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Biodiversity

From lessons to practice and impact: scaling up pathways in peoples’ biodiversity management

The rights and technical capacities of indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers are the focus of the three-year global program, ‘Putting lessons into practice: Scaling up People’s Biodiversity Management for Food Security’.

Publication Date: 
08/10/2015
Oxfam
Tags:
Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Food Security, Genetic Resources, Climate Change, Peru, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Indigenous Peoples
Land

Who owns the world’s land?: a global baseline of formally recognized indigenous & community land rights

In recent years, there has been growing attention and effort towards securing the formal, legal recognition of land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2015
Rights and Resources Initiative
Tags:
Land Tenure, Land Ownership, Indigenous Peoples, Tribals, Land Resources, Environment, India, Global
Climate Change

Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

The indigenous people of Greenland, the Inuit, have lived for a long time in the extreme conditions of the Arctic, including low annual temperatures, and with a specialized diet rich in protein and fatty acids, particularly omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). A scan of Inuit genomes for signatures of adaptation revealed signals at several loci, with the strongest signal located in a cluster of fatty acid desaturases that determine PUFA levels.

Publication Date: 
18/09/2015
Matteo Fumagalli, Ida Moltke, Niels Grarup & et al
Science
349
6254
1343-1347
Tags:
Climate Change, Greenland, Arctic, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Adaptation, Consumption Patterns
Poverty

Poverty eradication: access to land, access to food

Poverty Eradication: Access to Land, Access to Food focuses on the urgent challenge of ending poverty and hunger, issues that are central both to Expo2015, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, and to implementing the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.