ABSTRACT
The case studies presented in the previous chapters show a strong effort to recover pastoralist governance around the world. The 11 cases represent global work regarding new models of managing rangelands and other grass related ecosystems. The chapters describe varying situations, including the organization of land use and infrastructures of open-access nomadic pastoralism in Central Africa – with special attention to its relationship with wetlands and drylands, the bylaws of traditional land management systems in Kenya and the recovery of traditional land management systems. Elsewhere in Africa, case studies address modern co-operative systems in Morocco and the adaptation of land tenure systems to extensive cattle production in Botswana. Pastoralism in the Middle East is addressed in two chapters that cover different visions of the recovery the Hima system of land tenure in Lebanon and Jordan. An Asian perspective is analysed with the incorporation of Mongolia, one of the hotspots of pastoralism, with millions of hectares of state land dedicated to mobile pastoralism and facing a great challenge and transformation related both to political and climate change experienced in the last decades.
