August: Indigenous and local knowledge, culture and innovation

• This SPARC partner brief makes a case for more locally tailored and flexible anticipatory action in drylands, highlighting the need for adaptable financing, robust local profiles andstronger knowledge- sharing networks to support pastoralist resilience.

• This discussion paper explores how agropastoral communities in Nigeria are coping with compounding shocks, including COVID-19. The authors highlight diverse livelihoodimpacts, uneven aid perceptions and emerging adaptation strategies.

• This policy brief summarises the core findings of a study on the sharing of food aid andother types of aid as a coping strategy across two consecutive droughts in pastoral areas ofEthiopia. Communities were heavily dependent on food aid to help them through the drought period, not only in directly supplementing diet, but also as something to share by communities reliant on local social networks and reciprocal support systems.

• This report explores how pastoralists in South Sudan are navigating repeated climate andconflict shocks, with a focus on immediate coping responses and how these are reshaping long-term livelihood goals and perceptions of pastoralism.

• This report investigates how pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Unity State, South Sudan, are adjusting their livelihoods in response to conflict and climate shocks, and considerswhether these changes signal temporary coping mechanisms or longer-term shifts.

• This report explores how farmers and pastoralists in Somalia responded to early drought warnings between 2020 and 2022, showing that limited local options constrained action andunderscoring the need for long-term investment in flexible, locally grounded strategies.

UNHCR. 2024. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples: Mobile Indigenous Peoples. UNGA. A/79/160. New York. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a79160-report-special-rapporteur-rights-indigenous-peoples-jose

Comprendre, échanger et transmettre les savoir-faire agro-pastoraux locaux grâce à des vidéos d'autoconfrontation

Feeding flocks on rangelands: insights into the local ecological knowledge of shepherds in Boulemane province (Morocco)https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/rj17006

Documentation of local innovations, Traditional knowledge  and best parctices developed by pastralists and indiviuals are to be recognised and disseminated through the Pastoralists and Rangeland Awards organised by SEVA (P. Vivekananda, Chair SA in collaboration with FES, CfP, IGFRI , IRC and others) 2021-2023.https://iyrp.info/sites/default/files/Pastoralist%20%26%20Rangeland%20Awardees%20Profile%202021_Merged_1.pdf

Australia: Fire management on the Dampier Peninsula is led by indigenous ranger groups of Bardi Jawi, Nyul Nyul, Yawuru; pastoralists (Country Downs, Yeeda, Roebuck Plains) and WA’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.  Youtube :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM9Nlkd-wSA

Australia: Darrylin is a Jaru women, managing Lamboo Station in the Kimberey. Recognise and respect the specific knowledge that women pastoralists have and their contribution to maintaining healthy rangelands and sustainable pastoralist livelihoods.  https://youtu.be/AUuU-fpNYM0?si=SkSiq4Bxyw95rOKw

Australia: Nantawarrina rangers have learnt how to use drones, to make some of their work on country easier e.g. drones can help identify feral animals for control; monitor revegetation project; Monitor native wildlife.https://www.indigenousdesertalliance.com/stories/wildu-minaka-eagle-eye-drone-training

Australia:  The Ecological Cultural Knowledge series records the cultural knowledge of plants and language of five language groups in south-western NSW. In this short film, the Ngiyampaapeople share their oral histories and different uses of native plant materials in the local area to protect and preserve the stories for future generations.  https://youtu.be/X31cV0tAaQs?si=48o2AEHRzgeiFZBW

India: Penning system (manuring the farmers field by night halt of herds) promotes sustainable farming. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jR-tL6kmq8peRN9_Q95z928AKmS4s_MG/view?usp=drive_link

Niger: Many tourists are attracted by the Guerewool, an annual festival of the Peulhs Bororo. It is held every year on the sidelines of the festivities of the Salty Cure, it takes place in most of the Peulh villages located around the nomadic site. https://www.zenith-tours.com/festival-de-guerewool 

CLUB UNESCO TRANSHUMANCES & TRANSITIONS association.

• Objectives:

  • To contribute to the creation of a space for interaction and dialogue between students, teachers and other stakeholders.

  • To promote the creation of study groups and international relations

  • Contribute to the civic education of its members, in particular by helping them to adapt to and understand the Transhumance practices and know-how with a view to a successful agro-ecological transition.

  • To establish relations, partnerships and actions at national and international level.

  • To develop projects that contribute to the attractiveness of the professions and skills associated with Transhumance practices and know-how

  • Encourage intercultural exchanges between countries 

  • Organise and/or take part in socio-educational, awareness-raising and popularisation initiatives on the Transhumance practices and know-how

  • To promote the values of UNESCO and those of the practices and know-how 

  • To help coordinate national and international actions with any type of structure that wishes to work in the spirit of UNESCO in relation to transhumance https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/club-unesco-transhumances-transitions/posts/?feedView=all