Just after the World Pastoralist Assembly, we headed to the UNCCD COP to make sure pastoralists’ voices were heard. Building on the outcomes of our WPA, we brought four key demands to COP17: 🌱 Protect pastoralists’ collective rights to land, territories, mobility and security. 🌱 Recognise pastoralist territories and governance systems. 🌱 Put pastoralists (especially

WAMIP joins WFFP in the Global Fight Against Industrial Aquaculture! ✊ BETTER FOR WHO? Read the testimonies from fisher and Indigenous Peoples from 9 different countries about the harms of industrial aquaculture and download the full report ahead of the FAO’s Conference on Fisheries in Rome. We do not need a Blue Transformation that makes

One of the most powerful moments of the World Pastoralist Assembly was having the time to sit together, region by region, and talk about what is happening on the ground and our visions for the future. This is how our global pastoralist movement is organised: horizontally and inclusively, with grassroots pastoralist organisations coming together in

During the World Pastoralist Assembly, our Mongolian fellow herders shared the struggles they are facing in their territories. Across Mongolia, mining and extractive projects are taking over pastoralist lands, disrupting traditional livelihoods, restricting mobility and pushing communities away from their ancestral lands. Despite organising and demanding to be heard, their voices are too often ignored

On August 16, more than 130 pastoralists and allies from across our nine regions around the world gathered at the WAMIP basecamp in Gorkhi-Terelj, Mongolia, for the World Pastoralist Assembly (WPA). The WPA was a pastoralist-led and inclusive space that brought together grassroots pastoralists attending the conference and field trips organised by the Government of

A key political challenge for WAMIP during the Global Pastoralists Conference in Mongolia was ensuring meaningful influence and decision-making power for pastoralists in the aim of producing a Global Pastoralists Declaration. Three members of WAMIP’s Steering Committee, Bhavana Desaj (WAMIP South Asia), Maamankhuu Sodnom (WAMIP Central Asia) and Fernando García (WAMIP Europe), are part of

Today, we attended the first day of the Global Pastoralists Gathering in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. We’re here as a global grassroots pastoralist movement to make sure our voices and realities are heard. However, the lack of meaningful representation of pastoralists in this space concerns us. Throughout the day, we presented our red lines and made clear