Advance Certificate (Online) | P-001

Pastures, Pastoralism and Rangeland Governance

Course Director: Dr. Hasrat Arjjumend

Module 3: Rangeland Governance and Policies

[Online 1 Week; 18 Study Hours]

Instructor: Dr. Hasrat Arjjumend

Field Practitioners: Dr. Hijaba Ykhanbai and Mr. Oleksandr Koval

Dear Students,

We welcome you to the Module 3. It is great that you have completed the Module 1 [Pastures and Grasslands] and Module 2 [Transhumance and Pastoralism]. Module 3 encompasses “Rangeland Governance and Policies”, which consists of 6 units as under:

• Unit 3.1: Problems and Issues Challenging the Rangelands and Pastoralism
• Unit 3.2: Enclosure, Fragmentation and Conversion of Rangelands
• Unit 3.3: Governance of Pastures and Grasslands: Role of Local Institutions
• Unit 3.4: Improving Governance of Pastoral Lands
• Unit 3.5: EU Common Agriculture Policy and Rangeland Governance
• Unit 3.6: World Movements and Rangelands Governance

We hope you will enjoy reading and attending this Module 3. It is designed in a way that you will switch over to the pastureland issues from the imperative phenomenon of pastoralism and livestock mobility. From a common sense, we can quickly correlate the importance of rangeland pastures, since the domestic animals need grazing resources and those resources exist in rangeland pastures. So, to sustain and survive the livestock economy, not only the ecological health of rangelands is essential, herders’ access to such pasturelands is equally critical. Governance, polices and laws – international, national and sub-national – form a base for such accessibility and availability. We will deal with governance and policies regulating the rangeland pastures in international and national contexts in this Module 3.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unit 3.1: Problems and Issues Challenging the Rangelands and Pastoralism

3.1.1 Participatory Exercise in Forum P-001
3.1.2 Exclusion of Nomadic Pastoralists and Policy Asymmetry

Unit 3.2: Enclosure, Fragmentation and Conversion of Rangelands

3.2.1 Understanding the Enclosure of Commons and Grazing Pastures
3.2.2 Implications of Enclosure of Commons
3.2.3 Use of Legal and Policy Instruments to Enclose the Lands 
3.2.4 Fragmentation and Conversion of Rangelands
3.2.5 Impacts of Fragmentation and Conversion

Unit 3.3: Governance of Pastures and Grasslands: Role of Local Institutions 

3.3.1 Dissecting the Incorrect Narratives
3.3.2 Case Study: Rangeland Governance and Management in Mongolia
3.3.3 Role of Local Institutions in Rangeland Governance

Unit 3.4: Improving Governance of Pastoral Lands

3.4.1 Importance of Mobility for Pastoral Land Governance
3.4.2 Improving Legislation and Policies 

Unit 3.5: EU Common Agriculture Policy and Rangeland Governance

3.5.1 Provisions under Common Agricultural Policy
3.5.2 CAP Implementation Cases

Unit 3.6: World Movements and Rangelands Governance

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