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Source: Yaro Kankani, Contributor CIKOD has called for government’s support for the informal seed system The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has called for government’s support for the informal seed system in the country. Such support according to the NGO will help develop the local seed system and eliminate challenges posed by the formal seed system including difficulty in accessibility and cost. Mr Bernard Guri...

Power and Place: Indian Education in America (with Vine Deloria Jr.) and Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, which is a Native response to the environmental crisis and marked the beginning of Wildcat’s leadership in the climate change crisis. A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Wildcat talked about his first experiences teaching at Haskell and being able to develop a Western civilization class that was comparative, with an Indigenous counterpoint to the Eu...

It’s widely understood that rivers, wetlands and other waterways hold particular significance for First Nations people. It’s less well understood that Indigenous peoples are denied effective rights in Australia’s water economy. Australia’s laws and policies prevent First Nations from fully participating in, and benefiting from, decisions about water. In fact, Indigenous peoples hold less than 1 per cent of Australia’s water rights. A Productivity Commission report into national water ...

February 11, 2021 Carolyn Finney, author of “Black Faces White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors,” and scholar-in-residence at the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College, will give a lecture about her nationally recognized work to increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to inform and determine policy and action on environmental issues. Finney is giving the Class of 1945 Lecture, part of the Cornell Botanic Gardens Lectur...

Jaguar Health, Inc.: Jaguar Healths Chief of Sustainable Supply, Dr. Steven King, an Ethnobotanist, to Discuss Crofelemer Development on February 4th at 2 PM Eastern as Part of the American Botanical Councils Sustainable Herbs Program Webinar Series Webinar registration link appears below Over the last 30 years, the Jaguar team and partner organizations have substantially invested in developing the first and only oral plant-based prescription medicine approved under FDA Botanical Guidance while...

  A book, "Surviving COVID-19: The Neglected Remedy" has been launched in Lawra to educate and motivate people to grow and consume locally nutritious foods for improved health against the worlds deadliest disease. The book; a mini barefoot guide for agroecology series, put together by the Natural Food Barefoot Guide Writers Collective 2020 for the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), was launched by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD); a member...

/CNW/ - Traditionally harvested foods are important to the culture and diet of Indigenous peoples and Northerners. It takes Indigenous peoples and scientists...

From: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada Under the Northern Contaminants Program, the Government of Canada is providing $1 million in 2021-2022 for new projects focusing on environmental and community-based monitoring and research Traditionally harvested foods are important to the culture and diet of Indigenous peoples and Northerners. It takes Indigenous peoples and scientists working together to better understand the levels of contaminants in these foods and implementing ...

International human rights organizations condemn the recent Panay Massacre Format Deadly operations through coordinated police and military actions on Indigenous Peoples under Dutertes regime in the Philippines must stop! We the undersigned organisations across the world condemn the apparently extrajudicial execution of 9 Indigenous leaders, and the illegal arrest of 17 additional leaders and members of Tumanduk nga Mangunguma nga Nagapangapin sa Duta kag Kabuhi (TUMANDUK). The massacre took pl...

+ Community members of Tanchara Koro in the Lawra Municipality of the Upper West Region have arrested a total of 18 illegal small scale miners popularly known as ‘galamsey’ who thronged the community to engage in the destructive business. The people have since handed over the 18 arrested ‘galamseyers’ to the police at Babile Police for the law to take its course regarding their actions. Meanwhile, the activities of the illegal miners also led to the burning down of a total of 100 acre...