Healthy Rangelands, Flowing Rivers: a Nature-Based Solution to Water Security in Central Asia22 August | 8:30 – 10:00 (AST GMT+3) | MET-02
UNCCD COP17 From Rangelands to Mountain Landscapes: Community-Led Restoration Across Asia Date: 21 August 2026Time: 18:00–19:30Venue: MET-04Organized by the Rural Development Fund, Kyrgyzstan, Host Organization of the ILC Asia Ecosystems Restoration Platform. Across Asia, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, pastoralists, and smallholder family farmers are restoring degraded ecosystems through community-led governance, traditional ecological knowledge, sustainable pastoralisms, agroecology, participatory mapping, and […]
UNCCD COP17Grounding the Rio Conventions: Sustainable Land Management as a Pathway to Methane Mitigation21 August | 13:00 – 14:00 | TNC PavillionOrganised by Ambition Loop Event overview Rangeland grazing systems can account for up to 70% of rangeland farms’ methane emissions, but data on different production systems, particularly mobile pastoralism, remains limited. This gap points […]
UNCCD COP17 Side EventCo-management of Rangelands and Conservation of Territories of life by local communities: IYRP processes and challenges20 August | 16:30 -18:00 | Room 170 Green Zone Background The International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 was and continuing as important processes to influence the global narrative of pastoralism and rangelands conservation. It has […]
UNCCD COP17The Right to Movement: Measuring Pastoralist Land Tenure Security in Mongolia20 August | 16:30–18:30 | Blue Zone, Mongolia House Organizers: International Land Coalition (ILC), General Authority for LandAdministration, Geodesy and Cartography (GALAGC), Implementing Agencyof the Government of Mongolia; National Land Coalition of Mongolia (MLMA,MNFPUG, Center for Policy Research, JASIL, NAMAC); with support fromFAO, the Huairou […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and its member organizations are participating in the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17), being held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. At COP17, AFA is bringing the voices and experiences of small-scale family farmers to global […]
The municipality of Jaro in the province of Leyte is home to the Campagal Bangon Producers and Agri-Tourism Association (CBPATA), a community where farmers are demonstrating that agriculture can take a different path. Through CBPATA, local farmers are embracing agroecology and natural farming practices as a way to build healthier farms, strengthen livelihoods, and protect […]
For more than a decade, the Eeltei Baylag Cooperative Network has been working with Mongolia’s nomadic livestock herders to develop a more sustainable cashmere industry, one that protects the country’s rich herding traditions while creating better opportunities and benefits for cooperative members. Cashmere begins with the herders and their animals. Through sustainable livestock management, Mongolian […]
