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Resources included on this website are scientific, educational and outreach materials that refer directly to the IYRP initiative.
Resources
- Alle Veranstaltungen zu Weidelandschaften und Hirtentum (events on rangelands & pastoralism)
- IYRP Chinese Logo
Co-chairs: Cecilia Turin, Pablo Manzano & Pablo Frere
Posters
News
- SRM 2026 Awards Ceremony video (including Renner Awards)
SRM 2026 Renner Award Press Release
SRM Renner Award Introduction to the Winners - 8 minutes
SRM Awards Ceremony - YouTube - the Renner Award starts at 23 min.
- SRM 2026 Awards Ceremony video (including Renner Awards)
SRM 2026 Renner Award Press Release
SRM Renner Award Introduction to the Winners - 8 minutes
SRM Awards Ceremony - YouTube - the Renner Award starts at 23 min.
- SRM 2026 Awards Ceremony video (including Renner Awards)
SRM 2026 Renner Award Press Release
SRM Renner Award Introduction to the Winners - 8 minutes
SRM Awards Ceremony - YouTube - the Renner Award starts at 23 min.
Updates on the IYRP monthly themes were presented by members of the CAPA and CAM RISG IYRP group. Members shared progress, ongoing initiatives, and engagement at national and regional levels. Following this, key activities and upcoming events of the group were presented.
- Nebraska celebrates the IYRP
- Amid FMD, a quiet success story is unfolding in South Africa’s grasslands
SARAH FRAZEE: Amid FMD, a quiet success story is unfolding in South Africa’s grasslands Communal farmers lead the way in sustainable land management. Business Day, Opinion, January 29, 2026.
- South Africa’s grasslands set a global first for community-led carbon markets
Farming Online - Farming News - South Africa’s grasslands set a global first for community-led carbon markets
- First-ever CCB-labelled credits issued under Verra's updated VM0042 methodology
- 266,255 credits from 95,364 hectares of South African grasslands managed in the first monitoring period, engaging 4,000 communal farmers, and employing almost 300 people
- Project spans 950,000 hectares of communal and commercial rangeland
- Ministry of Agriculture - Ethiopia's Post
- Key Step Toward IYRP 2026 (FAO Ethiopia)
- Why 2026 is the Critical Turning Point for Ethiopia’s Rangelands
- The Woolmen Sheep Drive & Livery Fair
This long-established charity event celebrates a Freeman’s ancient “right” to bring sheep to market over the Thames. All funds raised go towards The Woolmen Charity and The Lord Mayor’s Appeal. The Woolmen Sheep Drive & Livery Fair - Worshipful Company of Woolmen
- Le Cirad et l’AFD au SIA 2026 pour célébrer l’année internationale du pastoralisme (webinar)
Key highlights covered in the webinar include: Strategic positioning: How Cirad is aligning its research on mobile livestock systems with the IYRP global mandate; and Operational projects: an overview of upcoming technical outputs, the "Transhumance 360°" digital initiative, and our participation in the International Agriculture Fair (Salon international de l’agriculture – 21 Feb – 1 March 2026). Press release: Le Cirad et l’AFD au SIA 2026 pour célébrer l’année internationale du pastoralisme | Cirad
The IYRP 2026 journey was formally launched on January 1, 2026, at 6:00 a.m., during sunrise at Kanyakumari Beach, the southernmost tip of India. As part of the IYRP 2026 action plan, an awareness journey addressing the key questions “Who are pastoralists?” and “What are rangelands?” will be undertaken across Tamil Nadu. Also announced was the official inauguration of the "Srivaikuntam Taluk Sheep and Cattle Pastoralists Sangam" on January 7, 2026 in the Thoothukudi District. By uniting the traditional pastoral communities around the Vallanadu hill region, this Sangam was established as a vital member of the Tamil Nadu Federation of Pastoral Peoples’ Sangams.
YRP 2026 Celebration - Thozhuvam Kidai Pongal
- IYRP Events in France (Web Portal)
Bengaluru: The assembly Thursday passed a bill aimed at providing welfare measures for migratory shepherds and safeguarding them from atrocities in the 2024-25 state budget. The House also passed The Basavana Bagewadi Development Authority (Amendment) Bill enabling the appointment of legislative council members to the authority, and The Karnataka Appointment of Recovery Commissioner for Seizure and Attachment of Property of Illegal Mining and Proceeds of Crime Bill which empowers the govt to recover money from illegal mining operations by attaching assets.
- Andean Regional Gathering a success!
Tiquipaya, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 4-6 August 2025
- Meeting Summary
- Presentation (pdf)
- Declaran IYRP GA amigo de la ciudad Tiquipaya - Bolivia (pdf)
- Poster
- Andean Regional Gathering a success!
Tiquipaya, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 4-6 August 2025
- Meeting Summary
- Presentation (pdf)
- Declaran IYRP GA amigo de la ciudad Tiquipaya - Bolivia (pdf)
- Poster
- A festival of pastoralism in Türkiye: Exploring development challenges together
Le groupe est ouvert aux échanges avec d'autres groupes de recherche en France et dans d'autres pays qui adoptent une approche transdisciplinaire dans la recherche sur le pastoralisme.
The group welcomes exchange with other research groups in France and other countries that are taking a transdisciplinary approach in research on pastoralism.
- N'Djamena Declaration 2013
- Nouakchott Declaration on Pastoralism 2013
- Aims, demands & narratives of the German IYRP Group
Exploring commons, climate & culture with a youth perspective
21–23 June 2024, Bechraji, Gujarat, India
Article in SRM Rangelands Around the World
3rd announcement of IRC2025
This table presents the WCA RISG's priorities & action plan towards IYRP 2026.
Workshop on Rangeland Management for Sustainable Rural Development
July 29 -31, 2024, Venue: SKICC, Srinagar, UT of Jammu and Kashmir, India
Organized by Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Jammu and Kashmir
In collaboration with Regional IYRP Support Group of South Asia (RISG-SA) and
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
Published by LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) 2022
- COFO WG / IYRP 2026 collaboration in Drylands Summer School
https://www.fao.org/dryland-forestry/news/news-detail/en/c/1631478/
Barry Irving, Layne Coppock, Lauren Svejcar, and David Borre
Maryam Niamir-Fuller & Igshaan Samuels
Capital Press article by Matthew Weaver; March 25, 2022
sent from Permanent Mission of Mongolia to ISG
sent from Permanent Mission of Mongolia to ISG
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N22/288/63/PDF/N2228863.pdf?OpenElement
- IYRP Declaration Celebrated at GIZ-Ethiopia & MetaMeta (Dream II Conference) 18-03-22
Presentation by Dr. Brien E [Ben] Norton (Utah State University), Robert Washington-Allen (University of Nevada, Reno), and William A. Payne (University of Nevada, Reno) at the Virtual Symposium "The International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) 2026: Global Framework, Action Plans, and Knowledge Gaps". February 22, 2022, 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management
The purpose of the Campfire Conversation was to engage Society for Range Management members in a discussion about spreading the message of the importance of rangelands to a global community that has no reference for what rangelands are. The expertise of rangeland management professionals, educators, researchers, students, ranchers and policy makers was sought in marketing rangelands to the world.
Presentation by Maryam Niamir-Fuller at the Global Grasslands & Savannah Dialogue Platform, 7 September 2021
- Statement from the Virtual Workshop on Rangelands and Pastoralism in Asia
- Announcement: Awards for Sustainable Pasture Management for Conserving Rangelands
- IYRP session on pastoralism at UNFSS Pre-Summit 26 July 2021
- Pastoral communities’ territories of life in Asia: Tales of coexistence
- Why the IYRP Should Matter to the U.S. Government
submitted by MoFALI
www.fao.org/3/cb4641en/cb4641en.pdf
www.fao.org/pastoralist-knowledge-hub/news/detail/en/c/1412664
- Letter from T JambalsterenImage
"An International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists could provide the impetus and momentum necessary for a worldwide understanding of the importance of these lands and people to global food security and environmental services.”
T. Jambaltseren, Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Light Industry, Mongolia
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3956444?ln=en
by Fernando Garcia, European Shepherds Network. Nyéléni Newsletter 42 (Dec 2020), p5
Communications Committee meeting minutes (February 2021)
This is the Ecological Capacity newspaper which is issued by JASIL 2-3 times per year. The articles are in Mongolian, as well as English and Russian.
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www.fao.org/3/nd765en/nd765en.pdf
www.fao.org/3/nd394es/nd394es.pdf
submitted by MoFALI
- Declaración de apoyo - support letter for IYRP from 35 organisations in Spain
