A case of benign neglect

and inputs, rangeland health and improvement, and access to information and communication technology (ICT) and energy. Box 3 provides a full list of issues.

opinions of different actors on LIKT were collected through a survey.

Several issues fell outside the system boundary as they did not meet the three strategic principles described at the start of this section and therefore were not included in the gap analysis. However, many of these could be flagged for inclusion in a future global assessment of pastoralists and rangelands (see Box 4).

As far as possible, the study examined the inclusion of LIKT in the information sources reviewed and the

Box3:Typesof technical support addressed by the gap analysis sorted according to the system boundary (see Figure 2) Pastoral well-being • Health • Education • Vocational training • Exchange between communities

Rangelands grazier in South West Queensland, Australia. Dana Kelly

Box 4: Issues not addressed by the gap analysis • Spiritual satisfaction of pastoralists • Rituals and taboos • Presence/absence of freedom of choice • Autonomy • Ecological evolution of rangelands • Food-webs • Provision and regulation services of ecosystems in relation to production of oxygen, photosynthesis, atmospheric regulation, etc. • Some cultural services: totemic species, cultural landscapes • Production of some consumed goods from rangelands (clothes, building materials) • Animal welfare • Reproductive cycles and livestock breeding • Land-intensive livestock production systems • Some gender issues (reproductive rights, etc.) • Disease epidemiology and control • Biosecurity • Crime levels and access to the criminal justice system • Non-pastoral income activities

Nature of rangelands • Rangeland improvement • Biodiversity • Carbon capture • Water Rangelands benefit to people • Supplemental feed • Energy • Watershed management

Pastoral assets • Capacity-building • Veterinary services • Credit/loans • Market • ICT

Indirect driver • Institutional development

Pastoralist women from Fentale, Ethiopia mapping rangelands and rangeland resources. PRIME/Kelley Lynch/ flickr (CC BY-NC-SA)

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