By Jessica Milgroom, Annette Drewes, Agroecology Now!
This article describes a tool called the Tribal Adaptation Menu that provides a set of concrete, practical strategies, approaches and tactics for how to incorporate indigenous thinking into planning, policy, research and interventions for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
By Jeanine Pfeiffer, YES! magazine
Enrolling local tribal experts as science advisers, partners, and co-managers in addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, legacy pollutants, and other pernicious issues not only makes sense, but is the only way to effectively turn things around.
By Kyle Powys Whyte, Stan Rushworth, Dahr Jamail, Resilience.org
Kinship is a certain type of relationship that we all have with each other. No matter what society you live in, there’s going to be some degree of kinship.
By Suma Josson, Salt Films
This film is a documentary on the conservation of indigenous seeds by Sahyadri School, KFI, Khed, Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra in India.
By Diana Negrin, Esperanza Project
All had come to Las Margaritas to attend a free intensive agroecology workshop led by Gerardo Ruiz Smith, a Mexican regenerative agriculture expert, and coordinated by the Wixarika Research Center as the first stone of a long-term project that seeks to restore and regenerate the desert in what many have come to call the “botanical garden” of Wirikuta.
By Deborah McGregor, Carbon Brief
Indigenous climate justice advocates argue that as long as these dominant world systems fail to embrace the transformation required and offered by Indigenous peoples – including an acceptance of the rights of Mother Earth – humanity as a whole will continue to fail the planet.
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Dr. Danielle Ignace has found a way to unify her Native American and Western science identities to better understand big ecosystem changes.
By David Choquehuanca, Resilience.org
We children have inherited an ancient culture which understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided and nothing is outside.
By Vicki Robin, Vanessa Andreotti, Resilience.org
Vanessa is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and “In Earth’s CARE”, an international network of Indigenous communities located mostly in Canada and Latin America. Vanessa provides her insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Solutions
If we cannot listen, learn and change our ways, for the good of all “persons” of the planet, power should be put in the hands of those that have listened for millennia and can speak in defense of the violated interconnected rivers of the world.
By Gaia Foundation staff, Gaia Foundation
In this article our Finnish partners Snowchange announce the launch of a new, world-leading effort to re-wild the Finnish-Russian Koitajoki River System using a combination of science and traditional knowledge. Gaia is proud to be a partner in this exciting project.
By Carlotta Byrne, Gaia Foundation
Across Africa, a network of Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners is accompanying traditional and indigenous communities in the revival and enhancement of their Earth-centred customary governance systems.