Terra Madre ecosystems: Forest people and land grabbing

The indigenous population doesn’t destroy, we’re only looking for conservation, the preservation of the environment. Indigenous people are the biggest protectors of the Earth. That’s us, the indigenous people are the greatest defenders of nature, of animals, of biodiversity, of the waters… All of that is thanks to the indigenous people _ Murilo Juruna

Today, the SFYN Podcast dedicated to Terra Madre 2020 kicks off its ecosystem exploration journey with an episode dedicated to forests and in particular to forest peoples and land rights. The urgency of creating this particular episode is due to the following target set by the Convention on Biological Diversity in the ‘zero-draft’ Global Biodiversity Framework: “By 2030, protect and conserve through a well connected and effective system of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures at least 30% of the planet with the focus on areas particularly important for biodiversity”, so they are suggesting that we increase from 17% (as it is today) to 30% the surface of our planet that will be preserved as a natural reserve.

What you and I may not realize at first glance is that creating natural reserves often means removing the indigenous peoples that are currently living on those lands, who are then forced to move to “somewhere else” which is often not specified by the local authorities.

Interviewees:
- Michele Fontefrancesco, assistant professor in Anthropology at UNISG;
- Dauro Zocchi PhD researcher at UNISG;
- Winnie Kadoshy Sengwer, indigenous Sengwer women from the Embobout forest, Kenya;
- Imanul Huda, indigenous leader in the forest area of Kapuas Hulu, in Indonesia;
- Murilo Juruna, spokesman for the indigenous Slow Food Juruna community of the Cassava in the Brazilian Amazon (Valorização da Mandioca do Povo Juruna km 30).

Find out more about Terra Madre: www.terramadresalonedelgusto.com
Interested in the topic? Join the free Terra Madre Forum "Forest peoples' food systems and the threat of land grabbing" on the 21st November. Register at: https://terramadresalonedelgusto.com/en/event/forest-peoples-food-systems-and-the-threat-of-land-grabbing/ 

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Project manager and podcast host: Valentina Gritti
Composition, production and editing: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Brazilian Percussion: Philip Kukulies
Goni: Agustín Fernández 
African Ensemble: Kabele bah, Paul Valdivia, Guillermo siliceo, Jorge whaley y Juan Domingo Rogel; maestro Gwagoro Keita.
Sound database: Acoustic Ecology Lab @ASU

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