The online booth for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralism (#IYRP) has just gone live and is extremely worthwhile to visit. The video by the Mongolian government is lovely and in the East Asia/South Asia section there is a very short video clip by Hanwant Singh, the director of our partner organization LPPS. And do watch the trailer for an upcoming 5 part Arte series on ‘The Guardians of the Earth”!

Here is the link: https://iyrp.info/

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We are pleased to invite to an online seminar to share the results of a project to look for the data situation on pastoralism in five different countries: Argentina, Germany, India, Kenya and Uganda.

Registration is mandatory at this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuf-irrzktGdJlNGRSWH1jX1B_5cHQeKKF

The summaries of the studies will be published here shortly.

This is one of the insights emanating from the Regional ‘Rest of Asia’  Multistakeholder Platform of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock that was held on 9^th and 10^th September.

 While livestock economies that depend on feed imports (China) or international markets (Cashmere goats in Mongolia) suffered, local value chains have remained relatively unscathed. Heightened concern of consumers about the origin and quality of their food, may have benefited small producers.

Another interesting experience is the re-emergence of ethnoveterinary medicine. As drug supply chains were interrupted, livestock owners returned to traditional knowledge for treating their animals.