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Showing posts with label indigenous peoples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indigenous peoples. Show all posts
Friday, January 06, 2017

Opportunity for PGIS practitioners to map Batak ancestral lands and indigenous peoples’ and community conserved areas and territories (ICCAs) in Northern Palawan, the Philippines

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The Coalition against Land Grabbing ( CALG ) is a national coalition of indigenous peoples and local communities based in the province of P...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Life on the move - Pastoral life and livestock cross-border trade in Northern Uganda through the lens of participatory mapping

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Cross-border livestock trade in dryland eastern Africa significantly contributes to the enhancement of food security and generation of wea...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

The Power of Maps - Bringing the Third Dimension to the Negotiation Table

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Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM) is one of the most remarkable innovations of the late 20th century. It is remarkable because it brings to...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Mapping local knowledge to drive sustainable natural resource management, influence policy-making and promote climate change adaptation

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A new publication from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) illustrates how local communities in a range of dev...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

Documenting illegal land occupancy using drones

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Unmanned aerial vehicles have the potential to empower indigenous communities to become equal partners in the efforts to safeguard their ter...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Mapping deep in the jungle: our experience among Saramaccan Peoples

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In July 2015 local residents and leaders from 14 indigenous Saramaccan villages, located along the upper Suriname River, collaborated wit...
Friday, March 04, 2016

IWD2016 - Celebrating women: A champion for the rights of indigenous people

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An encounter with an innovative technique known as participatory three-dimensional modelling was to prove a turning point in the life of a...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

Speaking of Home - The story of the Mount Elgon Ogiek

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The Ogiek peoples live on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Kenya. This documentary shows the Ogiek's relationship to their homeland and...

Knowledge and cultural transmission in Kenyan participatory 3D mapping

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This film interview of Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC), is ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

The Right to be Different: Struggle for Water and Identity in the Andes

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In the parish of Licto, near Riobamba, in Ecuador, the indigenous population fought for its water. Indian peasants participated in the des...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Drones and Aerial Observation : New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights, and Global Development

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Gregor Maclennan from Digital Democracy talks about the use of UAVs used in the context of indigenous land rights in Guyana....
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Rainforest Airforce: Indigenous Peoples Fly Drones to Protect their Land

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In August 2014, Tushevs Aerials (tushevs.com) traveled deep in the Peruvan Amazon to train indigenous leaders in the use of remote-cont...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Mapping Our Land: A Guide to Making Your Own Maps of Communities and Traditional Lands

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Communities all over the world are discovering that maps provide a valuable tool for recording local knowledge and discussing land-use issu...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Nation-wide database based on content generated via Participatory 3D Models

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SYDNEY, 19 November 2014. During the World Parks Congress session " A toolkit to support conservation by Indigenous Peoples and local c...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Mandingalbay Yidinji Traditional Owners mapped their lands in 3 dimensions - Don't miss their feedback at the World Park Congress in Sydney

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Australian aboriginal Mandingalbay Yidinjii people have recently completed a P3DM exercise within the ancestral territories (traditional cou...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Forthcoming P3DM-related activities at the 6th World Park Congress, Sydney 12-19 November 2014

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Click to download the flyer This is to update you about a series of events which will focus on Participatory GIS practice during the...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The film “The enabling power of participatory 3D mapping among the Saramaccan People of Suriname” launched at CWA2014

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Fifty years ago, some 5000 Saramaccan people of Suriname had to leave their traditional lands along the Suriname River due to the construct...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

African Court issues historic ruling protecting rights of Kenya's Ogiek Community

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In a recent decision  the  African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has ruled that the Government of Kenya should " preserve th...
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Saturday, December 07, 2013

Participatory mapping used to monitor illegal logging by the Baka in their ancestral forests

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The Baka indigenous people in the forests of the Congo Basin have been using PDAs (personal digital assistants) with built-in global pos...
Friday, August 30, 2013

At global land rights conference, combining participatory mapping tools with traditional knowledge emerges as powerful weapon to fight massive land grabs

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SAMOSIR, NORTH SUMATRA (30 August 2013) - With governments, loggers, miners and palm oil producers poaching their lands with impunity, indi...