Traditional
Knowledge Bulletin
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- Resource:
Book on indigenous peoples, development, conservation and the law in Asia
- Resources:
ILC papers on indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and
resources; land governance in Asia
- Resource:
Book on land rights of the San and the legal concept of indigeneity in
Africa
- Funding
opportunity: Call for proposals for research on safeguarding TK in South
Asia
- This week
in review … Sri Lankan farmers urged to tap ancient irrigation systems
- This week
in review … Workshops in Australia share knowledge about traditional
burning techniques
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Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:12 AM
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The Right to
Responsibility: Resisting and Engaging Development, Conservation and the Law
in Asia
Holly Jonas and Harry Jonas, Natural Justice, and Suneetha M. Subramanian, UNU-IAS (eds), 2013
This edited volume explores how
indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ resilience is often undermined by
laws, institutional arrangements and judicial systems. It also examines how
particular peoples and communities strive to overcome such structural barriers
to self-determination by resisting unwanted developments and engaging
proactively with a range of actors at multiple scales. The first part
addresses the context and theoretical framework; the second examines specific
community experiences, including the transboundary landscape approaches in
the Kailash sacred landscape (China, India and Nepal), Sharwa (Sherpa) rights
and indigenous conserved areas in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park
(Nepal), livestock keepers’ rights in South Asia, forest rights and
conservation in India, and local forest governance, FPIC and REDD+ in
Indonesia; and the third includes recommendations and concluding remarks.
Comments and feedback are welcome by 1 September 2013 at
holly(at)naturaljustice.org. Download the
book [pdf] …
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Resources: ILC papers
on indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and resources; land
governance in Asia
Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:10 AM
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Synthesis
Paper: Indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and resources
International Land Coalition, 2013
This brief presents an overview
of issues related to indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and
resources, including on: the international framework and jurisprudence;
regional challenges and opportunities; indigenous women’s rights to lands and
resources; and recommendations for ILC engagement on indigenous issues. The
synthesis paper refers to a full ILC study, which is available upon request
at: info(at)landcoalition.org. Download the
brief [pdf] …
Land
Governance in Asia: Understanding the debates on land tenure rights and land
reforms in the Asian context
Antonio B. Quizon, International Land Coalition, 2013 | ISBN: 978-92-95093-82-9
This paper examines land tenure
systems and legal frameworks in Asia, and the current major debates around
processes of land reform and justice for poor land users. It sets today’s
systems in their historical context, tracing their roots back to regimes
imposed by colonising powers, mainly European, over a 450-year period. The
land reform process has remained largely incomplete, but today there is a
resurgence of interest. This paper examines various models for reform and
their potential to protect rights and access for poor land users. Among the
major issues it discusses are women’s access to land, the land rights of
indigenous peoples, tenure for forests and public domains, the role of small
farms, the phenomenon of land grabbing, and the emerging effects of climate
change. Download the
paper [pdf] …
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Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:07 AM
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Lost Lands?
(Land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the legal concept of indigeneity in
Africa
Manuela Zips-Mairitsch, IWGIA and LIT, June 2013 | ISBN: 978-87-92786-35-7
This book focuses on a land
rights dispute in Botswana: the decision of the High Court of Botswana in the
case Sesana v. the Attorney General in late 2006. In this case, 215
individual San claimants took legal steps against their relocation from the
Central Kalahari Game Reserve as well as the denial of hunting licenses.
Furthermore, they criticized the discontinuation of state infrastructure and
welfare benefits. After 130 days of trial and almost 19,000 pages of minutes,
this was the most comprehensive case any court in Botswana had ever had. The
book shows the limits of the claimants’ legal strategy: although significant
progress has been made in recognizing the land rights of indigenous peoples
in the last few years, it becomes clear how difficult it is to implement this
progress for the benefit of a community’s way of life like the San. Further
information … Download the
publication [pdf] …
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Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:05 AM
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SAARC Call for
Proposals for Research on Safeguarding Traditional Knowledge and Traditional
Cultural Expressions of South Asia (2013-2014)
SAARC Cultural Centre, May 2013
The Cultural Centre of the
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has invited
proposals for research on various aspects of traditional knowledge and
traditional cultural expressions of South Asia. The objectives of the
research project are to: identify and document various forms of traditional
knowledge and traditional cultural expressions of South Asia; study and
analyze all forces that have impacted traditional knowledge and traditional
cultural expressions; discuss and debate their productive characteristics;
and present innovative measures of safeguarding them. All research proposals
are to be submitted through official channels to the SAARC Secretariat by 31
August 2013. Further
information …
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Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:02 AM
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Sri Lankan
farmers urged to tap ancient irrigation systems amid erratic rains
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2 July 2013
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: While the
problem of erratic rains may seem relatively new, research by Sri Lankan
water experts shows that a workable solution to the vagaries of shifting rain
patterns has been around for centuries in the form of ancient irrigation reservoirs,
or “tanks” as they are known locally. Experts at the Colombo-based
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) say these tanks – mainly
located in the north and east – can be used to store excess water from
floods, which is then released during dry spells. Nishadi Eriyagama, a water
resources engineer at the IWMI, said farming regions in the dry zone have
traditionally relied on reservoirs and irrigation for crop cultivation. “It
has been the custom from ancient times to store excess rainfall in large and
small irrigation ‘tanks’ to be used during the dry season,” she said. Read the
article …
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Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:00 AM
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Cool way to
burn improving land
Daily Liberal, 11 July 2013
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: Two
field days aim to share knowledge about traditional aboriginal techniques of
cool burning and how they can be used to improve groundcover. The field days
are the culmination of a series of eight knowledge workshops, held throughout
the Western Catchment, Australia, aiming to collect traditional knowledge for
use in the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Knowledge System, a web-enabled
database that links users to relevant organizations, documents, audio and
video files about aboriginal cultural heritage in the Western Catchment.
While discussion topics included the uses of local plants, different
techniques for caring for different land types and a range of research
materials, the main focus of the workshops was the use of fire in traditional
land management practices. Read the
article … Visit the
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Knowledge System …
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