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13 May, 2013Artisanal logging and legality verification in DRC: what are the options?
FSC certification is not the right instrument to improve forest governance in DR Congo at the moment. This was the conclusion of a network event organised by WWF and the Dutch Tropical Forest Association VTB the 23th of April at the WWF office in Zeist, the Netherlands.
23 April, 2013Frontrunners show the way how to make sustainable forestry business work
Sustainable forestry business is possible and examples of this abound, but to achieve sufficient credibility these business cases need to be scaled up . This was a major message emanating from the side event Good Business: Making Private Investment Work for Forests at the UNFF-10 on April 15 in Istanbul. The side event was jointly organized by World Bank/PROFOR, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für international Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Tropenbos International.
15 April, 2013Recovering the ancestral interpretation of the Amazon territory
Indigenous communities and territory come together as one, but the relationship implies a variety of visions and interpretations. From a traditional point of view, the territory is multidimensional: it considers not only the physical-geographical area or the political-administrative dimensions, but it also includes the shamanic, mythological and inter-ethnic aspects. These are some of the elements that TBI Colombia recovers in the publication Traditional cartography of the Yucuna-Matapí: The knowledge and management of the traditional territory.
Agricultural Systems, Chagras and Food Security
Colombia - 2010
ISBN: 978-958-9365-16-8
Language: Spanish
TBI is launching the series “Monitoreos Comunitarios para el Manejo de los Recursos Naturales en la Amazonia Colombiana” (Community monitoring for natural resource management in the Colombian Amazon). This series documents TBI Colombia’s experiences on the use of local and traditional knowledge for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources.
For more than 15 years, TBI Colombia has been collaborating with local communities in the lower and middle Caquetá River to document and revitalise traditional knowledge and practices, and use these as a tool for developing models for local governance and sustainable management of natural resources. The success of these models has found increasing recognition by a variety of organisations working with indigenous and afro-colombian communities in Colombia. Until now, the methods used for engaging local communities in participatory research were not yet documented. The experiences compiled in this series serve as a guide and a source of inspiration for researchers and development NGOs, who work on projects generating local information aimed at facilitating decision making processes for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. Through this series, TBI wants to make a further contribution to the recognition of local and traditional knowledge, to the capacity of the local communities to generate information and monitor natural resources, to the discussions on the sustainable use of natural resources and to the development of a platform to strengthen environmental governance.
The first four books of the series are on: “chagras” - indigenous farming systems -, subsistence fishing, commercial fishing and participatory mapping. Upcoming editions will address fauna management, the use of non-timber forest products, climate change, and the application of local knowledge in the health sector.
Sistemas agricolas - chagras - y seguridad alimentaria.
TBI lanza la serie “Monitoreos Comunitarios para el Manejo de los Recursos Naturales en la Amazonía Colombiana”. Esta serie documenta las experiencias de TBI Colombia relacionadas al uso del conocimiento local y tradicional para la conservación y el manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales.
Por más de 15 años TBI Colombia ha venido trabajando con comunidades locales del bajo y medio río Caquetá en la documentación y revitalización del conocimiento y las prácticas tradicionales, y el uso de estos como una herramienta para desarrollar modelos de gobiernos locales y el manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales. El éxito de estos modelos ha sido reconocido por una gran variedad de organizaciones que trabajan con comunidades indígenas y afrocolombianas. Hasta el día de hoy los métodos utilizados para involucrar a las comunidades locales en la investigación participativa no habían sido documentados. Las experiencias compiladas en esta serie sirven como guía y fuente de inspiración para investigadores y organizaciones de desarrollo que trabajan en proyectos que generan información local dirigida a la facilitación de los procesos de toma de decisiones para la conservación y el manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales. A través de esta serie, TBI quiere contribuir al reconocimiento del saber local y tradicional, a la capacidad de las comunidades locales para generar información y monitorear los recursos naturales, a las discusiones del uso sostenible de los recursos naturales y al desarrollo de una plataforma para fortalecer la gobernanza ambiental.
Los primeros 4 libros de la serie incluyen los siguientes temas: Chagras – Sistemas agrícolas, pesca local, pesca comercial y cartografía local. En futuras ediciones se incluirán los temas del manejo de la fauna, el uso de productos forestales no maderables, cambio climático y la aplicación del conocimiento local en el sector de la salud.
