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Pastoralism

Indigenous pastoralism

The only global section linking Indigenous rights and pastoral livelihoods — mobility as a right, customary land tenure, and the green transition.

2026 is the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP), declared by the UN General Assembly.
Cattle herding across the Sahel rangelands
Camel caravans: the dromedary economy of the Sahara

Illustrations. Community photographs will be added with Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).

Mobility as a right

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.

Customary tenure & the green transition

Solar, wind and carbon projects increasingly overlap rangelands governed by customary law. Without FPIC, the green transition risks reproducing colonial land grabs.

Knowledge systems

Herd genetics, water reading, drought forecasting: pastoral knowledge is climate science. Documenting it requires community consent and TK labels.

Pastoral peoples on this platform

Kel Tamasheq (dromedaries), Fulɓe/Mbororo (cattle), Maasai (cattle), Sámi (reindeer), Quechua (camelids) — explore their fact sheets.