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Grasslands store approximately 33% of terrestrial carbon.
Pastoralists protect them with traditional practices proven to contribute to ecosystem restoration. But while the people who live on rangelands safeguard our planet, they rarely have secure rights to land and resources.
Pastoralists are often politically marginalised. They also often live and work within inadequate land and resource governance systems that do not take the complexities of pastoral land use -- usually communal -- into account.
That's why we're working with members to promote policies for healthy and sustainable rangelands and toprotect the rights of pastoralists. Securing their land rights is not only good for them, it is good for our planet.
Pastoralists fight for land rights
Explore our pastoralist-led people's organisations
Restoring pasturelands in KYRGYZSTAN
A Common Right In Mongoloia
Get to know the "friendship community", part of 200-500 million nomadic custodians that take care of our planet, managing rangelands that cover a quarter of the world's land surface.
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"We survive off this land through livestock and agriculture" -Ochwee Zakaria, village head
Meet Ochwee ZakariaSupporting communities of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers to secure land and sustainably manage resources
25 April 2016
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