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Pardhis are a community of traditional hunters, who live a nomadic life, and hunt predominantly for meat. They also help farmers against crop raid by wild herbivores, cull man-eaters on behalf of communities and governments, and in the past helped royalty on hunting expeditions.

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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.

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The study provided an overall country analysis of the needs of indigenous peoples and the solutions they propose to tackle rural poverty and gender.

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This study provides a preliminary analysis of boarding school policies directed at indigenous peoples globally. Because of the diversity of indigenous peoples and the nation-states in which they are situated, it is impossible to address all the myriad boarding school policies both historically and contemporary.

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This study presents specific and actual examples where Indigenous Australians have explored and used intellectual property laws to protect their arts and cultural expressions.

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The study examined the effective protection of folklore so as to derive directions for future work in the field and to assess the relevance of the Model Provisions already drawn up for framing legislation.

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Case Study
Bringing Cultures Together on the Farms and Mountains of Viet Nam

2021

Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization

The study shows how local farmers were only able to sell to intermediaries and small-scale traders who offered low prices. The poor road and transport infrastructure in this mountainous, rural area also made it difficult to sell further afield or in other markets, where prices might be higher.

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Following The Rhythm of Mother Earth Learning From Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and Their Respect for Nature

2021

Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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.

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Indigenous Youth as Agents of Change :Actions of Indigenous Youth in Local Food Systems During Times of Adversity

2021

Author(s): Uffelen AV, Tanganelli E, Gerke A, Bottigliero F, Drieux E, Fernández-de-Larrinoa Y, Milbank C, Sheibani S, Strømsø I,Way M, Bernoux M

The following publication "Indigenous youth as agents of change - Actions of Indigenous youth in local food systems during times of adversity" highlights six initiatives from Indigenous youth in regions around the world who are leading innovative solutions and collaborations in the face of adversity brought about by climate change and exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Agroecological Alternatives to Industrial Livestock Production

2019

Author(s): Global Forest Coalition (GFC)

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.