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Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Forestry-Related Sectors

About this program Explore how gender equality, diversity, and inclusion drive sustainability and transformative change within forest-related sectors. What you’ll learn: Foster sustainability and facilitate transformative change In today’s evolving forest-related sectors, understanding and integrating gender equality, diversity, and inclusion (GEDI) is crucial for fostering sustainability and facilitating transformative change. This course delves into the...
2024 - The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

Audio
Agriculture’s Indigenous trailblazers – Episode 57

Over 80 per cent of our planet's biodiversity is found on the territories of Indigenous Peoples, who have been farming for generations while caring for forests, deserts, grasslands and oceans. By growing food sustainably, they are leading the way on transforming food systems.  On this episode, Indigenous leaders from Nepal, Mexico...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Blog article
Opinion: Restoring mountain ecosystems in the Himalayas is a global imperative

The Hindu Kush Himalaya faces a critical need for the restoration of its diverse ecosystems, underpinned by the indispensable stewardship of Indigenous communities and local efforts
Mountain ecosystems, including rangelands, wetlands, peatlands and both alpine and temperate forests, are unique habitats characterised by complex geography and rich biodiversity. These ecosystems are integral to the cultures and traditions of diverse Indigenous communities, providing essential goods and services such as food, water, climate regulation and cultural aesthetics. Despite their high economic...
2024 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Fact sheet
Brief Guide to Food Plants in the Magdalena Milpas Altas Region

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Guatemala
2024 - Food Plant Solutions

Journal article
Cost-effectiveness and income effects of alternative forest conservation policy mixes for the Peruvian Amazon

To reduce deforestation and mitigate climate change, the Peruvian government proposed and partially implemented incentive- and disincentive-based forest conservation policies, especially in the Amazon, where most of the country’s deforestation occurs. However, to date, little is known about the magnitude of the trade-offs between cost-effectiveness and welfare effects of such...
Peru
2024 - Science Direct

Blog article
Bhutan explores controlled burning of mountainsides

Reviving the traditional practice could protect pastureland ecosystems in the Himalayas from destructive climate change-driven wildfires
W ildfires have raged across the mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalaya this year. The Indian state of Uttarakhand lost over 1,500 hectares of forest while Nepal saw hundreds of forest fires in March and over a thousand in April. As frightening and destructive as these fires have been, for over 10,000 years, everywhere from the Central...
Bhutan
2024 - Dialogue Earth

Technical paper
Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the Public Procurement Market

Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean from International Experiences
This paper discusses the numerous ways that Indigenous peoples are excluded from or disadvantaged in public procurement markets, as well as international best practices regarding their inclusion in these markets. Five countries were identified as having relevant programs and initiatives to incorporate Indigenous peoples in the public procurement market: Australia,...
Australia - Canada - South Africa - United States of America
2024 - Inter-American Development Bank

Article
Heritage, Sustainability, and Coffee Drying in the Philippines’ Cordillera mountains

Born and raised amidst the lush landscapes of the mountain provinces of the Philipines, Daniel Jason Maches and Jaymar Garcia, two Indigenous youth, have always been connected to the land. They’ve witnessed their parents tend to the earth, cultivating crops that sustained their families for generations.  
Philippines
2024 - Slow Food

Blog article
Innovating tradition to protect ancient forests in Papua New Guinea

Supporting an Indigenous Peoples’ community to monitor forests with satellites and tablet
Besta Pulum cannot contain his excitement about the tablet computer he is holding in his hands. “When I was young, I never saw that kind of computer. Now I’m seeing it; I didn’t sleep [from excitement],” says the community chief, who reckons his age at around 60. Like his father before...
Papua New Guinea
2024 - FAO

Newsletter article
Europe/IYAFA: Future Reimagined

Participants from 16 European countries discussed the analytical framework for better governance of fisheries, employing imaginative tools for greater collaboration
The last of the series of IYAFA workshops was convened by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) in collaboration with Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) and Mulleres Salgadas (MuS). The regional workshop for Europe was held on November 13-16, 2023, in Galicia, Spain. With its participatory and...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Fact sheet
Programa de fortalecimiento de la gestión integral y sostenible de la biodiversidad y los bosques por parte de los Pueblos Indígenas y las comunidades locales en ecosistemas frágiles de los bosques secos del Chaco boliviano

Cartilla informativa del proyecto Gestión Integrada y Sostenible de la Biodiversidad y los Bosques del Chaco boliviano visualiza una información resumida del proyecto financiado por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial explica brevemente el contexto del chaco boliviano, los desafíos ambientales, el abordaje del proyecto: objetivos, resultados proyectados así...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Case study
Mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry

Country case studies
Forests harbour a large proportion of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity, which continues to be lost at an alarming rate. Deforestation is the single most important driver of forest biodiversity loss with 10 million ha of forest converted every year to other land uses, primarily for agriculture. Up to 30 percent...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Finland - Japan - Malaysia - Mexico - Peru - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2024 - FAO

Audio
Farms. Food. Future. Agriculture's Indigenous trailblazers

Over 80 per cent of our planet's biodiversity is found on the territories of Indigenous Peoples, who have been farming for generations while caring for forests, deserts, grasslands and oceans. By growing food sustainably, they are leading the way on transforming food systems. On this episode, Indigenous leaders from Nepal, Mexico...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Blog article
Cultivating Change: Indigenous Strategies for Sustainable Food Systems

Friday, August 9th was designated as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in December of 1994 by the UN General Assembly resolution 49/214. The specific date was chosen to commemorate the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Indigenous peoples occupy or use approximately 22% of...
2024 - Cambridge Core Blog

Book
Pueblos Indígenas y sector privado

Experiencias destacadas en América Latina
Pueblos Indígenas y las organizaciones del sector privado en América Latina. La pretensión es que este estudio avance hacia la incorporación de nuevas dimensiones que fortalezcan la incidencia de los Pueblos Indígenas en la transformación de estas relaciones, haciéndolas más simétricas y transparentes, en beneficio de la sociedad en su...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
Beyond Offsets: People and planet-centred responses to the climate and biodiversity crisis

Funding that works: increasing the focus on non-market, sustained and long-term thinking Resource mobilisation and appropriate funding for biodiversity and climate action are key challenges in meeting the global commitments made to address these issues. While huge attention is paid to the emergence of so-called ‘nature markets’ and financial instruments linked...
2024 - Rainforest Foundation UK

Article
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions

Motivation Communities across the global south use their rich indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) to predict weather events and climate hazards. ILK may assist efforts to address climate change challenges in Africa and make subsequent decisions regarding climate adaptation. Purpose The article documents evidence of the ILK's potential in reducing vulnerability to climate...
2024

Article
Empowering indigenous communities through coffee: The Story of Akha Ama

It was among the indigenous cultures of the mountains of Thailand, that the social enterprise idea was born. Hence Akha Ama Coffee, a coffee roastery and shop in Chiang Mai that only sells coffee from indigenous communities, with whom it trades directly. The manager, Lee Ayu, is not just a...
Thailand
2024 - Slow Food

Event
Presentación Estudio “Experiencias entre sector privado y pueblos indígenas en América Latina”

Nuestra región está habitada por más de 800 pueblos indígenas, los cuales están expuestos, en diferentes niveles, a una gran variedad de desafíos, impuestos por las sociedades modernas. Uno importante es la fuerte y creciente presencia de empresas privadas en sus territorios, las cuales, pese a la existencia de un...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
Seven Ways How Extension Can Mainstream Agrobiodiversity Conservation

The rapid decline in agricultural biodiversity globally poses a significant threat to the sustainability of food systems and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. This, coupled with climate change and its impacts, exacerbates the vulnerability of the food systems, especially for smallholder farmers. Several studies have pointed out that enhancing agrobiodiversity...
India
2024 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA)
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