Rural and Community Development
Indigenous Foodland Conservation Postdoctoral Position
Indigenous Foodlands Conservation Area
Postdoctoral Research Position
Organization
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- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Health
- Land
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Developing human capacity
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
- Sustenance and livelihoods
Resetting the Table - A Peoples Food Policy in Canada
Written by the Peoples Food Policy Project - Indigenous Circle of activists and scholars from across Canada.
Identifies main challenges and ways forward - outlining key recommendations for forming federal policies as it relates to reconciling Indigenous land, food and cultural values within the food sovereignty movement in Canada.
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- Agriculture
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Health
- Land
- Mining
- Other
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Integrated assessment
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
Indigenous Peoples' Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative
The United Nations Permanent Forum at its Seventh Session of the Permanent Forum held from 21 April to 2 May 2008 recommended that "...the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, university research centres and relevant United Nations agencies conduct further studies on the impacts of climate change and climate change responses on indigenous peoples who are living in highly fragile ecosystems".
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- Agriculture
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Health
- Land
- Other
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Developing human capacity
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Integrated assessment
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
- Sustenance and livelihoods
Declaration of Indigenous Peoples for Food Sovereignty
Representatives of Indigenous Peoples from the regions of Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, North America, Africa and Northern Europe, gathered at the Global Forum for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty in Rome from the 13th to the 17th of November 2009.
Reaffirming our right to Food sovereignty, which is intrinsically linked to our historical, cultural and spiritual relations with our Mother Earth, our lands and territories,
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- Agriculture
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Land
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
- Making markets work for small scale harvesting communities
- Participation
- Sustenance and livelihoods
Culture, Colonization and Policy Making: Issues in Native American Health
To improve health care, education, and prevention, a larger cultural and historical contextual framework is needed which pays heed to the impact of colonization and its effects on Native peoples. Such a holistic framework evaluates the long-term impact of introduced diseases and the cultural trauma caused by the removal of Indians to reservations (Jaimes 1992), the boarding school era (Johansen 2000), and the forced sterilizations of Native women (Carpio 1995; Torpy 1998).
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