Category: Education and Creativity | Area of Effect: Cultural Heritage
The World Assembly,
Noting that advances in technology can render formerly common practices obsolete;
Realizing that some of these practices have existed for millennia and contain significant cultural value;
Understanding that foremost among these valued practices is the tending and herding of livestock;
Wishing to preserve the ancient art of herding from the winds of economics which push society toward monotonic mass agriculture;
Hereby
1) Defines, for the purposes of this resolution:2) Requires that all herding nations set aside a small area to use for herding.
- "herding" as the practice of using the natural resources of an area to raise and maintain a group of animals in that area for agricultural purposes;
- a "herding nation" as a member nation in which herding is culturally significant; and