As a part of the Nyéléni Forum, WAMIP participated in the edition of the last issue of the Nyéléni Newsletter. In the midpoint of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026, Nyéléni Forum wanted to highlight the vital role that pastoralists communities play in sustaining food systems, biodiversity, and life. The latest Nyéléni newsletter explores the struggles and resilience of pastoralist peoples as they confront climate change, land grabbing, displacement, and extractivism—while building alliances and defending their territories and ways of life.
The issue included:
- “The road towards pastoralists’ rights” – WAMIP
- Editorial: “Pastoralism at the crossroads: between struggles and recognition” (WAMIP)
- “Evictions of pastoralists in Tanzania” – Edward Porokwa, Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations (PINGO)’s Forum, Tanzania
- “Pastoral Code in Chad” –Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Association des Femmes Peules et Peuples Autochtones du Chad (Indigenous Women and Peoples’ Association of Chad) – AFPAT, Chad – WAMIP Central Africa
- “Land and mining: New struggles for Mongolia’s pastoralists” –Ariell Ahearn, Steps without Borders, Mongolia
- “Conflict management initiatives in Cameroon” – Ali Ali Shatou, Mbororo Pastoralists (Cameroon), Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association (MBOSCUDA), WAMIP Central Africa
- “Asia pastoralist women’s gathering – MERA+15” – Megha Sheth, South Asia Pastoral Alliance (India) and WAMIP South Asia
- “Scientists in support of pastoralism” –Carlos Bolomey, History and Geography Department, University of Tarapacá, Chile / Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS)
- “A new narrative for pastoralism” – PASTRES Project
- “Pastoralists and climate change” – PASTRES Project
Read the new issue here: https://nyeleni.org/…/newsletter-no-64-pastoralism-at…/