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Listen to Art of the Range Podcasts
Look for Grazingland Thesaurus Updates
Stop by the RP Booth at SRM
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Save the Dates for SRM
Joint Meeting: International Affairs Committee (1-2:30pm),
IYRP panel session (2:30-3pm), &
Outreach, Communication & Website Committee (3-5pm)
February 16, 2020
Room: Directors Row I
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Save the Date
Rangelands Partnership Annual Meeting
Tucson, Arizona
March 29 - April 1, 2020
More details coming soon
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RREA Webinar Update
By Sheila Merrigan
University of Arizona
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Strengthening RREA Programming Through Enhanced Connections: A Web-Based Conference Series
The goal of this project is to strengthen RREA programming through enhanced connections with colleagues across forestry and rangelands disciplines. To achieve this goal, a series of webinars will be held over the next two years. The RREA Webinar Project Team held an in-person meeting October 20-22 at which the topics for the webinars were finalized. Participants in this meeting included: Mark Thorne (PI), Barbara Hutchinson, Retta Bruegger, Kris Tiles, Martha Monroe, Adam Downing and Sheila Merrigan. Nine web conferences will be held focusing on the following topic areas: Citizen Science; Wildfire management; Youth; Invasive species/social media; Generational succession/urbanization; Non-traditional audiences; Peer to Peer; Forest & range food safety and security/agroforestry; and Climate change. All topics will be focused on highlighting innovative Extension programs within rangeland or forest systems.
There will be three webinars held in the Spring of 2020, three in the Fall of 2020, and three in the Spring of 2021. All webinars will be announced on social media and through various newsletters (including the Rangelands Partnership). They will be held via Zoom on a Thursday (exact dates to be determined). Registration will open a few weeks prior to each webinar. Each webinar will be recorded and an opportunity to be part of the conversation will be available via an online discussion forum.
More information on the first webinar will be forthcoming in the next RP newsletter!
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RP Members in the News
Spotlight on David Kruger
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JCPenney department stores started out as a small town Main Street store in rural communities and became a fixture of suburban shopping malls. In his book, J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture, David Kruger explores how the company, its stores, and founder James Cash Penney shaped rural America throughout the twentieth century.
Watch David discuss J.C. Penney on C-SPAN!
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International Report | November 2019
By Barb Hutchinson
University of Arizona
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Declaration - The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas (article). Priscilla Claeys & Marc Edelman editors. 24 October 2019. The Journal of Peasant Studies. A collection of interviews with those who participated in the negotiations at the UN. It looks back at 17 years of social movement struggles and analyzes a historic moment in the expansion and decolonization of human rights.
Toolkit - A new comprehensive rangeland management tool for dryland areas can help promote sustainable land use. Article by Judy Kimani and Mounir Louhaichi (CGIAR). Three institutions – the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – have been working together to develop a rangeland restoration toolbox that aims to compile the current state-of-knowledge on sustainable rangeland management practices in dry areas. The toolbox will help communities, policy makers and other development actors define and describe key sustainable rangeland management practices and also illustrate how they are to be used through scenarios from specific targeted regions.
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Pastoralist Knowledge Hub e-Newsletter - November 2019 issue. Includes articles: Recognize environmental contribution of pastoralists: Experts; Have Iran’s rangelands been shrinking over past decades? Herding through uncertainties - principles and practices.
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Article - Arjjumend, Hasrat. (2018). Nomadic Pastoralism at Crossroads: A Need for Restructuring the Paradigm and Policy of Rangeland Commons. “Fading fast all over the world, nomadic people have faced biases concerning their lifestyles and their symbiosis with rangelands. The nomadic grazing, which is helpful to biodiversity, not detrimental, in rangeland commons is perceived and advocated by deep ecologists, conservation administrators and policy makers as a threat to conservation of ecosystems. Consequently, both nomadic pastoralists and rangeland ecosystems have suffered a grim fate.”
Report - World Vision Kenya: Situation Report | August 1 - August 31, 2019. Key messages: People in need; Nutrition concerns; Refugee programming; and Food security outlook: According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) deteriorating food access and poor milk availability are pushing more households into Crisis (IPC Phase 3) in pastoral areas. Due to below-normal rangeland resource availability, livestock body conditions and value have declined. The decline in livestock prices coupled with rising staple food prices has caused the livestock-to-cereals terms of trade to fall, eroding household purchasing power. It is expected that decreased food and milk intake is driving atypically high malnutrition prevalence in children under five years of age.
Blog - The Land Portal blog provides a space for users to publish perspectives on issues of importance to the land governance community. Have you written a blog that you would like to share? Examples: What Works for Women? “This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda.
Blog - CGIAR post: How will climate change impact rangelands in the next few decades? Philip Thornton contributed a chapter to Grasslands and Climate Change, the latest volume of the Ecological Reviews series. In this post Philip tells us more about the chapter, which explains the impacts of climate change on open grasslands used for livestock grazing.
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Our Lands
By National Grazing Lands Coalition
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The biggest mistake we can make is to forget about the vast wilderness of ranch land that is preserved from the threat of industry and development. Ranchers are the keepers of the land and the benefits of their stewardship are known by all the living things that call it home. All we ask is that we be part of the conversation on how to solve climate change before places like mine are gone forever.
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