Hello everyone! it is minus 23C in Buffalo, Wyoming!

Welcome to a real winter! I come originally from Winnipeg, so I know that well - down to -40°C - but that is a long way from Wyoming.

no yak in the IYRP logo! 🙁

the Sound is very low

click on the arrow next to the mute/unmute button; select audio settings; from there you can increase the volume

increase the scroll bar on the "Output Audio"

thank you

Oh, the sound quality is not good at all

anybody else having Problems with the Sound. It is staggered and hard to understand

I cant hear either

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Sound not clear

The problem is not the volume. All sounds are muffled so it’s hard to hear and understand.

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Yes, it is so faint that it is almost impossible to understand - even at highest volume.

Since the begining, sound is very bad

Sometimes you need to share your computer's audio as well when sharing the screen

I think from the zoom settings, the video sound should be shared from the screen as internal sound instead of external sound. I think there must be a setting in the options section..

I cannot hear it at all.

That is much better - thank you!

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OK sound is much better now. You all solved it!

bonjour tout le monde

Please can everyone else please mute yourselves. thank you

Bonjour Said!

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Many thanks Bulgamaa for great presentation! :D

UPDATE : As of today, 75 countries are supporting the IYRP 2026 resolution, of which 22 are formally co-sponsoring it. Please see https://iyrp.info for more updates

I think IRC/IGC 2008 was in Inner Mongolia province of China?

yes in Inner Mongolia, China

bonsoir, il y a pas le français ? car nous ne comprenons pas l'anglais nous...Aboubacrine , RPPS

Il n’ya pas le français. Ca sera demain pendant l’atelier.

We do not have interpreters for this symposium, only for the two workshops on Wednesday and Thursday.

Somehow, Indian representation in IYRP is very low, although India has vast area under rangelands. I as org. sec. of IGC 2015 tried to atract world attention

The Indian IYRP supporters are active; see https://www.iyrp.info/south-asia

Bonjour les collègues francophones, on est navré, aujourd'hui l'interprétation simultanée en français n'avait pas été prévue. Mais pour les ateliers de demain 23 et après-demain 24 ce sera disponible

Ok pas de problèmes, alors merci

If you have comments or questions, please feel free to put them in the Chat. Thank you!

The pdf. of the presentation on the 12 global themes is available on the SRM Conference website in the folder for the Workshops on 23rd and 24th Feb. Please do download it and share it widely. Get involved with your regional IYRP support group and discuss these issues in more detail too!

can you please put the website address here in the char?

Can we watch these presentations later on YouTube or somewhere else?

Greetings from Kampala City, Uganda. This paper has shed better light about livestock and GHG

We plan to make the presentations available through the IYRP website - https://iyrp.info

Thank you

The presentation will be posted on the SRM page on the IYRP website: https://www.iyrp.info/srm-international-affairs-committee-symposium-global-rangelands-iyrp

Thank you Ann

As background to what Ian has mentioned now see also 'Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission onhealthy diets from sustainable food systems' www.thelancet.com Published online January 16, 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788-4

Excellent presentation Ian, thankyou

Please also visit the following publication for some rangeland Maps of sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable rangeland management in Sub-Saharan Africa - Guidelines to good practice. https://www.wocat.net/library/media/174/

In addition to the rangeland map, there is also an ongoing exercise in mapping pastoralist groups worldwide: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/pastoralists_563977#5/4.193/50.625

where can this report presented by Fiona can be found?

We will find out and let you know. I will send a message to Fiona now to ask her where you can access it.

Or you can ask her directly: F.Flintan@cgiar.org

The Carbon Benefits Project (CBP) provides tools for agriculture, forestry and land management projects to estimate the impact of their activities on climate change mitigation (carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions). Please visit https://banr.nrel.colostate.edu/CBP/

This is Fiona's WhatsApp number if you want to contact her: WhatsApp: +39 349 6462017.

thank you.

This is Elly Sabiiti, Busitema University,Uganda,East Africa.

Rich are you in contact with the team of Eleanor Milne at CSU?

for the Carbon Benefit Project tool https://banr.nrel.colostate.edu/CBP/

Hi Rima - I've worked a little bit with Eleanor, but haven't worked directly on the CBP.

https://agsci.source.colostate.edu/csu-soil-scientists-to-co-lead-19-million-project-on-soil-health-farmer-well-being/

All presentations can also be found on the SRM virtual meeting site within this Schedule item.

https://artofrange.com/episodes/aor-78-one-study-rule-them-all-3m-soil-health-research-jeff-goodwin-derek-scasta

My presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/78rk48rj1i0jaf8/conant.pptx?dl=0

I have gone to the SRM side but am not seeing the presentations already posted. Any suggestions?

The presentations from this Symposium will be uploaded later (after this meeting) into the IYRP website: https://iyrp.info

I must have misunderstood; I though someone said they were already up on the site. TY

It was written: on the SYMPOSIUM website.

Excellent talk Ann!

So glad that the important issue of climate justice related to green energy development. Thank, Ann and Hussein, for the terrific talk. Is there a link to your report that you can post?

The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung is publishing the report and it should be out next month. I will share the link with you all when it comes out.

Wonderful talk, Sarah. I have always been troubled by the additionality issue with PES that fails to reward existing good stewards.

Did anyone catch the date on the article in The Economist?

The Economist cover is from April 2005. Yes, a bit dated now!

It was fairly soon after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment if I recall correctly

Thanks, Sarah. I also didn’t catch the direct reference to your paper. Can you share that?

Excellent talk Sarah! Fascinating work!

The UNEP ‘Benign Neglect’ report that looks at filling knowledge gaps on rangelands and pastoralism, also has a survey of how much OECD, GEF and a few other donors are financing projects that benefit rangelands and pastoralists internationally. Their conclusion is that it is a relatively tiny part of their portfolios. Since publication of that report, these donors have started to take a second look at projects relevant to rangelands and pastoralists. So please keep on sending in project proposals! Benign Neglect report can be found here: Website for Gap analysis report finalhttps://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/case-benign-neglect-knowledge-gaps-about-sustainability-pastoralism-and-rangelands

Actually I enjoyed this presentation a lot, thank you

Another grant program from USDA/NIFA, although this is for outreach and extension, is the Renewable Natural Resources Act National Focus Funds. There is an RFP out now due at the end of March - https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/renewable-resources-extension-act-national-focus-fund-projects-rrea-nff

Great talk David! What journal was the Bennett 2016 paper published in that you reference?

This talk highlights why rangeland researchers would benefit from engaging more with the literature from Political Ecology and Environmental History, which often uncover the roles of narratives and how they are deployed to advance and maintain particular power structures. Another example from some time ago is The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment (1996) edited by Leach and Mearns.

Great talks everyone!

Great Talk David!!! There’s also always Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac!!!

Thank you, everyone for great presentations!I'm looking forward to re-watching them and sharing them - the information needs a wider audience!

Pity we don't have the "reactions" tab to clap

A question for David. What has more power, a positive narrative promoting a universal good, or a negative narrative that may point to a real and negative event or result, albeit possibly at a localized scale.

We only have 44 listeners now; how do we get the message out to a much wider audience?

Great comment David!

Thanks Robert! Great comment!

Ruminants are essential!Humanity's existential crisis is too little animals source food.Ruminant animal agriculture on rangelands is the only form of agriculture that can share the ecosystem.

and Daniel we do not need to convert the already converted

Excellent comment Maryam!

I I wanted to thank Ann Waters-Bayer for her talk. Consider dung as a green energy source harvested by pastoralists!!

The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) is operational part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Technology Commission and co-hosted by the UN Environment in collaboration with UNIDO. Suported by 11 partner organizations its mission is to catalyze the development and transfer of climate technologies for energy-efficient, low carbon and climate resilient development. I am currently involved in a CTCN project in Mongolia

Thank you Ann! Well-stated.

Thanks, Ann!

This is the information for accessing the SRM conference site for the presentations: Anyone with access to the virtual SRM meeting site can click here:https://my.eventcadence.com/dl/event/813723/3985000000Individuals should click the “add” button, that will then show all of the presentations when they scroll down.

From a researcher perspective, both when I am working in my own country or somewhere else, there is no substitute for developing long-term, reciprocal relationships where communities are co-researchers not research "subjects" or project "beneficiaries". Then we can develop proposals together based on shared understanding and relationships of trust. Very different from short-term consultancies or 2-3 year research projects.

Thank you very much for this series of very interesting inputs. Widh you a nice evening.

Thank you all! Great talk

What about David’s comments?

We hope you can join us tomorrow!

Big thanks to Layne, the SRM IAC, other organizers and speakers for an excellent symposium!

Very well organized!

Thank you very much for the great talks and rich discussion!! See you next time!

Unfortunately will not be able to join the workshops. But hope to receive some 'minutes' of these workshops

thanks Layne for the great moderation