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Newsletter
TBTI Digest, February 2019

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Video
Construimos conocimiento nuevo conociendo lo distinto

Valorando los saberes tradicionales de las comunidades indígenas que habitan en la región del Gran Chaco Americano, el movimiento El Futuro está en el Monte busca incoporar tecnología. Con los grupos de artesanas, por ejemplo, se trabaja en la construcción de nuevos conocimientos para reducir los tiempos de trabajo y así...
Argentina
2019 - El Futuro está en el Monte

Newsletter
TBTI Digest, March 2019

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Newsletter
TBTI Digest, April 2019

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Blog article
Curso capacita professores de escolas indígenas sobre agricultura familiar

Participantes, incluindo gestores, assistiram apresentação sobre o Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (Pnae)
Gestores e professores de escolas indígenas do Amapá participaram de oficinas sobre o Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (Pnae). Durante quatro dias, representantes dos povos Galibi-Marworno, Karipuna, Palikur e Galibi-Kalinã estiveram na cidade de Oiapoque para debater sobre como garantir aos estudantes das escolas indígenas da região uma alimentação saudável,...
Brazil
2019 - Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA)

Report
Thailand migration report 2019

FAO contributions to this UN Thematic Working Group report are chapter 4, "Working Conditions for Migrants in Thailand's Agricultural Sector" and chapter 5, "Working Conditions for Migrants and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Thailand’s Fisheries Sector."
Thailand
2019 - United Nations

Newsletter
TBTI Digest, May 2019

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
Canada
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Newsletter
TBTI Digest, June 2019

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
Canada
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Newsletter
TBTI Digest, July 2019

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
Canada
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Event
XI Jornadas interdisciplinarias de estudios agrarios y agroindustriales Argentinos y Latinoamericanos

Las Jornadas Interdisciplinarias de Estudios Agrarios y Agroindustriales constituyen un foro de discusión e intercambio de investigaciones vinculadas con las múltiples aristas del mundo rural argentino y latinoamericano, analizadas desde distintas ópticas profesionales y mediante diferentes metodologías y marcos interpretativos. El acento puesto en la convergencia multidisciplinaria sobre el campo de...
Argentina
2019 - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas

Miscellanea
Applying agroecology in IFAD operations

Webinar presentation
Mixed cropping, using ‘weed’ crops to attract predators and cultivating resilient local breeds - these are all examples of agroecology in action. Agroecology refers to the application of ecological science and principles to the study, design and management of sustainable agricultural ecosystems.
2019 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Article
Óleo de Babaçu Menire, produzido por mulheres Xikrin, é premiado pela ONU

Elas operam uma miniusina na Terra Indígena Trincheira Bacajá (PA), pressionada por garimpo e roubo de madeira. Em 2018, mais de 1,5 mil hectares foram desmatados ilegalmente
O Óleo de Babaçu Menire, produzido por mulheres Xikrin da aldeia Pot-Krô, Terra Indígena Trincheira Bacajá (PA), recebeu menção honrosa na categoria Empreendimentos Rurais do prêmio "Saberes e Sabores 2018", oferecido pela Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (FAO). Menire significa “mulher” na língua Kayapó. A extração do óleo de...
Brazil
2019 - Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)

Book
Formalizing community rights to forests: Expectations, outcomes and conditions for success

Formalizing community rights to forests In many parts of the world, forests that are managed and used by local communities and Indigenous Peoples are under increasing pressure from outside forces such as commercial plantation development, mining and logging. Also, preservationist approaches to nature conservation may threaten local people’s access to the...
2019 - Tropenbos International

Blog article
Novo site do ISA apresenta raio-X de terras indígenas na Amazônia

Parâmetros como invasões, cobertura florestal e estágio de demarcação ancoram sete indicadores para cada Terra Indígena (TI ) analisada
Sistema de indicadores elaborado pelo Instituto Socioambiental lançado nesta segunda-feira (18), dá um panorama da situação das Terras Indígenas (TIs) na Amazônia Legal. O Terras + utiliza informações como presença de invasores ilegais, de projetos de infraestrutura e etapas de demarcação para avaliar a condição de 361 Terras Indígenas na...
Brazil
2019 - Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)

Blog article
The future of pastoralism: a key tool for forest fire prevention

Pastoralism is coping with many challenges, including its low economic viability, excessive bureaucracy, and low generational renewal, leading to its progressive disappearance across Europe. To economically compensate for the environmental services of pastoralism, including preventing forest fires through grazing, two complementary pathways were extensively discussed: on one hand, the need for...
2019 - Euromontana

Blog article
Mulheres indígenas ajudam a recompor matas ciliares em fazendas de Mato Grosso

Sementes coletada no parque no Xingu são distribuídas para produtores rurais em trabalho de reflorestamento coordenado pelo Instituto Socioambiental
O Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), em parceria com produtores rurais, organizações de ensino, de pesquisa, pequenos e médios agricultores, índigenas e poder público, conseguiu reflorestar em 12 anos de trabalho uma área de 4 mil hectares, apenas 1,34% dos mais de 300 mil hectares de matas ciliares que precisam ser reflorestados...
Brazil
2019 - Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)

Blog article
A luta para manter uma língua indígena viva

Natural do Xingu, Tapi Yawalapiti tenta evitar que o idioma de seu povo desapareça. Com a ajuda da memória dos mais velhos, ele está criando uma gramática e um dicionário para a língua. Tapi é linguista. Há um ano, faz um mestrado na Universidade de Brasília (UNB). Sua dissertação analisa aspectos...
Brazil
2019

Book
Peru: Deforestation in Times of Climate Change

This book comprises a total of 14 articles addressing the issue of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and its impacts, not only on the Amazonian environment and wildlife but particularly on the communities inhabiting the area. These impacts are being facilitated by informal dynamics for which the state is largely...
Peru
2019

Report
Report of capacity development workshop on the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication for indigenous peoples of Central America

For centuries, fishing has been an activity of great importance for indigenous peoples. They inhabit and relate to water ecosystems, which conserve their cultural heritage, food sovereignty (the right to access healthy and culturally appropriate food) and in many cases are a main source of income. In Central America the...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO

Blog article
Traditional agricultural heritage systems grab spotlight in Europe and Central Asia

Traditional agricultural systems can sustain biodiversity and conserve genetic resources for food and agriculture, building resilence to climate change while respecting and promoting rural livelihoods and knowledge systems. It was to identify, support and safeguard these systems that FAO launched the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme. An event starting today in...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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