Beginning in early 2016, many organizations began working together to gain support for a United Nations designated International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP). This led to the formalization of an IYRP Steering Committee that has spearheaded this effort by actively engaging with colleagues and interested parties around the world. The Steering Committee has coordinated

The PKH is a project by FAO to bring pastoralists and international actors together to integrate pastoralist concerns into international policy dialogue. It serves both as a repository of relevant documents on pastoralism and pastoral people’s livelihoods, and as a neutral forum for exchange and alliance building among pastoralists and stakeholders.At this meeting there will be representatives from East Africa (

 Rajasthan’s camel population keeps plummeting further, despite various programmes and initiatives from government. The reason for the decline are primarily lack of income from keeping herds, in addition to disappearance of camel grazing areas.We join the campaign carried this November by our member organisation LPP and the Raika pastoralists to address the office of the Chief Minister of