Déclaration de Mera: Rassemblement mondial des femmes pastoralistes
Déclaration de Mera: Rassemblement mondial des femmes pastoralistes

(Senior) Campaigner for sustainable agriculture Job - February 10, 2011 As the financial and food crises continue to loom, it is vital to defend our rights for a healthy food. Greenpeace...
From the EC's External Cooperation Programmes' Capacity4Development website Political Economy Assessment Tools: A New Approach? Dr Marquette, who is a Senior Lecturer in Governance at the International Development Department of the UK’s...
Pastoralism, notably mobile pastoralism, is the most viable form of production and land use for most of the world’s fragile drylands. Yet pastoralism is under increasing legal, economic, social and...
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Tenure reflects the power structure in society. Because land and other natural resources are central to social and cultural identity and economic wealth, tenure arrangements in a society develop in...
Nomadism: An economic and social system based on pastoralism with a non-sedentary way of life. Nomads migrate with their herds taking their household and extended family with them. They follow...
I have created a slide show with faces from the Global Gathering of Women Pastoralists. More to come. [slideshare id=6260343&doc=facesfromtheglobalgatheringofwomenpastoralists-101220092203-phpapp02]...
Governance is the process of governing. It is the way in which society is managed and how the competing priorities and interests of different groups are reconciled. It includes the formal institutions of government but also informal arrangements. Governance is concerned with the processes by which citizens participate in decision-making, how government is accountable to its citizens and how society obliges its members to observe its rules and laws. Governance comprises the mechanisms and processes for citizens and groups to articulate their interests, mediate their differences, and exercise their legal rights and obligations. It is the rules, institutions, and practices that sets limits and provides incentives for individuals, organizations and firms.To this definition we can also add the rules and practices that set limits and incentive for governments.