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Rights-based approaches and Indigenous peoples and local communities: Findings from a literature review

kneditor — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:33:49 +0000

This preliminary assessment of rights-based approaches (RBAs) seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussions of RBAs for Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs). RBAs purposefully position the recognition of, respect for, and access to individual and collective rights as central to an initiative’s planning, design, implementation, process monitoring, and outcomes. In mainstream climate change, conservation, and development programs and policies, this means refocusing the relationship between “beneficiaries” and “implementers” to one of rights-holders and duty-bearers. RBAs hold growing discursive importance in relation to the rights of IPs and LCs in conservation and climate change spheres, including the agendas of international agencies. The growing interest in RBAs, and their inclusion in frameworks that will guide development, conservation, and climate projects over the next decade, is laudable. However, few reviews seek to understand how RBAs emerged and how they have been conceptualized. Such analysis is a necessary basis from which to advance discussions on the impact of RBAs and provide lessons to support them. In this review, our primary interest is the conception, conceptualization, and implementation of RBAs in forest-based initiatives, but we reviewed the wider scholarly and gray literature on RBAs in development, conservation, and climate action initiatives.

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Climate solutions: rooted in nature, driven by communities

kneditor — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:45:16 +0000

This is the decisive decade for climate action. To limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, we must halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and reduce them to zero by 2050.1 At the same time, we must help vulnerable communities around the world build resilience and adapt to the impacts of climate change which are already occurring.

The Rainforest Alliance is committed to helping the world meet both its climate mitigation and adaptation goals across farms, forests, and rural landscapes. Climate action at the Rainforest Alliance revolves around two core objectives: significantly reducing emissions in agriculture, forestry, and land use, while also fostering climate resilience and improved livelihoods for rural communities. The Rainforest Alliance approach puts rural communities and nature at the center of the solution. Explore how the Rainforest Alliance is working to build climate resilience and reduce emissions across farms, forests, and rural landscapes around the world, and discover how you can join us in our mission.

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The Karaawaimin Taawa: Insights from a biocultural assessment led by the Wapichan people in Guyana

kneditor — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:26:15 +0000

Highlights

Karaawaimin Taawa (Blue Mountain) in the Wapichan territory has strong cultural ties to the Wapichan people. It serves as a traditional fishing, hunting, and gathering ground and is a significant watershed for the Essequibo River.
Unsustainable land uses, especially irresponsible mining, are posing threats to the ecosystem and its services to the community. Aishalton community members decided to take action to preserve and administer Karaawaimin Taawa according to Wapichan customs.
The book presents the results, including insights into various taxonomic groups and the cultural significance of the mountains to the Wapichan people.

Unveiling indigenous wisdom through collaboration

The Karaawaimin Taawa book is a biocultural assessment resulted from the fruitful collaboration between community experts and scientists from the South Rupununi, and the SWM Programme in Guyana and around the world.

It draws attention to the region’s biodiversity and its cultural ties to the Wapichan people. The assessment’s findings will hopefully help highlight the unique role that communities play in safeguarding their lands and resources.

The SWM Programme is a seven-year initiative (2017-2024) implemented in 15 member countries of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), funded by the European Union with co-funding from the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) and the French Development Agency (AFD). It is being implemented by a dynamic consortium of four partners with expertise in wildlife conservation and food security: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

The SWM Programme in Guyana is being implemented by the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission in coordination with CIFOR.

Take a virtual journey around the SWM Programme

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Virtual Tours: Cameroon and Kenya

kneditor — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:29:23 +0000

About GLF Africa 2022

GLF Africa 2022: How to build an equitable, resilient food future brought together over 8,500 participants from 122 countries and featured 182 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders, and 68 incredible partners to explore African solutions to the global food crisis caused by climate change, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine.

Across 31 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, virtual tours, dialogues, performances, and a job fair, the digital conference explored ways to transform the future of food through healthy landscapes, equitable access to land, and shorter, greener value chains. Messages on social media rallied 26 million people around concrete ways for Africa to regain its food sovereignty.

Born and raised in the drylands of Kenya

Follow Charity Lanoi, a Kenyan dryland advocate and Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust (MWCT), who shares the message of drylands restoration as the habitat of keystone wildlife species. She also works to empower the Maasai women of Kuku group ranch economically through restoration-oriented projects. Charity also fights for the rights of the young Maasai women in her community.

Learn more about Charity Lanoi’s work as a Restoration Steward

Fighting land degradation in Yaounde, Cameroon

Follow the journey of Sunday Geofrey, GLFx Yaounde Chapter coordinator, who works to restore soil in his community. He is a passionate farmer and runs an Integrated Farm in Yaounde, where he cultivates vegetables and does poultry and piggery farming.

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Guardianes de la naturaleza, la juventud indígena recupera su espacio

Global Landscapes Forum WT — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 07:14:53 +0000

LAC Week

Del 27 de junio al 2 de julio de 2022, la Semana de la Juventud de América Latina y el Caribe del GLF 2022 exploró cómo los jóvenes de toda la región están tomando el asunto en sus propias manos al protestar contra las injusticias ambientales y sociales, desafiar el status quo, crear espacios seguros y restaurar activamente sus paisajes.

La semana contó con 30 jóvenes científicos, activistas y líderes comunitarios que brindaron información crítica sobre sus realidades sobre el terreno, sus luchas contra el extractivismo, la neocolonización, los derrames de petróleo y la deforestación, y las formas de recuperar espacio en sus paisajes.

Pueblos indígenas, protectores del territorio

Gracias a su profunda conexión con sus paisajes y sus prácticas y conocimientos ancestrales inmensamente diversos, comunidades indígenas, locales y tradicionales de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) son guardianes altamente efectivos de sus paisajes.

A pesar del creciente despojo de sus tierras y las amenazas a sus medios de vida, los pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales (PICL) continúan ejerciendo un rol vital como guardianes de la naturaleza, la cultura y el conocimiento. Aprenda en este Youth Daily Show más sobre la vida y las acciones de la juventud indígena en LAC que está recuperando su espacio para crear realidades justas para las personas y el planeta.

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Benki Piyãko: What can we learn from Indigenous peoples?

Global Landscapes Forum WT — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:09:31 +0000

GLF Amazonia 2021: As it happened

On 21–23 September 2021, the GLF Amazonia digital conference put forth one clear message: the protection of the Amazon is crucial for the survival of people and ecosystems globally. Titled “The Tipping Point – Solutions from the Inside Out,” the event featured the foremost scientists conducting researching the Amazon’s dieback, Indigenous leaders sharing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest satellite technology developers monitoring the biome, young people who will continue some of the world’s most ancient cultures and traditions, political leaders shaping the region’s policy, and new partnerships aimed at achieving environmental sustainability and secure rights for Amazonian peoples.

Sessions, plenaries and launches were viewed more that 15,000 times, and key messages reached 27 million on social media.

About Benki Piyãko

Indigenous Peoples aren’t scientists, but they’ve sustainably managed the Earth for generations, says Benki Piyãko, Ashaninka community leader and President of Yorenka Tasorentsi in Brazil. Piyãko calls on policymakers, scientists, youth and civil society to reshape humanity’s future through nature-based solutions and Indigenous wisdom.

Learn more about Yorenka Tasorentsi here.

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Gary Juffa: We are all Indigenous Peoples

Global Landscapes Forum WT — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:29:39 +0000

GLF Climate 2021: As it happened

Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate hybrid conference made a unanimous call for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis.

Attended by 4,386 digital participants from 145 countries, along with 481 in-person participants at the University of Glasgow, the event featured 400 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders.

Across 67 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches and climate talks, GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance – Frontiers of Change explored the potential of three key climate solutions: forest restoration, resilient food systems, and sustainable finance. Messages spread on social media rallied 41.34 million people around concrete ways to address the climate emergency as quickly as possible.

Gary Juffa on why we are all Indigenous Peoples

Has humanity become too disconnected from nature? It’s time for us to reevaluate our relationship with the planet, says Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro Province in Papua New Guinea.

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Can Multi-Stakeholder Forums Mediate Indigenous Rights and Development Priorities? Insights from the Peruvian Amazon

kneditor — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:45:09 +0000

The protection of Indigenous Peoples in isolation and initial contact (PIACI) is one of the most complex issues in the human rights and environmental agenda. The implementation of frameworks to protect PIACI involves addressing conflicts by the advance of public and private initiatives and interests in their territories. This article focuses on PIACI Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder forum (MSF) established in Peru’s Loreto region to contribute to protecting these groups. The MSF sought to address the long-standing delays in the creation of five Indigenous Reserves for PIACI in Loreto’s forests. The article argues that MSFs may be fruitful spaces to raise awareness of the rights of vulnerable peoples and coordinate the implementation of supporting actions, but only when participants hold a shared respect for those recognised rights. If not, MSFs may become spaces where powerful actors relegate recognised rights to a perspective among others.

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Securing Rights in Landscapes: Towards a Rights Based Landscape Approach

kneditor — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:29:17 +0000

The WWF-IUCN Shared Resources, Joint Solutions (SRJS) programme has played a pivotal role in operationalizing an inclusive landscape approach. Importantly, it has demonstrated that truly inclusive landscape approaches depend not only on the quality of collaboration between stakeholders, but also on the overall governance context – the policy frameworks, the level of devolution in planning, and the capacities of individual stakeholders to take up new roles and responsibilities that multi-stakeholder governance entails. Strengthening the role of civil society within this process, in particular the roles of youth, women, Indigenous Peoples and environmental activists, requires more than informal interaction and dialogue; it requires a strategy towards strengthening the position of such groups within the societies in which they operate. A rights based approach addresses the current and the desired roles and responsibilities of individuals, communities, companies, societies and states vis-à-vis each other, and vis-à-vis the environment that they share. It helps in raising the ambition of stakeholder dialogue and collaboration, setting benchmarks and developing checks-and-balances within the context of conservation and development, and should therefore be an intrinsic part of an inclusive landscape approach.

This document offers a deep-delve into existing landscape and rights based approaches, and the interfaces between them. Drawing on practical examples from the SJRS programme and elsewhere, it provides recommendations for how the two can be combined and operationalized to strengthen inclusivity and impact within WWF and IUCN’s work.

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The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems

kneditor — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:55:16 +0000

The global food system is unsustainable. Unmitigated, our current food systems will result in radically modified ecosystems, environments, coastlines, mountain tops, glaciers, water bodies and weather patterns, with consequences for human wellbeing and life on earth. More efficient, sustainable, resilient and equitable food systems are needed if we are to eliminate hunger and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit is a call for the review of the ways that food is produced, processed and consumed across the world – and summoning of solutions to transform current food systems to increase their sustainability, resilience and efficiency.

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems are well placed to contribute to global debates around food whilst priority should remain focussed on protecting and strengthening their food systems. Indigenous Peoples must be considered key allies in efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Zero Hunger, and develop more sustainable, resilient and equitable food systems post-2030.

This paper articulates the lessons that can be learned from Indigenous Peoples and advocates for their inclusion on the agenda of the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit.

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