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Lahu-New Rice Eating Ceremony

Indigenous peoples’ livelihoods are highly inter-connected with nature and environment. These have nurtured them and accumulated into their traditional knowledge in which they have passed down from generation to generation.

Café Melanesia: Our Food, Our Lands, Our Future

The goal was for every Melanesian to assert their right to good health and nutrition through their own cultural food solutions, indigenous innovations, and local knowledge systems. The project was implemented by Save PNG Inc., to increase community health, food sovereignty and agro-biodiversity throughout the Pacific countries of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, …

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When Indigenous Languages Are Threatened So Are Indigenous Peoples

INTRODUCTION Indigenous peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, yet they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s almost 7,000 languages. There are dire predictions that up to 95 percent of the world’s languages may become extinct. Seriously endangered indigenous languages constitute the majority of these. The persistence of indigenous languages is …

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International Learning Exchange on “Traditional Seeds, Food and Agro-Ecology”

The International Learning Exchange on “Traditional Seeds, Food and Agro-Ecology” was held in Cambodia on October 20 – 27th, 2018. “To have this exchange all of our partners from different countries coming together to share, not only to share about our seeds, our food security but also to strengthen our relations, our solidarity as peoples,” …

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Kivulini trust centres for culture, indigenous knowledge and experiential learning in northern kenya

The Place for Culture Based Experiential Learning The mainstream education system has reduced home-based transmission of indigenous knowledge and instead promoted the process of assimilation of indigenous children into mainstream alien lifestyle. The experiential learning of cultural practices and skills are about practical learning by young people on culture through participation and training by elders. …

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The Iban Sebaruk Indigenous Peoples Strengthen their Customary Institutions

In Sanggau District, West Kalimantan Province in Indonesia, more than 6,000 indigenous Iban Sebaruk people were involved in Institut Dayakologi’s project of strengthening their customary institution for an effective and credible customary law system. They began with an assessment of the Iban Sebaruk Customary Administration as the highest legal authority and the indigenous territories under …

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Journey to Aotearoa

By Namaka Rawlins The Native Hawaiian group Hālau I Ka Leo Ola O Nā Mamo returned home to Hawaiʻi in March of 2019 after spending over a week in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The trip focused on strengthening bonds of language and culture revitalization to be further shared with other Indigenous peoples. Hālau I Ka Leo Ola …

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African Honey Trail and the Call of the Bee

Bees, like farmers all over the planet, are struggling with the onslaught of drought and extreme climatic changes. Additionally, deforestation, use of agricultural pesticides, pests, and diseases have contributed to an alarming decrease in the bee population that discourages beekeepers from pursuing this occupation. In Kenya, Africa, communities of the Borana, Gabra, Samburu, Ameru, and …

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