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Indigenous Food As Medicine

Dr. Daphne Miller from the University of California tells us that Indigenous Peoples who eat the diets of their ancestors are immune to many chronic diseases.  Indigenous diets are also suited to local environments: farmers farm in a cycle, use different kinds of seeds, conserve water, engaging practices that are not only sustainable and organic but also regenerative.

Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.

Indigenous Pathways For Wellbeing

Researcher Elizabeth Hacker describes research about how Indigenous individuals create their own frameworks to define "well-being" to counter Western ideas of well-being. She found three important concepts for Indigenous well being are, Meeting basic material needs; social harmony and sense of belonging; and cultural identity. Dev and Elizabeth discuss examples from her research in India and Kenya.

Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Participants discuss what food sovereignty means for Indigenous Peoples. Speakers include Native American activist, and author Dr. Winona Laduke, and Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Global Coordinator of the ICCA Consortium, and David Strelneck, Senior Advisor at Ashoka Foundation.

Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.

Food Security

Interviewees discusses the main challenges to food security for a rising global population. Dhrupad Choudhury of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, argues that Indigenous farmers are doing important work to tackle challenges the world is facing today due to climate change. Indigenous farmers have the building blocks of stress tolerant crops, as well as sustainable agricultural practices because they are dependent only on the resources available to them.

Dr. Winona LaDuke describes her practices experimenting with various types of maize.

The Slow Food Movement

The Slow Food movement was founded in Italy in 1986 to promote an alternative to fast food.

Analee Johnson, Sami, of Sweden, says that the Slow Food movement believes that the food we produce should be good, clean, and fair. She gives an example of marketing Sami traditional food of Reindeer meat.

Bibhudutta Sahu, of the North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society explains that local food is always the best, because mother nature has been kind enough to provide us what we need.

Threats to Indigenous Land Rights: Interview with Dayamani Barla

Dayamani Barla, Indigenous tribal journalist and activist from Jharkland, India, discusses how Indigenous Peoples have been displaced from their traditional farming lands in the name of dams, mining and other development projects.

Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.

ECMIA 2015.Lucha De Mujeres Indigenas - Opinion De Hombre

Francisco Calitzai, Presidente del Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial de las Naciones Unidas. Calitzai reconoce la lucha y larga trayectoria de las mujeres Indígenas y la discriminación. Habla de la importancia del conocimiento y saber los derecho que nos pertenece. También exhorta a los jóvenes educarse e usar la tecnología para formar parte de la lucha para eliminar la discriminación y se cumplan nuestros derechos.

Comunidades Indígenas tienen el derecho a vivir libres de violencia e injusticia

Las Comunidades Indígenas tienen el derecho a vivir libres de violencia e injusticia. El Estado de Guatemala está ignorando estos derechos. Hacemos esfuerzos encaminados para lograr cambios y asegurar fuerte protección en materia de derechos humanos para todas las Comunidades Indígenas en Guatemala, y evitar que nuestros territorios sigan desvaneciendo. 

Industria minera en Guatemala se lleva territorios tradicionales y sagrados

Campaña en apoyo al pueblo Q´eqchi´ de Agua Caliente, Guatemala para demostrar  ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, autoridad pertinente para determinar la responsabilidad del estado de Guatemala por acciones injustas y violatoria de derechos contra la comunidad. En esta campaña se solicita el  apoyo de la sociedad civil y la comunidad internacional para  enviar una carta solicitando que el caso sea inmediatamente tramitado. Con ello se podrá sentar un precedente legal para proteger a todos los Pueblos Indígenas en Guatemala. 

Importancia De Radio E Intercambio En Guna Yala

En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de centroamérica se juntaron en Gunayala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.

Maximiliano Ferrer de la comarca de Guna Yala en Panamá habla de maneras de aprovechar la información compartida en el encuentro. Explica la importancia de la radio comunitaria para compartir la experiencia Indígena. En 1980 se les frenó la adquisición de una frecuencia, hoy negocian con el nuevo gobierno, que hasta ahora les ha ofrecido tres espacios radiofónicos en dos emisoras propiedad del estado.

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