A case of benign neglect

Information on impact of policies and laws

Economic issues such as income and marketing

North America

Global or multi regional

Europe

Asia

Paci c

Africa

South America

Other/NA

Information on voices of pastoralists

Environmental information such as rangeland health

Social issues such as health and education

Livestock information such as number of animals

Information on traditional knowledge and technologies

Management information such as rotational grazing systems

Figure 18: Respondents’ assessment of knowledge gaps for given topics

very large gap large gap medium gap small gap very small gap no information

In addition to collecting their own information, 42 respondentsalsousedinformationofotherorganizations. The respondents regarded information provided by pastoralist organizations as most relevant and were most confident in the quality of information from this source. Regarding information from community-based organizations and NGOs, the respondents regarded this ashighlyorveryhighlyrelevantanditsqualityasmedium- high.They perceivedgovernment anddonor information as somewhat relevant, but had less confidence in its quality. The respondents regarded information from the business sector of medium relevance and had medium- low confidence in its quality.

The respondents shared information they had on upcoming assessments, almost all of which were either national (for example, India’s Pastoral and Forest Inventory, Lesotho’s national rangeland baseline assessment, the United States survey of range and forestry extension personnel) or subnational (for example, annual surveys on rangeland conditions, household wealth and livestock numbers in the South Gobi region of Mongolia). They also noted that some globally relevant tools were being developed, such as the Land Portal and the Pastoral Development Toolkit. Furthermore, they reported that three global integratedassessmentswereunderway:anassessment

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