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Solution /Innovation:

Pastoralist Knowledge Hub

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Organization:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

For more information:

Technical contact:
Gregorio Velasco Gil
Coordinator
FAO
Gregorio.VelascoGil@fao.org
Additional contacts:
Serena Ferrari
Pastoralism Specialist
FAO
Serena.Ferrari@fao.org
More info, related website links:

http://www.fao.org/pastoralist-knowledge-hub/news/detail/en/c/1272305/

http://www.fao.org/pastoralist-knowledge-hub/news/detail/en/c/1270235/
Categories:
Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Gender & equality, Other breed, Pig, Policy, Poultry, and Red meat
Has been implemented in:
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Challenge

There is a lack of data on pastoralism at global, regional and national level. Pastoralists are not always taken into account by national census, due in part to their mobile lifestyle. Further, their contribution to the national economies is often underestimated, because of the “informal” component of their economic activities and the high level of self-consumption.

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Solution

The Pastoralist Knowledge Hub, in collaboration with the French institute CIRAD and 3 pastoralist organizations (Réseau Billital Maroobé from West Africa, the National Federation of Pasture User Groups from Mongolia, and the Fundación Gran Chaco from Argentina), developed an innovative tool to collect data from pastoralist households, allowing to assess more exactly their real contribution to the national GDPs. This tool includes a methode to identify and reach pastoralist households, well-adapted questionnaires, IT devices to speed up the data collection, and last but not least close collaboration with CSOs.
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Impact

The tool allowed to assess the pastoralist economy and its contribution to the national economies, as it was used to collect data from 1 938 households in Mongolia, 1 010 in Chad, and 1 198 in Argentina. As well as demonstrating that pastoralist organizations had the potential to successfully manage data, it has been showed that pastoralism contributes to the national economies more than studies usually indicated, as, owing to specific characteristics, such as high levels of self-consumption, pastoralists’ contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was often underestimated. It emerged that pastoralism could contribute up to 27 percent to the GDP of Chad, and up to 12 percent in Argentina and Mongolia. The data also revealed wide inequalities in pastoralist contexts, resulting from deep inequities in resource access (land and natural resources, social services, infrastructures, etc.).
The tool is suited to be upscaled and adapted to any pastoralist context worldwide.

Category

Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Gender & equality, Other breed, Pig, Policy, Poultry, and Red meat

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