PASTORALISM HELP

Help pastoralist communities around the world preserve their livelihood, by providing them access to information and resources (e.g grass land, water, safe routes) to prepare and support their migration journey.

The objective of the project is to design a working prototype for a mobile application which provides pastoralists community with information on land monitoring: water availability, grassland, and assist communities in networking.

What is pastoralism?

•Over 500 million people on the planet

•Livelihood by breeding large herds (e.g. camels, lamas, yaks, sheep, goats, cattle, deer, horses)

•Central Asia has the largest share in the development of livelihood

•Pastoralists possess rare breeds of animals whose genetic characteristics are created over a millennia

Team members:

Rumiana Slavtcheva

Sam Cleary

Ognyan Dirimanov

Dimitar Plachkov

Aleksandar Matarov

Mihail Georgiev