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by Tatiana Botelho on 26 January 2021
Three shifts in investment practices could yield more sustainable, organic outcomes while honoring and empowering Indigenous communities.
From valuing traditional knowledge to creating learning networks and structural mechanisms, Indigenous communities can be empowered and improve their livelihoods.
Initiatives that are not built upon existing Indigenous knowledge and connections in their regions are unlikely to succeed, as was the case with the Biotechnological Center in the Amazon.
This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.
How can we support Indigenous communities in using their current knowledge and knowhow to improve their living standards?
Newsletter 2021-01-21
The Gecko Project and Mongabay [01/21/2021]
– Members of the Auyu tribe of Papua, Indonesia, are demanding a halt to the operations of palm oil company PT Indo Asiana Lestari (IAL), which appears to be gearing up to clear their ancestral forests.
– They say that the company failed to obtain the community’s consent for the project, and that it’s not clear whether it even has the requisite permits to begin operations.
– IAL’s concession is part of the Tanah Merah megaproject that is already dogged by allegations that key operating permits have been falsified.
– The Papua region is home to the world’s third-largest contiguous swath of tropical rainforest, after the Amazon and the Congo Basin, but large areas may be cleared for plantations.
Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest
by Xavier Bartaburu on 13 January 2021
Highly popular in Brazil because of its delicious heart, the jussara palm was eaten nearly to the brink of extinction.
The Indigenous Guarani people from the São Paulo coast are traditional consumers of jussara palm hearts, and decided to reverse the loss by planting thousands of palm trees inside their reserve.
With more than 100,000 jussara palms planted since 2008, the community now sells hearts and seedlings to tourists and beach house owners. The next step is to start extracting the pulp from jussara berries similar to açaí berries, the popular superfood which the group hopes will generate enough income to keep the palm trees standing.
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