Indigenous Land and Livelihoods
#IWD 2023: Rural women at the heart of participatory forest resource management
A guest Blog from our ForestLink partners: In Cameroon, the forestry sector plays an important role in the national economy, and provides a range of essential social and environmental functions for many local and indigenous communities. As a result, the sector also faces several tensions related to the proper management of its resources, including the socio-economic precariousness … Read more
Putting land-use planning into action: community monitoring with the Ashaninka
To put their land-use planning work into action, RFUK has supported the training of Asháninka community forest custodians on the use of a real time monitoring system called CIPTA (AIDESEP’s Centre for Information and Territorial Planning) – a tool which has been developed for the defence of the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples of … Read more
Land use planning with the Ashaninka in the Peruvian Amazon
Part of our work with the Asháninka communities in the Ene River basin has focused on improving control over their ancestral territories through the development of participatory land use plans. These plans support their rights to access and use their forests by zoning their territory, defining different area uses (e.g. urban expansion, fisheries, tourism, … Read more
Realising the Pledge: Unlocking System-level Change in the Congo Basin
Building on ‘Realising the Pledge,’ a briefing by the Rainforest Foundations of the United Kingdom, the United States and Norway on how the US$1.7 billion Forest Tenure commitment at COP26 can reach critical frontline forest defenders, this Brief looks at major opportunities to unlock system-level change in key tropical forest regions such as the Congo … Read more
Celebrating the Ashaninka: a look into our sustainable livelihoods project
Last month marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2022, globally recognising the contributions, achievements and vast knowledge of the indigenous populations of the world. To celebrate, we wanted to share what some of the communities we work with have been doing to secure sustainable livelihoods and protect their globally vital rainforest homes. … Read more
Realising the Pledge: How Increased Funding for Forest Communities Can Transform Global Climate and Biodiversity Efforts
A briefing from the Rainforest Foundations of the United Kingdom, the United States and Norway for climate funders and policy makers on what it will take to realise the US$1.7 billion pledge on indigenous peoples and other local communities and to mainstream support to these groups in climate and biodiversity funding more broadly.
Protected Areas and Indigenous Rights: A submission to the UN Special Rapporteur
In response to a call for comments to inform the Special Rapporteur’s report to the UN General Assembly at its 77th session, RFUK has put together a brief highlighting how, despite much lip service to the contrary, conventional conservation and climate change programmes continue to wreak havoc on indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities.
KEMITO ENE
Founded in 2010 and winner of the UN Equator Prize, Kemito Ene is a unique indigenous cooperative representing hundreds of Asháninka cocoa producers in Peru. They support Asháninka families to produce sustainable, organic cocoa and to sell it to international markets to enhance their livelihoods while preserving their ancestral forests. This, according to the Asháninka … Read more
CARE
CARE is the self-led indigenous organisation of the Asháninka people in the Ene river valley, central Peruvian Amazon. Representing 17 communities and 33 annexes in the Ene River, the main aim of CARE is to support the Ashaninka communities to achieve a “good life.” Under CARE’s leadership, they have emerged from the darkness of civil … Read more