This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of pastoralism, combining major theoretical debates with an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on pastoral systems across the world. Approaching pastoralism as a social-ecological system, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about how pastoralists make a living and organize social life while managing herds in diverse and often highly variable environments.  A few of the chapters are open access and can be accessed on this website. 

Open Access Version: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/30/2?volume=30&vol=30&issue=2&publicationCode=whpnp.  Also includes a section on the UN IYRP.  Guest Editors:  Angela Kronenburg García,  Joana Roque de Pinho, and  Annemiek Pas Schrijver

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) is pleased to share a comprehensive guide to all its resources - more than 200 - regarding pastoralism in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East. SPARC ended in December 2025. You can find more information here about SPARC’s resources and how to navigate them. SPARC’s documentary "Charting new futures in Africa’s drylands" is now online.

• Maria Fernández-Gímenez - Introductions
• Maryam Niamir-Fuller - Who are pastoralists & what are rangelands?
• Serena Ferrari - Livelihoods & economics: https://arizona.app.box.com/file/2109714834704
• Jonathan Davies - Services & infrastructure by & for pastoralists  
• Pedro Herrera - Benefits to society
• Mark Moritz - Pastoral land, water & mobility
• Tungaa Ulambayar - Pastoralist women
• Anders Oskal - Indigenous knowledge, culture & innovation
• Carmen Jaquez - Climate change & resilience
• Alexis Bonogofsky - Biodiversity & ecosystem services
• Sairandhri Lapalikar - Sustainable rangeland uses & restoration
• Elena Chen - Pastoralist youth
• Igshaan Samuels - Innovative solutions for a sustainable future

Global Landscapes Forum Article - https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/101185/what-are-rangelands-and-pastoralism/?utm_campaign=GLF_Newsletter

Because pastoralism is such an important part of Mongolia’s culture and economy, Mongolia has relatively good information about pastoralism, pastoralist and rangelands. The latest brief in LPP’s Accounting for Pastoralists series gives an overview of pastoralism in the country and the sources of data that are available.  Download the full brief (6 pages) here: https://www.pastoralpeoples.org/documents/accounting-for-pastoralists-in-mongolia/

Other briefs in this series cover Afghanistan, Argentina, Germany, India, Iran, Kenya, Mozambique, Pakistan, Spain and Uganda. https://www.pastoralpeoples.org/thematic/accounting-for-pastoralists-studies/

Soft cover Trade book with eighty-one photographs of nomads from my work and journeys in the Himalaya, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Mongolian Steppe spanning a period of fifty years from 1975 to 2025. NOMADS is published to celebrate the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists in 2026.  Book can be viewed online.

Daniel Miller - wildyakman@gmail.com; https://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/danielmiller

The Hub's work focuses on sustainable rangeland and dryland management, climate resilience, and community-based stewardship in Mongolia. We combine UNCCD/WOCAT science-based SLM approaches with local herder knowledge, youth engagement, and gender-responsive participation. As part of the Drynet mentorship and CSO engagement around CRIC23, Green Mongolia Hub has been contributing to LDN advocacy, CSO governance, and community-to-policy dialogue for rangelands and pastoralists.

• IYRP road map 2026 (2 June 2026) (pptx, pdf)
• Hoja de ruta para IYRP2026 (10 Oct 2025) (pptx, pdf)
• Feuille de route pour IYRP 2026 (10 Oct 2025) (pptx, pdf)

Website with beautiful photos showing pastoralist life in Mongolia.

• English - 2025
• French - 2025
• Spanish - 2025
• Portuguese - 2022
• Russian - 2024
• Oromoo – 2024

The new world map of yaks shows around 70 pastoralist groups who keep yaks and nearly 50 organizations that are involved in yak research, development and support. The map also shows the approximate range of the domesticated yak (Bos grunniens) as well as the distribution of wild yaks (Bos mutus).  Yaks are central to pastoral livelihoods in the cold, high mountains and plateaus of Central Asia, where few other livestock can thrive. Special thanks to Professor Lóng Ruìjūn of Lanzhou University, China, for the initial idea for this map and for providing much of the information on which it is based, and to Yang Xin of Lanzhou University for excellent collaboration.

• The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

• Rangeland Myths updates
• Blog - REPAiR project
• Podcast - REPAiR project

• English (Colour PNG, B/W PNG)
• Spanish (Colour PNG)
• French (Colour PNG)
• Arabic ( Colour PNG)
• Italian (Colour PNG)
• Russian (Colour JPG)
• Tajik (Colour PNG)
• Mongolian
• Tamil (Colour PNG)