About
- Field of research: Sustainability
- Disciplines involved: Ecology, environmental science, economy, social science.
- Duration: 2019-2022
- Innovative activities: Creation of an international information network to compile, standardize and make data on pastoralims available.
- Impacts on education: Impacts on education go beyond the scope of this project. However, the co-production of knowledge partly planned for Objective 2 will lead to new projects with education-worthy outcomes. The program will have societal impact through the involvement of civil society and decission makers.
- Questions/ issues addressed by the project : To better understand the environmental and societal relevance of pastoralism practice at global scale and provide indicators to assess paths towards sustainability of pastoralism. By doing this we aim to initiate changes in pastoralism awareness and its links to biodiversity globally.
- Outcomes expected : The program will provide a global exhaustive assessment of relevance of pastoralism globally, by quantify the population of pastoralists, their contributions to GDP, and putting the geographical extent of the livelihood based on systematic compilation of information. Indicators to assess sustainability of pastoralism across time and space will be developed. The information and products obtained from this endeavor will be made publicly available.
- Leader(s): Leader: Mar Cabeza; co-leaders: Nils Chr. Stenseth, Daniel Burgas
- Steering Committee: Mar Cabeza (Finland), Nils Chr. Stenseth (Norway), Daniel Burgas (Finland), Luis Cadahia (Norway), Pablo Manzano (Kenya), Pablo Frere (Argentina), Maria Fernandez-Gimenez (USA), Nitya Ghotge (India), Jussi Eronen (Finland), Zhibin Zhan (China)
- IUBS National Committees involved in the project: China, Finland, India, Mongolia, Norway, Russia. Other relevant countries involved: Argentina, Kenya, USA
- Former IUBS Initiative: Pastoralism project of IUBS (2017-2019)