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Representantes Indígenas de C.A fortalecen sus capacidades sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tierra, pesca y bosques.

El programa ha constado de dos talleres de capacitación y un periodo de formación virtual de cuatro meses en el que los participantes han desarrollado investigaciones dirigidas para identificar los principales problemas y necesidades relacionadas con la tenencia de recursos en sus comunidades, cuyos resultados se presentarán en este encuentro.

Mujeres Indígenas, Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria

Conozcamos sobre Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria y lo que están haciendo las mujeres Indígenas para fortalecer este aspecto tan importante en la vida apoyadas por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y el Centro para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CADPI) que intentan incentivar la participación de las mujeres y comunidades indígenas en la toma de decisiones y formulación de Políticas Públicas que incidan en su Seguridad Alimentaria.

UNSR Interview On Dakota Access Pipeline - Oct. 2016

Indigenous Rights Radio Producer Shaldon Ferris interviews Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, about the Dakota Access Pipeline. Vicky describes the central tensions underlying the current conflict, and details the opportunities for recourse available to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe through both local and international governing bodies.

Credits:
Interview with Vicky Tauli-Corpuz
Production by Shaldon Ferris

Music:
"Danum", by Salidumayy DKK

Maíz: Semilla Ancestral, Fuente De Vida

En este reportaje conoceremos sobre la historia del maíz, la importancia que tiene este grano para la cultura gastronómica de los guatemaltecos y los esfuerzos que se hacen para conservarlo; a pesar de los impactos que ha tenido su cultivo debido al cambio climático y los intereses políticos que le rodean.

“El día que el maíz ya no se dé, prácticamente nos vamos a terminar nosotros también, porque no podemos sobrevivir sin el maíz”, destaca Víctor Paredes, Guatemala.

A Long Road Ahead for Indigenous Women on International Women's Day

March 8th is International Women's Day-- a time to celebrate the many accomplishments of women, as well as to discuss strategies to further their empowerment and to achieve gender equality. Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan) interviews Avexnim Cojti (Maya K’iche’) about the role of women in her community, and what needs to change in order for Indigenous women to finally occupy an equal position in society.

Challenges And Solutions For Indigenous Fisheries in South Africa

Indigenous Rights Radio producer Shaldon Ferris (KhoiSan) investigates the impacts of fishing regulations on Indigenous groups who have fished as a part of their livelihoods for centuries. The Convention on Biological Diversity, an international agreement which has inspired the implementation of many current fishing regulations, specifically discusses the importance of collaborating with Indigenous communities in order to preserve cultural knowledge in the pursuit of ecological preservation.

Indigenous Agroforestry Protects Water, Biodiversity, + Food Sovereignty

The Kalinga Mission for Indigenous Children and Youth, led by Donato Bumacas, promotes values of biodiversity conservation, with the goal of poverty reduction. These values are upheld using Indigenous traditional knowledge systems andd technologies to conserve and maintain the local forests. Sustainable Indigenous agricultural technology is implemented, with the goal of passing these systems down to future generations, as this knowledge was passed down to them.

Community Octopus Reserves In Madagascar For Food + Economic Sovereignty

George ‘Bic’ Manahira describes how his community established the
world's first community-run octopus, sea grass, and mangrove reserve in partnership with Blue Ventures, a UK-based NGO, in order to strengthen the traditional sea-resource-based livelihood of the coastal Indigenous communities in Madagascar. They hope to expand and improve on the model in collaboration with other Indigenous groups and leaders in the coming years.

Indigenous Community Initiatives In Liberia Model Improved Livelihoods

Ezekiel Tye Freeman is the executive director of Green-PRO, which helps Liberian communities develop sustainable livelihoods for self-reliance. Beekeeping training programs, for example, offer a lucrative and environmentally friendly economic alternative to mining or slash-and-burn farming for individuals. Freeman points to high levels of unemployment among Liberia's Indigenous population as a major problem that his organization wants to attempt to alleviate.

Indigenous Kani Efforts To Promote Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge In India

Indigenous communities often hold invaluable knowledge about medicinal plants and healing practices rooted in the environment and resources of their traditional homelands. Anoop Pushkaran Krishnamma is working with the Kerala Kani Community Welfare Trust in partnership with Indigenous communities in India to record and preserve this knowledge, allowing for healing practices to be utilized by future generations.

MUSIC
"Remember Your Children," by Salidummay. Used with permission.
Introduction: "Burn Your Village to the Ground" by A Tribe Called Red. Used with permission.

Reforestation Model From Philippines Indigenous Communities

Lakes and forests in the Mt. Talinis area of the Phillipines are under threat from recent expansions of the energy industry. Apolinario Carino is working with the organization PENAGMANNAK, a federation of 17 Indigenous Peoples’ community groups, to pioneer community management strategies of reforestation designed to empower the Indigenous groups to shape the future of their lands. Apolinario hopes to share the knowledge that they have gained from these experiences in order to better combat climate change on a global scale.

Indigenous Science Is Needed To Change Course for the Planet

What is the role of Indigenous Peoples in the current climate crisis? What responsibility do Indigenous Peoples feel towards Mother Earth today? Listen to three Indigenous women leaders give their perspectives on their feeling of the interconnection between all living things and our planet in the face of climate change, and what they feel should be done with that knowledge.

Climate Change Takes Water And Milk From Mbororo People

In Mbororo communities in Chad, Indigenous women are the most affected by climate change because they are the ones collecting food, water, and traditional medicines for their families. Changes to their environment have cause increased hardship on the Mbororo who are pastoralist cattle headers, as they are forced to move more frequently to cope with increasing drought conditions.

Indigenous Women - Knowledge Holders, Responders To Climate Change

Can traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities provide us with answers to fighting climate change? We speak with Andrea Carmen (Yaqui), Executive Director of International Indian Treaty Council. She speaks about how Indigenous women are very strong voices in the work for the protection of the environment, through their role as food producers, knowledge holders, and the first teachers of children.

For Collaboration To Work, Western Scientists Must Respect Indigenous Scientists

What can Western science learn from Indigenous knowledge? We speak with Dr. Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi) and Tui Shortland (Maori) about the value of Indigenous longitudinal place-based knowledge that Indigenous People have gathered over millennia. We unpack what positive collaboration between Western science and Indigenous science can look like and why it is important.

Credits:

Background music:
"Atahualpa" and "Lights in the forest" by Yarina. Used with permission.

Lessons From Honduras On Indigenous Biodiversity Work + Partnerships

Indigenous communities in Honduras have stewarded the Muskitia, a rain forest which includes one of the richest concentrations of biodiversity in the world, for centuries. Osvaldo Munguia is a representative of MOPAWI, an organization that partners with Indigenous groups to protect this UNESCO world heritage site from being overtaken by logging, mining, and forestry business interests.

MUSIC
"Remember Your Children," by Salidummay. Used with permission.
Introduction: "Burn Your Village to the Ground" by A Tribe Called Red. Used with permission.

Indigenous Resiliency Amidst Changes In Fire And Ice

A close relationship with local environments and ecosystems is more critical than ever in the face of a rapidly changing climate. This program features two perspectives from Indigenous communities that are practicing resiliency to global warming by adapting their traditional knowledge and science to put a changing climate into the context of their communities' history and lifeways.

INTERVIEWEES
Elizabeth Azzuz (Yurok), Cultural Fire Management Council
Jannie Staffansson (Saami), Arctic and Environment Unit of the Saami Council

Indigenous Science Is Lifesaving And Rights To It Must Be Protected

Though collaboration is crucial to finding solutions for climate change, Indigenous People must be able to maintain, protect, and control their cultural heritage, sciences, and technologies. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples provides a legal framework for intellectual ownership by Indigenous communities of their traditional knowledge. However, many additional cultural barriers to equal-footed climate change collaboration exist, such as the automatic devaluation of Indigenous science by Western science practitioners.

Abanderando la Defensa de la Madre Tierra en el Día Mundial de la Radio

En este entrevista especial con Ada Villareal, Representante de la Red Centroamericana de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas de la que también Cultural Survival y nuestro programa de Radio de Derechos Indígenas es parte; te contamos la importancia que tienen la Radios Comunitarias en su función educadora, promotora y defensora de los recursos naturales para la garantía de la preservación y el buen vivir de las comunidades.

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