Traditional Knowledge Bulletin |
- This week in review … FAO recognizes Koraput agricultural system as GIAHS
- This week in review … IUCN circulates communiqué of African Young Scientists on climate change and indigenous knowledge
- Funding opportunity: AusAID community-based climate change action grants
- Meeting prep: Indigenous issues at AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition meeting
- Resource: Paper on ecocultural restoration during climate change disruption
- Resource: IPCCA background document on REDD+
This week in review … FAO recognizes Koraput agricultural system as GIAHS Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:41 AM PST FAO officially recognized the Traditional Agricultural System of Koraput as a Globally Important Agricultural System (GIAHS) BHUBANESWAR, INDIA: The traditional agricultural system of Koraput is the first agricultural system in India to be officially recognized by FAO for its outstanding contribution towards promoting food security, biodiversity, indigenous knowledge and cultural diversity for sustainable and equitable development. The announcement was made by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the inauguration of the Indian Science Congress, and is considered an extremely important recognition for India's tribal agriculture. Read the release … Read a related article in The Hindu … |
This week in review … IUCN circulates communiqué of African Young Scientists on climate change and indigenous knowledge Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:38 AM PST African Young Scientists issue statement on climate change and indigenous knowledge GLAND, SWITZERLAND: Roundtable discussions on the role of young scientists and indigenous knowledge systems in climate change adaptation and mitigation were organized at the climate change conference in Durban by the African Young Scientists Initiative on Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AYSICCIKS). The discussions resulted in a communiqué that asserts that young people can mobilize communities to use indigenous knowledge to respond to climate change. Indigenous knowledge systems include early warning systems, such as behaviors of living organisms, short-term weather monitoring cycles, climatic variability experiences and use of appropriate livestock breeds, plant varieties, resource management practices, e.g. mixed cropping practices, and cultivation of drought resistance crops for sustainable food security. Such systems need to be documented to inform climate change research and development in order to contribute to the global body of knowledge for sustainable solutions to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Read the release … Download the communiqué [pdf] … |
Funding opportunity: AusAID community-based climate change action grants Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:36 AM PST Community-based Climate Change Action Grants: Application Guidelines The Australian Government is committing up to AUD$30 million over two years (2011-12 to 2012-13) to community-based climate change action grants to support community-based adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries. Community-based activities can play an important role in helping developing countries respond to climate change, while also contributing to poverty reduction and enhancing livelihoods. By working directly with communities and using local knowledge, activities can be targeted to address community priorities and build the capacity of communities to respond to climate change challenges and development needs. Grants are available for Australian and international NGOs to work with local organisations to scale up current successful community-based climate change activities or to build a climate change component into existing community development activities in the Pacific and South East Asia. The grants fall into two main categories: Community-based adaptation grants, which will help build the resilience of communities to the impacts of climate change; and community-based mitigation grants, which will help communities reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, while also addressing key development priorities. Preference will be given to proposals where the organisation has an established relationship with communities. The program will therefore focus on opportunities to scale-up and build on existing efforts to help communities respond to climate change, or to build a climate change component into existing community development activities. Applications must use the Proposal Template attached as Annex 2 to the Guidelines. They must be submitted to climategrants@ausaid.gov.au by 10 February 2012. Download the guidelines, including eligibility and selection criteria, proposal template and other details [pdf] … |
Meeting prep: Indigenous issues at AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition meeting Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:34 AM PST AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, seventh meeting The meeting will begin with an opening plenary presented by Rebecca Tsosie, Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. It will continue with working group meetings, training workshops, and panel discussions on: research collaborations with indigenous scientists and communities; indigenous people, human rights, science and technology; and benefit sharing: a human rights approach to indigenous knowledge. An evening panel will focus on "indigenous voices in scientific debate: human rights, the environment and climate change" where panelists will discuss the role of traditional knowledge in developing responses to climate change, the ways in which indigenous communities have contributed to the larger scientific and policy dialogue, and efforts to protect indigenous peoples' rights under domestic policies and international treaties. Visit the event's website … |
Resource: Paper on ecocultural restoration during climate change disruption Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:32 AM PST Indigenous ecosystem-based adaptation and community-based ecocultural restoration during rapid climate change disruption: Lessons for Western restorationists In this paper, Dennis Martinez argues that ecocultural restoration is the primary building block for ecosystem-based adaptation. Ecocultural restoration is distinguished from ecological restoration by its additional focus on culturally important species while also taking care of the non-cultural communities that the cultural plants are associated with; and the use of traditional landcare practices like prescribed burning, selective harvesting, microsite-targeted agroecology, and agroforestry through selective cutting and replanting. He notes the potential for complementarity between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing in meeting the challenge of rapid climate disruption through ecocultural restoration and ecosystem-based adaptation, and increasing mutually respectful collaborations in the field between Western researchers and Native experts. However, Western scientists still need to understand that the source of traditional ecological knowledge depends on the survival of Indigenous cultures, not scientific papers and books. Restoration ecology must move beyond its present ideological fixation on a purely autogenic nature and embrace a natural world that in large part includes Indigenous cultural practices, and reestablish the relationship between culture and nature. Read the paper … |
Resource: IPCCA background document on REDD+ Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:30 AM PST Analytical Background Paper on the Legal Aspects of REDD+ and Recent REDD+ Policy Developments This analytical background document aims to provide information on REDD+ mechanisms, and critically analyses how these mechanisms can potentially impact upon the rights of indigenous peoples. It also provides proposals for responding to the challenges through a biocultural approach. Read the document … |
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