoralism and link with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’
What is pastoralism? Is this traditional way of life incompatible with modernity? A webinar on 23 May 2024 showed how pastoralism contributes to national economies, food security, environment and cultural heritage and how it is linked to Pope Francis’s social encyclical Laudato Si’. The webinar was organised during the Laudato Si’ Week (19–26 May) by […]
With camelids into a sustainable future
For the International Year of Camelids 2024, Misereor, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture) and LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) in Germany have brought out a dossier on pastoral camelid husbandry around the world: “With camelids into a sustainable future: learning from pastoralist communities” (2024, 20pp), published by welt-sichten, Frankfurt. It describes the […]