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WOMEN & NOMADISM Challenges for a better future…. Mobile Pastoralists have been called “Custodians of arid and semi-arid lands” Their very migration protects biodiversity of non-equilibrium ecosystems such as arid and semi-arid lands
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Mobile Pastoralists have been called “Custodians of arid and semi-arid lands” • Their very migration protects biodiversity of non-equilibrium ecosystems such as arid and semi-arid lands • They know nature’s ways and have adapted themselves to them through centuries of co-existence and adaptive management
Despite their positive value for the land and the nation… • They are often discriminated against; • Their lands are often invaded by settlers; government and private sector interests alike; • They are coerced in various ways into sedentarisation; • Planners don’t know how to deal with the needs of mobile peoples; • They are allowed no role in determining their own development and charting their own future; • Both conservation and development programmes displace them from their ancestral lands; • Their customary institutions are systematically ignored & weakened; • They have little if any legal protection
Vital role of Iranian mobile pastoralist women in the communities (might be the same in every pastoralist communities) A.Economy • Farming • Animal husbandry • Dairy producers • Handicrafts • Other-sales, firewood collection • Combating land degradation
Vital role of Iranian pastoralist women … B. Socio-cultural • Housekeeping-Tent keeping • Children • Interrelationship within the community • Social capital production • Survival of culture and traditions • Women, a major source of information about nomadic livelihoods and lifestyle
Vital role of Iranian pastoralist women • Cultural and ethnic diversity • Religion, Traditions & beliefs • Policies governing the country in relation to sedentarisation
Vital role of Iranian pastoralist tenthold/ househole • Economic contribution of extensive nomadic household pastoral livelihood system to GDP of Iran • production of 40% of the meat, wool, leather, natural dies, medicinal plant… • mobile pastoralists are only 1,300,000 people for a total population of 70,000,000
Women and Migration • Packing • Guarding the herds • Collecting medicinal plants • Setting up the tents • Preservation of natural resources and biodiversity
CHALLENGES FOR A BETTER FUTURE • A: Decent Life • B: Good governance • C: Securing rights to land and natural resources • D: CCA project contribution and similar cooperation in other potential projects • E: Government should rethink transhumance • F: Government should rethink traditional rangeland management • G: Local traditional medicinal plants collection and inventory creation
Challenges for a Better Future….. • H: Pastoralist infrastructure services will facilitate mobility and help remove the barriers that push pastoralists to sedentarize(appropriate technologies in a appropriate institution) • I: Planners don’t know how to deal with the needs of mobile peoples; To prevent or reverse desertification, pastoralists can play the biggest role; • -J: Supporting pastoralists– and diminishing impact of unsustainable agriculture and urbanisation– should therefore constitute the lion’s share of resource mobilisation in UNCCD. • K: Exchanges of experiences and indigenous knowledge with international nomadic communities
