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Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities
2019
Author(s): Windchief S, Pedro T S
Applying Indigenous Research Methods focuses on the question of "How" Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRMs) can be used and taught across Indigenous studies and education.
This talk addresses the need to revitalize the Menominee Native American language.
Ms Tai Simpson works in anti-racism education and community organizing. She calls on her non-native audience to embody “old ways” when voting, teaching, and living in the world.
The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
2019
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations FAO
The reports highlight the importance of biodiversity, at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, to efforts to address the challenges posed by diverse and changing production systems. Many emphasize the role of diversification – using multiple species, integrating the use of crop, livestock, forest and aquatic resources, and conserving and managing habitat diversity at landscape or seascape scale – in promoting resilience, improving livelihoods and supporting food security and nutrition.
Herbal Plants for Children Diseases’ Cure in Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, India
2019
Author(s): Balamurugan G , Karthick A , Sasikumar K
The present study aims at identification and documentation of the medicinal plants which are traditionally used to manage children diseases in Perambalur district of Tamil Nadu, India.
The book examines the cultural, social, and political terrain of Indigenous education by providing accounts of Indigenous students and educators creatively navigating the colonial dynamics within public schools.
Addressing the Suppressed Epidemic: Violence Against Indigenous Women
2019
Author(s): Young AR
This purpose of this article is to explore issues relevant to understanding the current high rates of the intergenerational suppressed epidemic of violence against indigenous women and how the general public can use this information to aid in lowering this epidemic.
Mainstreaming Gender into ABS Value Chains: Gender Toolkit
2019
Publisher/Organisation: United Nations Development Programme
The UNDP-GEF Global Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Project´s gender toolkit helps ABS professionals in the design of gender-responsive interventions to accelerate gender equality and women's empowerment while at the same time advancing progress on access and benefit sharing. This user-friendly analytical framework features context, analysis, case studies and lessons learned to identify entry points to design gender smart and ABS value chains.
Impact of Farmer Producer Organization on Organic Chilli Production in Telangana, India
2019
Author(s): Manaswi BH, Kumar P, Prakash P , Anbukkani P , Kar A , Jha GK , Rao D , Lenin V
Primary data was collected from 120 farmers comprising 60 members and 60 non-members of FPO from two districts of Telangana through semi-structured interviews. The study found that the shift to organic chilli cultivation led to decrease in input use by 9.06% and yield by 23.4%.
The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami: Historical and Political Perspectives on a Minority within a Minority
2019
Author(s): Hermanstrand H, Kolberg A, Nilssen T R, Sem L
This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority.



