Nominations open for Equator Prize 2019
The Equator Prize shines a spotlight on outstanding community efforts across the tropics that exemplify sustainable development through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Submit nominations by 26 February 2019! Read more ▸
EMRIP Statement on the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019
The UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) commemorates the launch of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, acknowledging the critical role of Indigenous ecological knowledge for maintaining biodiversity and addressing climate change. Read more ▸
Newsflash #14 – January 2019
Briefings on ICCAs around the world – issue #14 Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium stands with the Wet’suwet’en
In November 2018, TransCanada tried to enter Unist’ot’en territory to begin work on their fracked gas pipeline. They were respectfully turned away but the struggle had to be intensified in response to several further attacks, both legal and physical. The ICCA Consortium is joining the international wave of solidarity. Read more ▸
Video – Biocultural practices in Imegdale
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Le Programme de Microfinancements du Fond Mondial pour l’Environnement du PNUD au Maroc a réalisé cette vidéo sur la localité d’Imegdale. Réglementées par le droit coutumier, les pratiques traditionnelles de conservation permettent la régénération écologique et favorisent un certain équilibre du milieu. Read more ▸
Eight Shells
The voices of the women of the sea from communities of Barbados, St Kitts, Grenada, Belize and Costa Rica were heard loud and clear at a learning exchange aimed at strengthening the capacities of fisherwomen in the backdrop of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium and WWF discuss what it takes to enhance governance security in Territories of Life
Should the ICCA Consortium collaborate with WWF in support of Territories of Life? Following our work on inclusive conservation in 2018, a workshop was convened in January 2019 to discuss the question and envisage the initiative that may follow… Read more ▸
Leadership Transition for the ICCA Consortium
In late 2017, a Search Committee was formed and tasked by the Consortium Council to oversee the leadership transition process of the Consortium –… Read more “Leadership Transition for the ICCA Consortium” ▸
Crossing boundaries: Legal and policy arrangements for cross-border pastoralism
Jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), this publication provides recommendations to enable and secure transboundary mobility for sustainable pastoralism, an overview of several legal and policy mechanisms and several cases of successful bilateral and multilateral agreements. Read more ▸
Informe de Políticas ‘Conservación inclusiva ¿de quién?’, en Castellano
El término ‘conservación inclusiva’ ha sido adoptado recientemente por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial en su programa 2018-2020 para la financiación de la biodiversidad. En este contexto, el Consorcio TICCA propone aquí una definición y recomendaciones Read more ▸
Reflections on a 15-year journey to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities
By knowing the history of an organisation, we can better understand its motivations and actions. This beautiful multimedia story provides a glimpse of the 15 biggest moments so far of ICCA Consortium Member Blue Ventures’ ongoing journey, which began in Madagascar and continues to grow with coastal communities around the world. Read more ▸
Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest cover and community rights
This academic research, co-authored by Nonette Royo, an ICCA Consortium Honorary member, aims to support policy innovation, using geospatial and qualitative data from Amazonia, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica to explain how infrastructure and extractive industry lead directly and indirectly to deforestation, forest degradation, and increasingly precarious rights for forest peoples. Read more ▸
Karen indigenous communities in Myanmar have officially launched the Salween Peace Park
Last month, indigenous Karen communities, the Salween Peace Park Committee, and the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN – an ICCA Consortium Member) officially launched the Salween Peace Park in the Mutraw District of Myanmar’s Kayin State. Read more ▸
Strengthening long-term and counter-historical processes of self-determination in Taiwan, province of China, a 2018 overview
In 2018, the work of the Taiwan Indigenous Conserved Territories Union (TICTU – an ICCA Consortium Member) in Taiwan was concentrated along four fronts: a mega solar-power farm project, an air force base, conflicts in traditional territories, and nuclear waste dumps. Read more ▸
Exchange of Experiences and Strengthening Capacities of Indigenous Women Leaders of Bolivia
In December 2018, in the town of Santiago de Chiquitos in Bolivia, the first Workshop of Exchange of Experiences and Strengthening of Capacities of Indigenous Women Leaders of Bolivia was held, organized by the TICCA Consortium Bolivia . Read more ▸
Newsflash #13 – December 2018
Briefings on ICCAs around the world – issue #13 Read more ▸
Adoption of our policy on “Defending Territories of Life and Their Defenders” coincides with 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
During our XIIIth General Assembly in November, the ICCA Consortium adopted a new policy on “Defending Territories of Life and Their Defenders”, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. What does this mean to us in concrete terms? Read more ▸
Regenerating the diversity of terraced landscapes through food sovereignty
By putting farmers and peoples at the centre, food sovereignty allows the traditional custodians of terraced landscapes to regenerate a diversity of local ecologies, economies, and cultures as part of a new modernity. After briefly describing the origins and history of food sovereignty, this paper, written by Michel Pimbert, an ICCA Consortium Honorary member, highlights some of the major challenges that need to be addressed to enable the spread of food sovereignty in terraced landscapes and their associated territories. Read more ▸
La grève comme moyen efficace de défense d’une APAC – La zone de pâture intercommunautaire de Namoungou
Au Burkina Faso, les éleveuses et éleveurs Peuls ont utilisé en cette fin 2018 une façon inédite dans cette région de lutter pour la défense de leurs droits : la grève ! Vidant le marché de bétail, ils ont obtenu gain de cause. Read more ▸
