Traditional Knowledge Bulletin |
- Meeting prep: 35th Session of IFAD Governing Council
- This week in review … Public consultation launched for REDD+ SES version 2
- This week in review … TK licenses to help protect and share digital cultural heritage
- This week in review … Traditional weather prediction incorporated into Kenyan forecasts
- This week in review … AAAS coalition explores indigenous perspectives on climate change
- Resource: Briefing note on indigenous peoples and transnational corporations
- Resources: Books on indigenous land conservation
- Resource: Book on traditional environmental knowledge
Meeting prep: 35th Session of IFAD Governing Council Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:11 AM PST Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, 35th Session In the context of the upcoming Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held from 4-6 June 2012, this session of IFAD's Governing Council will be centered around the overarching theme "Sustainable smallholder agriculture: Feeding the world, protecting the planet". The first day will open discussions on the centrality of smallholder agriculture to sustainable development and the green economy. Speakers and panelists will address the most pressing challenges in adopting evergreen approaches to smallholder agriculture. The second day will focus on finding concrete institutional solutions and specific policy proposals to adopt evergreen approaches to farming. The meeting's concept note recognizes that "indigenous farming traditions and knowledge represent an untapped resource in efforts to protect the world's natural asset base, mitigate climate change and improve livelihood opportunities for smallholder producers". Parallel regional events will address, among other issues: achieving food security in sub-Saharan Africa through conservation agriculture; and community and participatory management of natural resources: experiences from Mesoamerica's indigenous peoples and forest communities. Visit the meeting's webpage, including links to events and documents … |
This week in review … Public consultation launched for REDD+ SES version 2 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:09 AM PST Draft REDD+ SES Version 2 WASHINGTON DC, USA: Comments are invited on the draft REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (SES) Version 2 from 9 February until 9 April 2012. The draft will be revised in response to comments received and a second public comment period is planned for May and June 2012 before finalization of REDD+ SES Version 2. The draft includes principles of relevance to indigenous peoples and TK, including: recognition and respect of rights to lands, territories and resources; equitable benefit-sharing; improvement of well-being of indigenous peoples and local communities; full and effective participation of relevant rights holders and stakeholders; and compliance of the REDD+ programme with applicable local and national laws and international conventions. The REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards initiative aims to build support for government-led REDD+ programmes that make a significant contribution to human rights, poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation. Further information, including links to documents and possibility to comment … Further information on the REDD+ SES initiative … |
This week in review … TK licenses to help protect and share digital cultural heritage Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:06 AM PST New technology seeks to safeguard knowledge of whanau, hapu, iwi and marae ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND: Mukurtu is a free and open source community content management system that provides international standards-based tools adaptable to the local cultural protocols and intellectual property systems of Indigenous communities, libraries, archives, and museums. The CMS serves as a flexible archival tool that allows users to protect, preserve and share digital cultural heritage through Mukurtu Core steps and unique Traditional Knowledge licenses. The Mukurtu project began in the remote Central Australian town of Tennant Creek with the creation of the Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive. The project was born from the needs of the Warumungu Aboriginal community who wanted a system to archive and organize their digital cultural materials in line with their cultural protocols. Read the article … |
This week in review … Traditional weather prediction incorporated into Kenyan forecasts Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST Traditional weather prediction incorporated into Kenyan forecasts EMUHAYA, KENYA: Kenyan farmers have relied on indigenous forecasting methods through the generations. Some fear these methods will be made redundant by more extreme and unpredictable weather linked with climate change. Others say they remain valuable tools – especially when used in conjunction with modern science. The Kenya Meteorological Department thinks ancient practices have something to offer. Based on the findings of a study released in April 2010, it now blends traditional forecasts with science-based predictions to produce more accurate – and more well-received – weather and climate data at the local level in western Kenya. Read the article … Visit the website of the AfricaAdapt project "Integrating indigenous knowledge in climate risk management in support of community based adaptation" … |
This week in review … AAAS coalition explores indigenous perspectives on climate change Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST AAAS Coalition Explores Perspectives of Indigenous Communities on Climate Change WASHINGTON DC, USA: This article reviews the 23 January meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, which focused on the importance of involvement by indigenous peoples in climate and environmental issues, and also included a panel discussion on "Indigenous voices in Scientific Debate: Human Rights, the Environment and Climate Change". Read the article … |
Resource: Briefing note on indigenous peoples and transnational corporations Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST Indigenous peoples and transnational corporations and other business enterprises This briefing note aims to show how indigenous peoples' exclusion from political decision-making processes – locally, nationally, regionally and globally – places them in a position of extreme disadvantage vis-Ã -vis imposed industrial activities that affect their individual and communal lives, territories and resources. The note was published on the occasion of the first meeting of the newly established UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, held in January 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland. Read the briefing note … Visit the webpage of the UN Working Group on human rights and business … |
Resources: Books on indigenous land conservation Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:58 AM PST Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature: Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts Involving indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural resource management produces more equitable and successful outcomes. Unfortunately, the authors argue, most methods fail to produce truly equal partnerships. This book offers a global overview of the theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions of co-management. The authors critically evaluate the range of management options that claim to have integrated indigenous peoples and knowledge, and then outline an innovative, alternative model of co-management, the Indigenous Stewardship Model, further providing detailed case studies and concrete details for application in a variety of contexts. Purchase the book from Left Coast Press … Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation In this book, Beth Rose Middleton examines new and innovative ideas concerning native land conservancies, providing advice on land trusts, collaborations, and conservation groups. Purchase the book from University of Arizona Press … |
Resource: Book on traditional environmental knowledge Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:55 AM PST Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge Recently made available in paperback edition, this book presents an overview of the study of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) and the directions in which it has evolved in recent years. The contributors argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the historical and political forces that have shaped it and people's day to day engagement with the landscape must be taken into account. TEK thus emerges not as an easily translatable tool for development experts, but as a rich and complex element of contemporary lives that should be defined and managed by indigenous and local peoples themselves. Purchase the book from Berghahn … |
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