Asia

Promoting Sustainable Agro-forest Management (Kaingin System)Rotational Agriculture & Strengthening Community Resilience to Climate Change

Local Partner: Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services Inc. (CorDisRDS) Background and  objective:  Living in a remote and mountainous place, indigenous peoples (are deprived of government support to their sustainable subsistence production of their own food collectively.  The practice of «Kaingin» or rotational farming has been s a traditional way of producing food for decades

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Strengthening IP leadership and advocacy on Food Security

Local Partner: Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Alliance (CIPA) Background and objective: main priority needs for Indigenous peoples are food security (loss of traditional seed and land), preserving indigenous forests and ecosystems, support for livelihoods, and appropriate economic development among others.Cambodia has a number of laws and policies that protect land and natural resource rights of Indigenous

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Supporting Kui people’s rights and resilience.

Grant name: Supporting Kui people’s rights and resilience. Local partner: Organization For the Promotion of  Kui Culture (OPKC) Country: Cambodia  Background and objective  According to field observation, most people who live in the Cheysen and Roveang district are affected by land and mining concessions – significant areas have been granted to Chinese gold mining companies.

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Enhancing Food security and Climate resiliency through Traditional Knowledge

Grant name: Enhancing Food security and Climate resiliency through Traditional Knowledge Local partner: Trinamul Unnayan Sangstha (TUS) Country: Bangladesh (Khagrachari Hill District) Background and objective  CHT is a special zone with rich ethnic diversity and vast indigenous knowledge that has been passed on from generation to generation. This knowledge has helped maintain indigenous peoples’ livelihoods

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Indigenous Youth Research on The State of Indigenous Health in Indonesia

Grant name: Indigenous Youth Research on The State of Indigenous Health in Indonesia Local partner: Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) Country: Indonesia  Background and objective  The world is experiencing upheavals caused by economic, social, political, cultural, environmental, and ecological crises, which are directly linked to a model of human and environmental exploitation that have led

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Promotion and Transformation of Traditional Healing Practices of Indigenous Peoples for Good Health and Wellbeing in Nepal

Grant name: Promotion and Transformation of Traditional Healing Practices of Indigenous Peoples for Good Health and Wellbeing in Nepal Local partner: Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development (CIPRED) Country: Nepal (Mountain region) Background and objective  Indigenous peoples traditional healing practices «Amchi» used to serve as best practices for the prevention of illness, good health,

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