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Friday, December 18, 2015

Le pouvoir de la cartographie participative en 3D chez les Saramacas du Suriname (video)

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Il y a cinquante ans, quelque 5000 individus du peuple Saramaccan du Suriname ont dû quitter leurs terres traditionnelles, le long de la...

The enabling power of participatory 3D mapping among the Saramaccan Peoples of Suriname (Video)

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Fifty years ago, some 5000 Saramaccan Peoples of Suriname had to leave their traditional lands along the Suriname River due to the cons...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Socially engaging, user-friendly, and user-useful approaches in ecosystem service research

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Participatory 3D modelling was presented as a ground breaking approach to use in participatory ecosystem service research during the 8th Eco...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Facilitating climate smart adaptation through the use of Participatory 3D Modelling by Neila Bobb-Prescott at the Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Food Forum in Barbados

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#CPAF15 - Facilitating climate smart adaptation through the use of Participatory 3D Mapping from CTA Participatory 3D Modelling or...

Participatory mapping processes for data generation and exchange in SIDS by Aly DeGraff at the Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Food Forum in Barbados

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Participatory mapping processes for data generation and exchange in SIDS from CTA Participatory mapping is the solicitation and in...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

L’équipe samoane de cartographie participative a reçu un prix de développement durable

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Le 25 septembre 2015, le département forestier du Ministère des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement des Samoa ( MNRE ) a reçu le ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Samoa’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment receives award for engaging civil society via participatory mapping

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On 25 September 2015 the Forestry Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Samoa ( MNRE ) received a Public Servic...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines

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With the support of UNICEF and the University of the Philippines, children in Camarines Norte help their communities in locating the hazar...
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....

We have wings to fly - Join the uav4ag community

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones for management of crops, livestock, fisheries, forests and other natural resource-base...
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...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Transformative Power of Social Media in Agriculture: Inspiring Stories

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The advent of social media has revolutionised the way people communicate worldwide. But in a growing number of developing countries, thes...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

The power of media: Did the documentary film "Virunga" trigger a plunge in the share price of the oil exploration firm SOCO International?

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Virunga is a extraordinary documentary film which focuses on the conservation work of rangers within the  Virunga National Park in the  D...
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...

Handbook on Participatory Land Use Planning: Methods and tools developed and tested in Viengkham District, Luang Prabang Province, Lao PDR

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“This approach puts the keys of development in the hands of local communities and avoids engaging them into endless assistance programs” D...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Participatory Methods in Community-based Coastal Resource Management

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This 3 volumes sourcebook is a documentation of various tools and methods developed in the course of doing Community-based Coastal Resourc...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Mapping for Change: Practice, technologies and communication - 10 years have passed - publication still valid and available

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This CD “ Mapping for Change: Practice, technologies and communication ” includes a selection of papers presented at the “Mapping for Chan...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

Saamaka peoples upscale the use Participatory 3 Dimensional Modelling along the Upper Suriname River

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In partnership with Tropenbos International Suriname ( TBI ), WWF, and the Association of Saamaka Authorities (VSG),  CTA introduced the ...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Release announcement: Langscape: Vol. 4:1, Summer 2015, The People's Issue - Part One: Flows and Bridges

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Terralingua's magazine  Langscape is a unique voice for biocultural diversity—the interlinked diversity of life in nature and culture....
Friday, July 10, 2015

‘Participatory data’ and the formulation of Tourism Development Area Management Plans in Samoa

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Developing agriculture to better serve tourism markets in the Pacific is knowledge intensive. The first step is to determine the tourism mar...