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A Case of Benign Neglect: Knowledge Gaps About Sustainability in Pastoralism and Rangelands

08 Mar 2019

Pastoralism is practiced by millions of people worldwide. It has roots in every part of the world and back thousands of years to the beginning of agriculture. But while pastoral societies have existed for millennia, we still don’t know that much about the interlinkages between pastoral practices and the rangelands these depend upon. It’s as if they are invisible in a lot of research about the global environment. There are many questions we cannot answer today with confidence because of widespread gaps in understanding rangelands and pastoralists. Yet, the answers to these questions have profound implications for national and global policy – and influence on how we will deal with climate change.

Status: Completed

Type: Monograph

Author: Kathrine I. Johnsen, Maryam Niamir-Fuller, Abdelkader Bensada, Ann Waters-Bayer

Year of publication: 2019

Publisher: UN Environment and GRID-Arendal

Tags: agriculture pastoralism gap analysis deserts grasslands wetlands

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