Anne Legrosollard from Spore magazine interviews Giacomo Rambaldi, Sr. Programme Coordinator at CTA. What is Participatory mapping? What...

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st cen...

In 2009 a group of Batwa representatives from Uganda travelled to Ogiek communities in Kenya to learn about their situation and the differe...

Mapping with Drupal is a concise guide shows you how to create custom interactive maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of...

Bouba Mal Yaya is a herdsman from the Fulani-Mbororo peoples in Chad. Along with his fellow herders, he had been expecting good grazing for...

BHUTAN, 10 October, 2011 - On the special request of Honorable Minister Dr. Pema Gyamtsho, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), Bhu...

Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in...

In 2006 a little known ethnic group – called the Ogiek - created a three-dimensional map of their ancestral land in Kenya. In the past m...

N’DJAMENA, 9 November 2011 - Following the two-day conference on adaptation, a high level panel of two Chadian Ministers and representat...

Hôtel Novotel de N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Republic of Chad, 7-9 November 2011 Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges to humanit...

PUERTO PRINCESA, 11 November, 2011 - On 10 November, indigenous peoples and farmers led by people’s organizations such as ALDAW (Ancestra...

Mapping for Rights aims to provide easy access to accurate geographical information about the presence, land use and rights of indigeno...

In 2005 CTA in collaboration with a number of locally based development actors introduced a participatory mapping method known as “Parti...

This recent publication explores a range of uses of information and communication technology (including PGIS) that can increase public pa...

Source of video:  Survival International - The Ogiek Traditionally the Ogiek People were hunter-gatherers. In the last dec...

Shawn Simpson explores the definition and use cases for volunteered geographic information in public safety and local government.

The New Social Cartography Project of the Amazon collaborates with indigenous and other communities in Brazil to map their territories, c...

Leonard Odambo, President of MINAPYGA talks about how participatory mapping is supporting community rights in Gabon (in French). Second...

Emmanuel Bizot, Minister of Water, Forests, Hunting and Fishing for the Central African Republic speaks at the launch of the participato...

Conservation Story Blong Chivoko" was made by the men and women of the remote coastal village of Chivoko, accessible only by sea on ...