ALDAW - September 15 - An update by the ALDAW Network (Ancestral Land Domain Watch) Despite a growing outpour of international support and ...

Mac Chapin, anthropologist and indigenous rights advocate, describes a participatory mapping project carried out with the Kuna of Panama.T...

The question of land tenure is returning on the agenda and many countries are showing renewed interest in the different ways of accessing na...

This ambitious publication focuses on lessons learned from ten years of applied conservation approaches of the Central African Regional Pro...

The story so far… The story began in 2005 when some of the women in the Venda community began to take action to revive their rich traditio...

The documentary describes a process wherein the Dayak communities in Nanga Mahap, Sekadau District of Indonesia get control and manage th...

Puerto Princesa - ALDAW - On July 30, over 20 members of the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) - a local government body in...

Maps like this one will help the communties to have a better understanding of resources when developing their management plans; Photo: ...

El cuento de un encuentro especial en Venda, Sur Africa, y un proceso comunitario de cartografía eco-cultural. Líderes indígenas del Altai...

Puerto Princesa - ALDAW. On the 7th of June ( see IC release ) 600 protesters from farmers and indigenous communities reached the capital ci...

Freddy Nguema Allogo est responsable technique du projet cartographie participative dans le Bassin du Congo par compte de Brainforest Gabon....

A SPOT 5 scene was used to explore indigenous land use patterns, pastoral rangeland management and infrastructures with Borana pastoralist...

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...