Kyrgyzstan's pasture management policies have been challenged by the limited capacity of its nascent, village-level committees and pasture user groups. The collapse of supporting Sovietera institutions that collected up-to-date information means policies have little connection with actual practice on the ground. As a result, rural Kyrgyz livelihoods have stagnated in Naryn province. A cybercartographic approach with user-generated data is implemented to visualize traditional practices on an online atlas. Participants identify pasture management, ecological monitoring, and medicinal plants as key categories of practices to be mapped. Both the produced atlas and
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