Du 9 au 16 décembre 2024, s’est déroulée au Cameroun une mission transnationale d'échange de connaissances sur les questions foncières et agropastorales. Une mission qui a réuni des experts, praticiens, acteurs de la société civile et autorités politico administratives.

The project Responsible Land Policy in Cameroon is being implemented since January 2023 and contributes to strengthening land use rights in the Centre Region of Cameroon, safeguarding the livelihoods of the rural population and simultaneously promoting the protection and restoration of forest-rich landscapes.

Sometimes at high-level international events, like the Africa Climate Summit held in early September 2023, we do not have the opportunity to, or forget to, include the voices of people who are going through the very issues discussed.

It is proposed in Uzbekistan to develop a draft law “On pastures” in a new edition and the procedure for granting pasture land plots for rent.

NELGA has put out nine country profiles about South Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Egypt, and Mauritania. These profiles give information about pastoralism and small-scale agriculture in these countries.

Nearly 70% of the areas which are open natural ecosystems in India overlap with those which the government calls wastelands.

Pastoralists are repeatedly ignored in global debates about climate change and the future of food. Extensive livestock production can and should remain part of a low carbon future

Le nomadisme pastoral, un mode de vie millénaire reposant sur la mobilité au gré des saisons et des pâtures du bétail, tend à disparaître.

In the first part of a monthly series, CNA looks at the threat of desertification in Mongolia.

Following the latest round of disengagement of Indian and Chinese soldiers in Eastern Ladakh, elected representatives in the region and military experts have vastly different takes on the development, with representatives saying that India has now lost its grazing fields and military experts hailing it as a strategic move. 

Different marginalized population groups like women, refugees, pastoralists and IPLC will be at the center of the discussion.

There are too many animals for the available water supply in the Gobi desert region. The situation worsens each year.

Main photo: Bolortuya Bekh-Ochir, right, and Jargalsuren Tungalagzaya fill a trough with water for a herd of goats in Mongolia's Gobi desert region (URANCHIMEG TSOGKHUU, GPJ MONGOLIA)