Pastoralism
The only global section linking Indigenous rights and pastoral livelihoods — mobility as a right, customary land tenure, and the green transition.
Illustrations. Community photographs will be added with Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
Transhumance is a rational land-use system, not a problem to be settled. Cross-border protocols (ECOWAS) and the Declaration on Transhumance frame mobility as a protected practice.
Solar, wind and carbon projects increasingly overlap rangelands governed by customary law. Without FPIC, the green transition risks reproducing colonial land grabs.
Herd genetics, water reading, drought forecasting: pastoral knowledge is climate science. Documenting it requires community consent and TK labels.
Kel Tamasheq (dromedaries), Fulɓe/Mbororo (cattle), Maasai (cattle), Sámi (reindeer), Quechua (camelids) — explore their fact sheets.