This video is the first in a series titled “Where Our Ancestors Walked: Mapping the Historical-Cultural Space of the Yanesha People,” whic...

The story of a special gathering in Venda, South Africa, and a community process in eco-cultural mapping. Indigenous leaders from Altai (R...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is implementing the project “Piloting IFAD’s Participatory Mapping Approach for S...

In recent years, changes in participatory methodologies (PMs) may have been even more rapid than those in spatial technologies. Local peopl...

The merging of participatory development methods with geo-spatial technologies has come to be known as Participatory GIS and is now an emerg...

PPgis.net serves as a global avenue for discussing issues, sharing experiences and good practices related to community mapping, public par...

We have just completed the translation of this important publication by Mac Chapin & colleagues. Here are the links to the documents. ...

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental science...

PGIS practitioners make use of a range of low and high tech geographic information technologies for acquisition, validation, analysis, repre...

A field update from the ALDAW Network (Ancestral Land/Domain Watch) May 2010 Between July and September 2009, a mission organized by the ...

This is an easy-to-use manual to ILO Convention No. 169 . It helps to understand the Convention, and how it can be used to gain recognition,...

A contemporary follow-up to the bestselling Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how...

This paper considers what is at stake in defining and mapping protected areas for conservation. The authors link issues of power in cartogr...

Louis Liebenberg, founder and developer of CyberTracker technology shares his views on the importance of maintaining local knowledge at the ...

In March 2006, the Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for a revitalization of mining nation-wide. The future of Palaw...

Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook By Luisa Maffi and Ellen Woodley Publication date: 19th February 2010 ' All of t...

Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC), a pan-African network, elabo...

In 2005, when the Tsunami hit Banda Aceh in Indonesia, it killed many of the elderly fishermen. Much of the traditional knowledge about the ...

Julius Muchemi, Executive Director of ERMIS Africa, an NGO based in Kenya, reports on a Participatory 3D Modelling exercise which occurred ...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, ...