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transhumance routes held in trust for pastoralists in Senegal’s Férlo (Ly and
Niamir-Fuller 2005).
Goal 2 calls for promoting sustainable agriculture. Increasing the sustainability
of livestock production through pastoral mobility, improvement of degraded natural
rangelands, rebalancing of incentives and subsidies to support sustainable livestock
production, and reducing the environmental impacts of confined livestock systems
can substantially reduce the negative footprint of the livestock sector. It can also
make pastoral organic products more competitive in national, regional, and global
markets, thus helping many countries to achieve Target 17.11 (to double the least
developing countries’ share of global exports by 2020).
There are many countries where pastoral production is a major share of the
national GDP. For example, the share of livestock in agricultural GDP is above 50%
in Mauritania, Kenya, and Kazakhstan, and well above 80% in Mongolia.
1
Livestock
constituted 40% of global agricultural GDP between 2005 and 2014 (ILRI 2018).
Goal 8, Target 8.1 calls for countries to sustain GDP per annum growth at 7% or
more. Such countries cannot afford to ignore their pastoral populations.
Goal 10, Target 10.7 while focusing on migration issues does include the term
“mobility of people” which some have interpreted to include mobility of pastoralists
within country and internationally. For example, FAO calls for enacting migration
policies that “takes into account people moving with their animals” (FAO 2018).
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has established
International Transhumance Certificates to improve the security of transboundary
movement of pastoralists (ECOWAS 2017).
Other SDG targets offer indirect guidance. For example, Target 8.2 calls for
achieving higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, “particularly in high-value added and labor-intensive sectors.” Pastoralism is thought
to benefit around 1.3 billion people along the value chain worldwide (Ouedraogo
and Davies 2016). Countries that seriously implement the SDGs will have to give
equal attention to farmers as to pastoralists, fisherfolks, and other land users
(Target 2.3). Furthermore, countries are committed to better disaggregation—
whether in their statistics (specifically showing pastoralists as a group) or in their
policies (specifically monitoring the impacts on pastoralists).
SDG Indicators
Monitoring is a very important tool, not only for providing feedback on the impact
of actions and for understanding temporal dynamics of system change, but more
significantly, for focusing attention on an issue. Ensuring that indicators are appropriately disaggregated can encourage (even require) governments to pay attention to
1 Data extracted and analyzed from FAO Stats (2016). www.fao.org/faostat.
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transhumance routes held in trust for pastoralists in Senegal’s Férlo (Ly and
Niamir-Fuller 2005).
Goal 2 calls for promoting sustainable agriculture. Increasing the sustainability
of livestock production through pastoral mobility, improvement of degraded natural
rangelands, rebalancing of incentives and subsidies to support sustainable livestock
production, and reducing the environmental impacts of confined livestock systems
can substantially reduce the negative footprint of the livestock sector. It can also
make pastoral organic products more competitive in national, regional, and global
markets, thus helping many countries to achieve Target 17.11 (to double the least
developing countries’ share of global exports by 2020).
There are many countries where pastoral production is a major share of the
national GDP. For example, the share of livestock in agricultural GDP is above 50%
in Mauritania, Kenya, and Kazakhstan, and well above 80% in Mongolia.
1
Livestock
constituted 40% of global agricultural GDP between 2005 and 2014 (ILRI 2018).
Goal 8, Target 8.1 calls for countries to sustain GDP per annum growth at 7% or
more. Such countries cannot afford to ignore their pastoral populations.
Goal 10, Target 10.7 while focusing on migration issues does include the term
“mobility of people” which some have interpreted to include mobility of pastoralists
within country and internationally. For example, FAO calls for enacting migration
policies that “takes into account people moving with their animals” (FAO 2018).
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has established
International Transhumance Certificates to improve the security of transboundary
movement of pastoralists (ECOWAS 2017).
Other SDG targets offer indirect guidance. For example, Target 8.2 calls for
achieving higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, “particularly in high-value added and labor-intensive sectors.” Pastoralism is thought
to benefit around 1.3 billion people along the value chain worldwide (Ouedraogo
and Davies 2016). Countries that seriously implement the SDGs will have to give
equal attention to farmers as to pastoralists, fisherfolks, and other land users
(Target 2.3). Furthermore, countries are committed to better disaggregation—
whether in their statistics (specifically showing pastoralists as a group) or in their
policies (specifically monitoring the impacts on pastoralists).
SDG Indicators
Monitoring is a very important tool, not only for providing feedback on the impact
of actions and for understanding temporal dynamics of system change, but more
significantly, for focusing attention on an issue. Ensuring that indicators are appropriately disaggregated can encourage (even require) governments to pay attention to
1 Data extracted and analyzed from FAO Stats (2016). www.fao.org/faostat.
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