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Peru's Potato Park
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Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
A recent workshop hosted by IIED and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew explored how the way Indigenous Peoples grow and consume food holds answers to the world’s broken food system
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Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
A new briefing examines the importance of biocultural heritage territories, whose communities are custodians of biodiversity
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Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
2020 is being hailed as a ‘super year’ for nature, with a series of major international events looking at how we can stop the decline of wildlife and natural ecosystems. Krystyna Swiderska argues that saving biodiversity can’t succeed without working to save indigenous cultures
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Biocultural heritage landscape to be established in Eastern Himalayas
New biocultural heritage landscape will protect rich biodiversity and indigenous identities
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Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
The International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples has called for support and legal protection for biocultural heritage landscapes and community conserved areas following an event in Peru
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Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
A visually stunning photofilm that profiles three biocultural heritage terriritories and their role in biodiversity conservation and locally determined development is now available in Spanish. Biocultural heritage territories protect indigenous and traditional land tenure and use land management to preserve fragile ecosystems and promote locally determined patterns of development
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Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
The Sustainable Development Goals have been agreed, but for mountain communities around the world this action can't come quickly enough. Climate change is already here, threatening their food security, nutrition and livelihoods
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'Guardians of Diversity' film in Spanish and Chinese
A film documenting an international meeting of indigenous farmers in Peru's Potato Park to discuss adaptation to climate change is now available in Spanish and Chinese
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Return of potatoes from CIP to Andean farmers proves critical for climate adaptation
Peru's farmers are able to access a greater diversity of potato varieties for climate adaptation, thanks to the continued work of a ground-breaking agreement between CIP, ANDES and the Association of the Potato Park communities
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New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
IIED has released a new photofilm profiling indigenous biocultural heritage territories and the role they play in development, conservation and adaptation
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Film documents visit to "Guardians of Diversity" in the Potato Park
A new 15-minute film documents a gathering of indigenous farmers from mountain communities around the world to exchange knowledge and ideas about protecting biodiversity and culture as the basis for adapting to climate change
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A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
Traditional knowledge combined with the latest science could increase food production while safeguarding biodiversity, new research shows
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Indigenous farmers from Peru, China and Bhutan agree to share seeds for climate adaptation
In the spirit of the International Year of Family and Peasant Farming, indigenous mountain farmers from China, Bhutan and Peru have agreed to share seeds in an effort to cope with global climate change
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Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities
Cultural and spiritual values of indigenous peoples and climate change will be the focus of an international event in the Potato Park, Cusco, Peru
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Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
Indigenous knowledge is innovative, not static. Protecting it will help food security.
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PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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Food waste: can grassroots initiatives stop us throwing good food in the bin?
Almost half the food the world produces is thrown away. Reducing food waste is an economic, ethical and environmental challenge which grassroots initiatives are starting to address.
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Voices and flavours of the earth: Food sovereignty in the Andes
Voices and flavours of the earth: Visualising food sovereignty in the Andes is a multimedia publication that uses video, audio, images and text to describe how indigenous communities are drawing on their knowledge and cosmovisions to rethink the priorities and governance of food and agricultural research in the Andean Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru.
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Learning to value Mother Earth
Making informed choices about eating foods that have less of an environmental impact is increasingly important. We can all learn lessons from local communities living in the Andes
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How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
As delegates gather for the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity this photostory looks at why two communities in India and Borneo have developed community protocols.
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Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level
Two safeguards for communities' rights to resources can help implement the Nagoya Protocol.
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PLA 65 - Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
Indigenous people and local communities have received few benefits from the commercial use of the wealth of traditional crops and medicinal knowledge they have developed.
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PLA 64 - Young citizens: youth and participatory governance in Africa
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 59: Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 58: Towards empowered participation: stories and reflections
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 57: Immersions: learning about poverty face-to-face
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 56: General issue
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 53: Tools for influencing power and policy
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 52: General Issue
This edition of Participatory Learning and Action is a general issue, and includes articles from practitioners around the world.
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PLA 51: Civil society and poverty reduction
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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PLA 50: Critical reflections, future directions
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
