This session will bring Indigenous and local leaders together to share, evaluate and recommend strategies for mainstreaming Indigenous and grassroots voices in global climate agendas. Drawing on successes and lessons learned from the All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA) Program, the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) will explore:
Key issues, threats and challenges facing Indigenous and local people in the Amazon Basin
Current strategies, campaigns and advocacy initiatives to protect Indigenous territories and rights from undiscriminated natural resource extraction and weakened governance
The role and use of technology in protecting Indigenous territories and rights, given limitations in connectivity and access
The institutional underpinnings of impactful and sustainable strategies, coalitions and movements to protect Indigenous territories and rights
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For more than 20 years, the Wildlife Conservation Society has worked with Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador; supporting territorial and natural resource management, with a sense of integrality, including actions to strengthen cultural values, conserve natural ecosystems and improve local livelihoods. As a result of this experience, a toolbox has been developed consisting of a set of technical resources to support territorial management processes: booklets, manuals, questionnaires, databases, report formats and training modules. The toolbox provides participatory methodologies that can contribute to the efforts of indigenous organizations to strengthen their territorial management capacities.
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Consumer countries such as the EU, USA and China have begun to look at their footprint from imported deforestation. Several initiatives are being implemented or debated that address globally traded soft commodities from the Amazon, including timber, soy, beef, cocoa and coffee. These include import and other regulatory approaches, as well as a plethora of commitments by non-state actors and the investment community. The ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement has been blocked by a number of countries arguing for stronger guarantees of socio-environmental safeguards. But how effective are these approaches? While most of the debate focuses on global commitments made by governments, corporations and investors, considerably less attention has been given to the potential impacts and trade-offs of such initiatives in producer countries and regions. Speakers in this session will unpack these questions, and identify pathways and priorities for achieving equitable, zero-deforestation production in the Amazon.
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In this session, we will demonstrate integrated territorial management as a way to address the conservation challenges of the Amazon. How the implementation of practical actions in the field by Marfrig and its partners have contributed to common development. We believe that the preservation of the Amazon is an urgent issue that requires the mobilization of the entire society. And that is our commitment. We will have the opportunity to show the world what Marfrig’s strategy is and with whom we partner to make the necessary change in the Brazilian livestock chain happen.
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Join us for an informal facilitated networking session. Guided by conversational menus, you will have the opportunity to connect with fellow conference participants in short breakout sessions.
You are invited to use this menu of questions to spark conversation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mPMrm-qPzece7Qn9r1qv724f9vQbzmNQ/view?usp=sharing
These sessions are offered in Spanish (21 Sep), English (22 Sep), and Portuguese (23 Sep).
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Join us to kick off the Amazonia Film Festival with a collection of short and full-length non-fiction films about the region. Explore one of the most biologically- and culturally diverse places on the planet, and delve into its daily realities through the eyes of filmmakers from the Amazon and beyond. Enjoy and reflect on documentaries shot in Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, all of which will be available for streaming over the three days of the GLF Amazonía conference. Finish the day with a panel discussion featuring Brazilian filmmakers Mari Corrêa and Eryk Rocha, and Ecuadorian film collective TAWNA. Moderated by Brazilian cinematographer and journalist Lorenna Montenegro, the panel will explore, among other things, the role of perspective when creating audiovisual content about the region, and the importance of protecting the Amazon Biome. Then, it’s time to sit back and enjoy a curated series of short films hosted by environment-focused streaming platform WaterBear Network. First, Survival Revolution: The Kayapo Identity will share one Amazonian Indigenous group’s perspective on development in the region. Then, Protecting Nature for Good will tell the story of a massive, big-picture approach to conserve Brazil’s Amazon that helped define a new way to protect nature; and Beautiful News: Tatiana Espinosa will zoom in on the important conservation work of a trailblazing Peruvian forest engineer.
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Reconciling agricultural land use for food and income with conservation needs remains one of the greatest development challenges of our time. Indigenous, traditional and peasant communities of the Amazon have practiced a balanced model of nature use and conservation for centuries, shaping and maintaining the ecological functions on which their livelihoods depend. This session will present insights from archaeological, anthropological and contemporary research on land-use practices in the Brazilian Amazon and Amazonian territories of neighboring countries. The integrated agroforestry systems and technical solutions of Amazonian communities are based on deep understanding of the synergies and interactions of plant and animal species of the forests and aquatic fauna, and hold important lessons and strategies for today’s call for a more regenerative agricultural system.
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As renowned scientists Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre have put it, “The tipping point is here, it is now. A modern vision of the Amazon must include truly innovative elements to create profitable bioeconomies that would immediately eliminate illogical and short-sighted economies.” Join Amazon Conservation for an open and meaningful dialogue on what it takes to build a profitable bioeconomy that keeps the Amazon standing for generations to come. Hear from local community members, Indigenous Peoples, and experts about the building blocks of sustainable forest-based businesses, how local efforts can be scaled up, and what local people are doing to build climate resilience and adaptation into their livelihoods.
Building a forest-based economy in the Amazon – How a bioeconomy can provide climate resilience, economic development, and ensure the survival of the Amazon’s biodiversity
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“Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are among the most biodiversity-rich regions in the world, particularly in species of bamboo native to the Americas. Communities in the region have known about bamboo’s unique socioecological benefits for more than 10,000 years, including its vital contribution to several ecosystem services of provisioning, regulation and recreation. This session, hosted by INBAR, will draw on the rich knowledge of local communities in the Amazon to discuss how bamboo can contribute to a new circular development paradigm, and reactivate the economy in the wake of COVID-19.
Infographics
Bambú como herramienta para afrontar el Cambio Climático
Publications
Análisis de los servicios ecosistémicos del bambú en Perú
Análisis de políticas y marcos regulatorios para el desarrollo del bambú en Colombia
Incentivos del bambú para la construcción
Análisis de políticas del bambú para las provincias amazónicas en Ecuador
Ecuador National Bamboo Strategy
Ecosystem service and cost benefit analysis of natural forest and mixed bamboo systems in Peru
Videos
El Arte de Tejer con Bambú en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana
Los Rostros del Bambú
Las voces del proyecto Bambuzonía
Todo sobre el bambú
Bambú en América Latina
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The Amazon rainforest creates and relies on its own rainfall for survival. Deforestation, increased drought, and wildfire is threatening this process, resulting in an Amazon “dieback” that would transform the world’s largest rainforest into a grassland-like ecosystem. Preventing this outcome is not only possible; it may well be the cheapest means of keeping carbon in the forests. This panel will explore the science behind the “dieback” scenario, and ways to scale effective, bottom-up strategies for managing fire. Speakers will draw on extensive research, as well as first-hand experience managing fires through a collaborative network of Indigenous Peoples, farmers, and government agencies.
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