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Keeping the Future Delicious!
Biocultural Sovereignty +
Agro-Ecosystem Diversity =
Resilience
Agro-biodiversity and Indigenous
Peoples Have Co-evolved
Christensen Fund Strategic Framework – Mission, Themes, Shared Outcomes and Cross Cutting Emphasis
Mission –backing the stewards of cultural and biological diversity
Ensuring Socio-Ecological
Resilience
Sustaining Foodways & Livelihoods
Celebrating & Revitalizing Cultural
Expression
Promoting Knowledge Systems & Biocultural Education
Active community adaptation to climate and
other changes
Ecosystem monitoring and assessments at community and biocultural landscapes
Improved diversity & productivity in
gardens, orchards, pastures and fisheries
Valued rare varieties & thriving complex landscape mosaic
maintained
Functioning ecological process and diversity
Capable and vibrant traditional owners and
community associations at land/seascapes scales
Expanding relationships and networks of
stewards and others, within, between and
beyond land/seascapes
Increased biocultural livelihoods options
Improved tenure security for sea/landscapes and
sacred sites
Blossoming traditions, cultural expression &
ceremonies
Local voices & biocultural diversity respected &
influencing decision making.
Festival and ceremonies celebrate biocultural
diversity.
Confident biocultural creative practitioners
Sacred sites spiritually vibrant
Formal education incorporates biocultural
knowledge.
Engaged young people in biocultural identity
and landscapes and blending new ideas with
traditional knowledge and strong
intergenerational bonds.
Widespread reframing and recognition of
relevance of indigenous rights & leadership.
Cross-cutting EmphasisRights & Representation ~ Gender Equality ~ Leadership Development ~ Creative Practitioners
Food Sovereignty part of Biocultural
Sovereignty– “Food sovereignty is the right of Peoples to define
their own policies and strategies for sustainable production, distribution, and consumption of food, with respect for their own cultures and their own systems of managing natural resources and rural areas, and is considered to be a precondition for Food Security.”
– “The rights to land, water, and territory, as well as the right to self determination, are essential for the full realization of our Food Security and Food Sovereignty.”
The “Declaration of Atitlan”, from the 1st Indigenous Peoples’ Global
Consultation on the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty, Guatemala, 2002
Enset Landscapes of SW Ethiopia
What is Enset?
• A cousin of the Banana
• Big, Green & Beautiful
• Locally domesticated; farmers manage gene flow between wild and cultivated
• Corm and pseudostem are starch-rich it’s NOT a fruit
• Great source of fiber
• Takes 4-7 yrs to mature: no tillage, deep mulch
• Intensely managed: in nutrient cycles, spatially in home & agroecosystem & aesthetics
• Often losing out in agricultural modernization
• Very culturally luminous
Dawro, Gamo Beehive hut built from
enset
Processing Enset
Processing
enset
Grant Making Strategies
• Supporting associations of communities in ensetlandscapes.
• Connecting farmers and researchers with other communities and landscapes globally
• Linking universities in a “consortium: to collaborate with farmers and community cultural associations to craft “Enset Parks”
• Re-valuing “kocho” culturally: food festivals, restaurants, schools
• Restoring long-term agro-ecosystem processes: water, carbon, nutrients
Indigenous Partnership for
Agrobidiversity and Food Sovereignty
• Amplifying Agro-ecological Solutions
Sharing Traditional Knowledge
• Indigenous Peoples’ Climate Change
• Assesment
Keeping the Future More Delicious