Pastoralists are the often unrecognised movers and shakers of the agroecology movement, They are managing and maintaining biodiversity across vast tracks of land and resisting top-down policies that threaten their way of life. In this newsletter, you will find some of the highlights from the December 2016 issue: ‘Listening to pastoralists’ -# Migrant shepherds sustain pastoralism in the Mediterranean -# Preserving Bedouin heritage -# Interview: “Pastoralist women have the capacity to lead” -# Yarns from the desert -# Find the newsletter here