Other links
Interdisciplinary English newspaper on extensive livestock practices worldwide
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) is a global initiative that supports the empowerment of farmers so they can sustainably manage dryland resources.
Projet Européen de valorisation du patrimoine pastoral
Nomadic Peoples is an international journal. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects.
Photos :
Michaël Thevenin
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Turkey
Breeders SARIKECILER
Yörük tribe. south of Turkey.
Kurdish tribe, Southeastern of Turkey. Nomadic and semi-nomadic. Summer pasture in Bingöl Mountain and Serafettin Mountain
See also facebook of the tribe
Breeders KEJAN
Kurdish tribe, Southeastern of Turkey. Semi-nomadic. Summer pasture in Karaçadag mountain, between Sanli Urfa and Diyarbakir. internet website.
Breeders TIRKANLI
Turkmene tribe who speak kurmandji, from Siverek (Urfa). internet website.
Iraq and Kurdistan Iraq
Nature Iraq is an Iraqi Environmental NGO. Nature Iraq was created to protect, restore, and preserve Iraq’s natural environment and the rich cultural heritage that it nourishes.
Iran
Iranian cultural monthly in French
American documentary shot by Merian C. Cooper (director of the future King Kong) and Schoedsack in Iran in 1925. A watch again and again for these incredible scenes and epic (river crossing) a nomadic transhumance Bakhtiyari
Heureux comme un Bakhtiari
The Bakhtiari are an ethnic group of southern Iran. Some tribes are still nomadic pastoralists. They have been a brilliant study by the Ethnologue JP Digard in year 80.
See more : documentary "Heureux comme un Bakhtiari"
Georgia
Transhumance Touchs in Georgia
The Tusheti is a historic region of Georgia, World Heritage of UNESCO. Located on the borders of north-eastern Georgia is an area still inaccessible because without proper access road, but also a natural sanctuary and one of the bastions of the Georgian national soul where pastoral life (shepherds, sheep transhumance) remains very important. Shepherds Touchs still practice a semi-nomadic, sometimes with double migration (summer and winter).
See more : the work of Pierre Jeanmougin
Maison de l'Art du petit village de Kazbegi (nord de la Géorgie, dans le Caucase), où travaillent 3 à 5 femmes géorgiennes sur la filière laine (feutre, tissage, tricot, matelas et couettes).
France
Founded in 1984, the network of the French Association of Pastoralism brings together specialists from different professional families working in the field of pastoralism in France and abroad: farmers and shepherds, researchers, agricultural technicians, environmental managers, cultural agents, teachers and students.
This site is both an interactive link between all the mountaineers of the world, a place of exchange and sharing but also a center of resources and initiatives for all those interested in mountain areas and their populations.
Routes of the Orient is an interuniversity student association to promote research and encourage the dissemination of news in Eastern archeology through the publication of a scientific journal
Cardère édition publishes poetry, prose fiction, and scientific and technical literature, among other things on pastoralism.
(Centre for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development)
This association, very active on its territory, aims to launch and coordinate all likely to develop concrete actions to consolidate, sustain pastoral and forestry activities in the mountain area and to harmonize relations between owners and users of pastures.
She created the Film Festival Pastoralismes et Grands Espaces taking place every two years in the town of Sept Laux, near Grenoble.
Azerbaïdjan
Arménia
1972 Armenian documentary filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian. Enjoy the sight and sound work on snapshots of rural Armenia.
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Photographies de Michael Thevenin
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