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RP Annual Meeting
Fargo, ND | May 19-22, 2019
Download the welcome video!
Sunday, May 19 (Welcome Reception), May 20-21 (Meetings @ NDSU), May 22 (Optional Tour)
Correction: The block of rooms at the Candlewood Suites hotel is open and ready for reservations. Book early if you plan to arrive before May 19th, as the area hotels are booking fast due to local events that week.
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New Publication
Jeanne L. Pfander & David D. Kruger (2019) Society of the Quarter: The Society for Range Management (http://rangelands.org), Journal of Agricultural & Food Information,
DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2019.1561143
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From the Executive Committee
By Livia Olson, Vice Chair
Kansas State University
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The RP Executive Committee is in the beginning stages of a full redesign and upgrade of the Global Rangelands/Rangelands West suite of websites. As part of this process, you will soon be receiving a survey that will provide important input to ensure the new websites reflect stakeholder needs, interests, and ease of use. Under consideration is a change in focus back to Rangelands West and local member resources. While it is expected there will continue to be a Global Rangelands component, this will likely involve a collaboration with our international partners. In addition, the activities and role of the Partnership will be more prominent on the new site. At the same time, we are working to do a better job of promoting the websites’ resources through social media.
Getting started on a website redesign involves asking and answering many questions which may be asked on the survey. Who are our users? What content would be of significant interest to them? What is the number one thing that we want people to know about rangelands? Is there content that should be on the site but that isn’t there now? How can state sites be more effective and easier to manage? How can we increase the visibility of related grant projects involving the Partnership? What is the best way to feature the Partnership? Along with these questions, there are numerous design and layout questions to be answered. In addition to the survey, the Executive Committee and the UA Technical team will be demonstrating progress and engaging all members with the redesign at the annual meeting in May in Fargo, ND.
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2019 Annual Meeting
Fargo, ND | May 19-22, 2019
By Nicole Juve
North Dakota State University
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Correction to the previous announcement: The block of rooms at the Candlewood Suites hotel is open and ready for reservations. Book early if you plan to arrive before the 19th, as the area hotels are booking fast due to local events that week, including the Fargo-Moorhead Marathon (May 13-18). Book under the group name Rangelands Partnership 2019 by 4/19/19 to receive the group rate of $94 plus tax.
The welcome reception will be held on the evening of Sunday, May 19 at the Candlewood Suites. The following two days of meetings will be held at North Dakota State University (rooms to be determined). The optional tour will be on Wednesday, May 22, and tentative plans are to drive out to Streeter, ND to visit the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center. Attendees will learn about research at the center related to livestock and late season grazing, cattle, birds, and pollinators. We might even get the chance to see a live prescribed burn.
For more information on rangelands related research at NDSU, check out our extension publications or some of our recently published Open Access research articles:
- Bendel, C. R., Kral-O’Brien, K. C., Hovick, T. J., Limb, R. F., & Harmon, J. P. (2019). Plant-pollinator networks in grassland working landscapes reveal seasonal shifts in network structure and composition. Ecosphere, 10(1), e02569. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.2569.
- Trubitt, R. T., Hovick, T. J., Gillam, E. H., & McGranahan, D. A. (2019). Habitat associations of bats in a working rangeland landscape. Ecology and Evolution, 9(1), 598-608. DOI:10.1002/ece3.4782.
- McGranahan, D. A., Geaumont, B., & Spiess, J. W. (2018). Assessment of a livestock GPS collar based on an open-source datalogger informs best practices for logging intensity. Ecology and Evolution, 8(11), 5649-5660. DOI:10.1002/ece3.4094.
- McGranahan, D. A., Hovick, T. J., Elmore, R. D., Engle, D. M., & Fuhlendorf, S. D. (2018). Moderate patchiness optimizes heterogeneity, stability, and beta diversity in mesic grassland. Ecology and Evolution, 8(10), 5008-5015. DOI:10.1002/ece3.4081.
For questions about the upcoming meeting, contact Nicole Juve, Agricultural Sciences Librarian, North Dakota State University, at nicole.km.juve@ndsu.edu. See you in May!
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2019 SRM Follow-Up
By Jeanne Pfander
University of Arizona
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The Rangelands Partnership had another successful showing at the 72nd SRM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Feb. 10-14. On Sunday afternoon, RP members participated in the Outreach, Communications & Website (OCW) Committee meeting where we were on the agenda to give updates on Partnership activities in the past year and plans for the coming year. We shared Nicole Juve’s excellent video invitation to Fargo, ND for the May 2019 RP Annual Meeting.
Several RP members had presentations in the program and posters on display during the Poster Sessions.
On Monday and Tuesday, Arizona RP members staffed the Rangelands Partnership trade show exhibit booth. The new “I ❤️ Grass” stickers designed by Amber Dalke were a big hit, as were the “conference survival kit” raffle drawings. Many people stopped to talk and ask questions and we have a number of individuals to follow up with on specific issues.
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Grazing the Fire
Poetry of Rangeland Science
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Grazing the Fire: Poetry of Rangeland Science is a collection of poems crafted and inspired by published scientific research papers, alongside visual art, in celebration of rangelands worldwide. The compilation was edited by the Partnership's Maria Fernandez-Gimenez and features poems by Retta Bruegger.
From the editor: To satisfy the reader’s curiosity about our process, here is the thumbnail version. In January 2017, I reached out to fellow scientists in the Society for Range Management (SRM), to ask if they would contribute one of their published research papers and pay a fee for their paper to be turned into a poem. All proceeds from these fees and 50% of book sales support scholarships for indigenous, international, and low-resource students to attend the SRM Annual Meeting. Thirteen researchers participated, providing 16 papers from subdisciplines such as rangeland ecology, policy, and social science.
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International Report | February 2019
By Barb Hutchinson
University of Arizona
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Update on IYRP Initiative: Exciting plans are well underway for activities at UNEA 4 meeting in Nairobi on 11-15 March 2019. A formal resolution has been submitted by the Africa Group seeking support for sustainable pastoralism, for reducing the global knowledge gap about rangelands and pastoralism, and for the IYRP. Also, a “Ministerial Breakfast on the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists” is to be held on 12 March 2019. The Breakfast is sponsored by Mongolia and Tanzania, with financial support from the Society for Range Management and assistance from the IYRP Support Group, presentations will focus on the global significance of pastoralism and rangelands; provide an overview of the IYRP initiative and links to the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030; discuss knowledge gaps about sustainability in rangelands and pastoralism; and outline a resolution from Kenya. At the same time, Mongolia is in the process of organizing a National Stakeholder’s meeting that is expected to help gain national level understanding about the IYRP effort; establish a National Support Group; and agree on the structure and main objectives of the Mongolian IYRP proposal for the 2020 COAG meeting. Watch for further updates in upcoming issues of the Newsletter and on the IYRP website.
Article: Matteo Caravani (2018) ‘De-pastoralisation’ in Uganda's Northeast: from livelihoods diversification to social differentiation, The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Article: Healthy Sustainable Diets for All: A view from Ethiopia. The report highlights the challenges to the world’s food production system. If we want to build a more sustainable global food system, we need a fuller appreciation of the diversity of those systems, including ones with livestock.
Article: Manzano P, White SR (2019) Intensifying pastoralism may not reduce greenhouse gas emissions: wildlife-dominated landscape scenarios as a baseline in life-cycle analysis. Climate Research 77:91-97.
Blog: The Land and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Blog Series is a joint initiative of the Land Portal Foundation, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s Thematic Network on Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources, and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) that provides new perspectives, encourages innovative thinking, incites healthy debate and provokes lively discussions on these issues.
Blog: From our collaborators in the Rangelands Initiative-Global (ILRI & ILC), read the short blog based on a regional conference by the African Section focused on finding answers to rangeland conflicts.
Interview: Ann Waters-Bayer talks about pastoralism with a mention of the importance of the IYRP initiative. The interview was in connection with PASTRES project. Watch the video.
Publications: Leveraging CTA's innovation experiences to inform next generation ACP agriculture. Drawn from experiences in implementing innovative agricultural approaches across the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, CTA and its partners have shared many stories. To identify 'actionable' knowledge on youth, digitization, gender and climate, CTA recently hosted four workshops to document insights, experiences, and lessons that can be more widely applied. Watch video interviews and reports with participants or download technical briefs and media stories from the project.
Publication: The publishing arm of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) is a joint ACP-EU institution active in agricultural and rural development in ACP countries. Its mission is to advance food and nutritional security, increase prosperity and encourage sound natural resource management. CTA publishes and co-publishes printed, electronic and/or multimedia information products on all aspects of agriculture and rural development, including use of big data to improve farming systems. CTA Publications Catalogue includes about 600 titles in multiple languages, most of which can be downloaded. https://publications.cta.int/en/
Report: UN Habitat. 2018. Land and conflict: Lessons from the field on conflict sensitive land governance and peacebuilding. Global Land Tool Network.
Webinar: The webinar Realizing women’s land rights in Africa, co-hosted by numerous organizations, will feature experiences from several grassroots initiatives and highlight how they fight for women’s improved access to and control over land and other natural resources and to scale up women’s land rights. It will take place on February 28 from 9:00-10:30 EST. Register now! Panelists will address the following questions: (1) Why do women’s land rights remain an issue with so much attention focusing on it? What went wrong?, (2) What are good practices in achieving success towards women’s land rights and what – according to your own perspective – made these initiatives and strategies successful? (3) What is needed next to scale up these approaches and to move the women’s land rights agenda forward?, and (4) What is the message to policy makers to scale up these approaches?
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Our Farms, Our Future Podcast Series
New Episode: Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide
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The Our Farms, Our Future podcast was created to bring people together for important conversations about our food system, and to share the knowledge of agricultural professionals with a wider audience. Each episode features two members of the sustainable agriculture community in conversations about their successes, challenges, fears, hopes, lessons learned and projects to come. You can follow this series or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
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