Nissa Wargadipuras’s earliest memories involve learning how to live with nature. Her childhood home’s backyard in the hilly town of Garut, West Java was a little forest where her father planted vegetables, herbs and fruits. Her mother produced traditional medicine from the plants for their family and their neighbours.

This case study in Kenya was conducted with the Rabai sub-tribe of the Mijikenda Indigenous community in Kilifi County, coastal Kenya. It was coordinated by the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), working closely with the Rabai community.

Traditionally, farmers in Lebanon depended on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to manage plant nutrition or plant pests and diseases. Most farmers believed that increasing the quantity of chemical fertilizers would increase the yields of their crops.

The case study saw the successful piloting of the protocols in the village of Bethany, where community members were equipped with the skills and knowledge to negotiate with extractive resource companies and monitor their activity on customary land.

To obtain food according to each season, the Tikuna, Cocama and Yagua peoples combine different practices, such as fishing, hunting and chagras farming, an ancestral, diversified productive system in which annual and perennial species are cultivated and where trees are selectively cut and burned to replicate healthy forest succession.

This case study suggests that helping vulnerable indigenous populations adapt to climate change will require a reassessment of prevailing perceptions of their traditional ecological knowledge.

In this context, FAO is executing a project to support 19 communities belonging to six of the seven existing indigenous peoples in the country, which is financed by the Ministry of Government (MINGOB), with the support of the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) and the participation of the 12 indigenous congresses and councils.

Indigenous peoples’ organizations, the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) led successfully a consultation and mobilization process for the San to be recognized as the indigenous peoples of the Okavango Delta during its inscription of the delta as a Natural World Heritage Site.

In order to preserve their tradition, the Manjaq communities have embarked on a process of preserving local rice varieties essential for the organization of certain traditional ceremonies. Faced with these challenges, they have rebuilt their seed capital by making an inventory of all traditional seeds and their importance in traditional ceremonies.

This Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives.