Pastoralism and action for sustainability: Participatory planning for the governance of extensive grazing in Turkey
- Project status
- Ongoing
- Programmes
- ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2024: Environmental Resilience and Climate Action Projects
- Departments
- International
Many cast livestock as the big villain of climate change but fail to differentiate between low-impact extensive and highly-polluting intensive systems. With half the world’s land surface made up of extensive rangelands, a major global challenge is to develop resilient livestock systems that reduce climate impacts. Conceptualising resilience as emerging through bottom-up, transformational change processes, the project will adopt a participatory action-research approach, co-constructing solutions for addressing climate adaptation and mitigation. In two pastoral settings in Turkey and through transdisciplinary interactions in arts-based workshops, participatory rangeland management and climate action plans will emerge, informed by social and ecological research and framed by vernacular understandings of resilience. In both sites, these plans, articulated in the form of artefacts created by pastoral communities, will be shared at a pastoralism-focused festival and later becoming foci for wider policy engagement around Turkey’s emerging climate-livestock policies and the UN International Year for Rangelands and Pastoralism.
Research Team: Professor Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies; Dr Mehmet Fatih Tatari, Bilkent University