During the latest session of the FAO’s Committee on Agriculture, Nahid Naghizadeh delivered a side event presentation on the importance of mobility and nomadic and pastoral peoples in managing biodiversity and food systems, drawing from deep experience in Iran. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium extends our deep condolences and love to the family, friends and colleagues of Khadija Catherine Razavi, co-founder and Chair of the Board of CENESTA, and beloved wife of our late founding president, Dr. Taghi Farvar. Read more ▸
As part of the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA, ICCA Consortium Member) is documenting Indigenous Peoples’ food systems in Iran. Read more ▸
Nomadic pastoralists in Iran play an important role in national food security and sovereignty. Since the arrival of COVID-19, they have been deeply concerned about the impact that the pandemic is likely to have on their society and way of life. UNINOMAD, ICCA Consortium Member, outlined its members’ concerns and proposed solutions in a letter sent to key national authorities on 10 March 2020. Read more ▸
One Earth profiles Black, Indigenous and People of Color who live and work as environmental defenders. Here, twenty short biographies introduce readers to diverse environmental defenders from around the world. Our dear Ghanimat Azhdari is among these young inspiring people interviewed by the author, Anuradha Rao, who describes the experience of writing this book and her meeting with Ghanimat. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Members in Iran join forces to strengthen mobile indigenous peoples– the custodians of territories of life — in memory of Taghi… Read more ▸
During a four- week period this summer, Ghanimat Azhdari, representative of ICCA Consortium Member CENESTA and member of the Consortium Council, participated in the OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Programme in Geneva, where she submitted a statement in support of the migration of nomadic indigenous peoples. Read more ▸
A few months after the Regional Assembly, Aibek Samakov, interim Council Member with special responsibility for West and Central Asia and the Caucasus, offers his reflections on the outcomes of the event and the future of ICCAs in the region. Read more ▸
The Consortium held a successful regional assembly in Armenia between June 16-21 2019, with excellent prospects for the Consortium membership and its work in West and Central Asia and the Caucasus. Read more ▸
As part of the ICCA Global Support Initiative, together with the ICCA Consortium and Natural Justice, the UNDP GEF SGP conducted analyses to evaluate the impacts and opportunities of laws, policies and institutional frameworks on ICCAs at the national level in several countries. Read more ▸
Global Coordinator (Incoming)
500 people participated in the first national forum of the Union of Indigenous Nomadic Tribes of Iran (UNINOMAD – an ICCA Consortium Member) in the Bakhtiari Tribal Confederacy’s Territory, Iran, reinforcing unity and solidarity among the nomadic tribes of Iran Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium Members, partners and friends of West and Central Asia and the Caucasus gathered in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 29-31 October 2018. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium participated in the World Mountain Forum and Silk Roads Conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in October of 2018. ICCAs, or “Territories of Life”, were identified as crucial to fulfilling the goals of Sustainable Mountain Development. Read more ▸
Nahid Naghizadeh was invited to participate in the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and to present the work of Cenesta on rangeland landscape restoration and conservation by pastoralist communities in Iran. Read more ▸
Regional representative for West and Central Asia and the Caucasus
Emblematic ICCA Kishkor-Koohchir (300 000 hectares mostly comprising semi-arid pasture areas), is one of the many ICCAs that can be found in Baluchestan, south… Read more “Kishkor-Koohchir, an ICCA in Baluchestan” ▸
A video story: ICCA in Qeshm Island, by Cenesta
Participatory video: Re-empowerment of the Local Community of Takab, Promotion of Sustainable Livelihoods and Restoration of qanat, a Cultural Heritage of Desert Communities. Read… Read more “Takab, Promotion of Sustainable Livelihoods and Qanat Restoration” ▸
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