Search Results - "Indigenous peoples"
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Resilient, healthy, and sustainable food systems for biodiversity conservation and use 2030 Action Targets: A global collection of good practice cases
Published 2022“…The good news is that there are many good practices from around the world that use and conserve biodiversity to replenish ecosystem health and restore forest systems; deliver inclusive development for rural communities and Indigenous Peoples; increase productivity and resilience to climate change in production systems; help drive consumer shifts toward healthy eating for a healthy planet. …”
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Advance equitable livelihoods
Published 2023“…Finally, vast evidence illustrates that several socio-cultural and demographic drivers underpin inequalities among and within societies and constrain the potential for some to benefit from actions to improve their livelihoods, particularly women, youths, the disabled, the elderly and indigenous peoples. These issues have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, andcarving just responses to the climate crisis
Published 2025“…Despite the presence of international laws that guarantee the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination, territories, and resources, governments, along with extractive industries such as mining, energy, oil, and housing corporations, have been seizing community-held land and forests across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Africa, and Asia (Smith and Allen Citation2023; United Nations (UN) Citation2022; Veit Citation2018). …”
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New market opportunities in the Andes. Old herding practices disappear and new ones emerge.
Published 2026“…The growing demand for environmentally friendly, fair-trade certified products offers a pathway for sustainable and inclusive development that honors the cultural identity of Andean indigenous peoples. //Resumen: Este artículo explora los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan las comunidades pastoriles de camélidos en los Andes. …”
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Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s contributions to people
Published 2021“…Many lessons can be learned from indigenous peoples who have succeeded in living in harmony on the land.…”
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Characterization of the Guinea Pig Production Chain in Southern Colombia and Identification of Determining Factors for Adequate Provision of Extension Services
Published 2024“…By contrast, peasants’ and indigenous people’s organizations and social movements propose advancing knowledge co-production and co-innovation to increase the resilience of agrifood systems. …”
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Law of Origin Integrator of Premodern - Modern Production Practices in Kankuamo Territory of Colombia
Published 2024“…The Kankuamo people from Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta [SNSM], Colombia, are undergoing a process of recovering their local knowledge and self-determination as an indigenous people; however, exogenous information affects their decisions and contributes to their acculturation. …”
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Indigenous knowledge: Logging the forest
Published 2008“…With GPS and a new radio station, the indigenous people keep the company and the community informed…”
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A typological characterization of cocoa farmers in the Amazon region of Colombia based on biophysical and cultural variables
Published 2025“…Among them, Typology 3 consists mainly of Indigenous farmers (Indigenous with diversified agricultural productions), while Typology 1 includes both farmers and Indigenous people (Predominantly agriculture-oriented farmers). …”
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Swiddens and fallows: reflections on the global and local values of 'Slash and Burn’
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Indigenous forestry
Published 2010“…The indigenous forestry approach contrasts with conventional or scientific forestry, which brings in outside knowledge that indigenous people are then forced to use in planning, management, and use of their forests.…”
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Indigenous knowledge systems and climate change management in Africa
Published 2017“…In recent years, the knowledge of local and indigenous people, often referred to as indigenous knowledge (IK) has been increasingly recognised as an important source of climate knowledge and adaptation strategies.…”
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Incentives +: how can REDD improve well-being in forest communities?
Published 2009“…REDD initiatives are more likely to succeed if they build on the interests of forest communities and indigenous people. More attention is needed to the balance of incentives, benefits, rights and political participation across levels of decision making, interest groups and administration. …”
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Hunting in Times of Change: Uncovering Indigenous Strategies in the Colombian Amazon Using a Role-Playing Game
Published 2019“…Despite growing industrialization, the shift to cash economy and natural resources overexploitation, indigenous people of the Amazon region hunt and trade wildlife in order to meet their livelihood requirements. …”
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