Extractions: AAAS ( ASSOCIATION AMÉRICAINE POUR LAVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES ), 1993, Science in Africa : Women Leading from Strength , Sub-Sahara Africa Program, Washington, DC ( É.-U. ), AAAS. AAUW ( AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN ), 1992, How Schools Short-change Girls : A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education , Washington, DC ( É.-U. ), AAUW Educational Foundation and National Education Association. ACERO, L., 1995, « Conflicting Demands of New Technology and Household : Womens Employment in the Brazilian and Argentinian Textiles Industry », dans MITTER, S. ET ROWBOTHAM, S. ( DIR. ), Women Encounter Information Technology : Perspectives of the Third World , Londres ( R.-U. ), Routledge. ADVISORY PANEL ON FOOD SECURITY, AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENT, 1987, Food 2000 : Global Policies for Sustainable Agriculture , Londres ( R.-U. ), Zed Books.
GBF At the same time, biotechnological ambitions force indigenous peoples to This part of Central and East africa is characterized by the following factors http://www.gbf.ch/ab_received.asp?no=3&lg=EN&app=&now=1
RCA: Kenya 10 percent indigenous beliefs or nontraditional Christian faiths the unreachedpeople groups of the Pokot in Alale and the orma in Titila and Daba. http://www.rca.org/mission/africa/kenya/
Extractions: 6 percent Muslim Social situation: Crime is high in the cities. Kenya's border with Somalia (on the east) is the site of violence and kidnappings, and ties to Muslim extremist groups are suspected. In Kenya's northern half, ethnic and tribal rivalries and armed banditry recur. Economic situation: Unemployment is high, violence has pushed tourism revenues down, and drought, political upheaval, market reforms, global recession, and corruption have disturbed the economy's stability. Agriculture employs 75 percent of the workforce, and half of the people live in poverty. RCA mission focus: Evangelism and community development projects including health, agriculture, animal health, income generation, water development, and education among the unreached people groups of the Pokot in Alale and the Orma in Titila and Daba. Mission partners: The Africa Inland Church (AIC)
Annual Reviews - Error Physical and cultural genocide of various indigenous peoples. In Conservationin africa People, Policies and Practices, ed. D Anderson, RH Grove, pp. http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.235
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SDNP Bangladesh Reports of research in progress from India, South africa, China and Brazil were might be more acceptable to some NGOs and indigenous peoples if these http://www.sdnbd.org/sdi/issues/climate_change/cop6/info-survey.htm
Extractions: As government ministers gather in The Hague for the UN conference on climate change, the president of the talks, the Dutch environment minister, Jan Pronk, has warned there is no guarantee of success for international efforts to halt global warming. U.S. blasted at Hague conference for proposed use of 'carbon sinks' Environmentalists lashed out at the United States on Thursday for what they allege is a cynical scheme to turn the Amazon and other primal forests into "carbon sinks" to soak up greenhouse gases. They said the proposal was a blatant attempt to dump the problem of global warming onto the world's poor countries and get out of making costly cuts in energy consumption at home.
Key Notes For many decades these indigenous animal genetic resources were perceived as This breed is owned by the orma people in the Tana River District, http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/Y3970E/y3970e02a.htm
Extractions: Abstract Introduction Local or indigenous livestock breeds play an important, even crucial role for sustainable rural livelihoods and the utilization of marginal ecological areas. Besides providing a wide variety of products, they yield important non-monetary benefits by enabling poor and landless people to access and utilize communally owned grazing areas, by producing dung that is vital to sustain intensive crop cultivation, by being a component of indigenous rituals and social exchange systems, and by representing a mobile bank account that can be cashed in at times of need. They thus form an essential component of sustainable rural livelihoods. For many decades these indigenous animal genetic resources were perceived as unproductive and inherently inferior to high-performance or improved breeds and, as a consequence, they were subjected to cross-breeding or even replacement with exotic breeds. As a result of this and various other factors, the number of indigenous livestock breeds has declined rapidly during the twentieth century. About one-third of the more than 7 000 livestock breeds (including poultry) registered in the FAO global database are regarded as threatened by extinction (Scherf, 2000). The revival of interest in these local animal genetic resources can be attributed to the following factors:
IK Monitor Articles (9-1) For decades, local or indigenous livestock breeds were regarded as inferior For example, the orma Boran cattle kept by the orma people in the Tana River http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/9-1/kohler.html
Extractions: Contents IK Monitor (9-1) IKDM Homepage ikdm@nuffic.nl Ilse Köhler-Rollefson Intellectual property rights regime necessary for traditional livestock raisers This article discusses the need to recognize the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of pastoralists and other traditional domestic animal raisers in the light of the growing interest in making use of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock breeds. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which has the global mandate for the conservation of domestic animal diversity, about one-third of the 5000 officially documented livestock breeds are threatened with extinction and are dying out at the rate of almost two per week. At the same time, the value of local breeds and their advantages over high-performance breeds are becoming increasingly evident (FAO 1999). Disease resistance of indigenous breeds Adapting animals to new and unfavourable environments requires care and determination. The Tzotzil women of Chiapas, Mexico, developed their own breed of sheep - which are able to survive and produce under very challenging circumstances - from stock brought over by the Spanish conquerors (Perezgrovas 1996). The Fulani who inhabit the Sahel zone of Africa systematically and gradually expose animals to tsetse-infested areas, resulting in the survival of cattle in environments that were previously considered unsafe for them (Blench 1999).
Securing Tomorrow's Food indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, March 2001 For example, theorma Boran cattle kept by the orma people in the Tana River District of Kenya http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/ikmonitor9-1.htm
Extractions: PDF version 108 kb, 4 pages Ilse Köhler-Rollefson This article discusses the need to recognize the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of pastoralists and other traditional domestic animal raisers in the light of the growing interest in making use of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock breeds. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which has the global mandate for the conservation of domestic animal diversity, about one-third of the 5000 officially documented livestock breeds are threatened with extinction and are dying out at the rate of almost two per week. At the same time, the value of local breeds and their advantages over high-performance breeds are becoming increasingly evident (FAO 1999). For decades, local or indigenous livestock breeds were regarded as inferior to the high-performance breeds developed in the North. Cross-breeding with exotic animals has led to the dilution of indigenous breeds, and this is one of several factors responsible for a very severe narrowing of the genetic base of our domesticated animals. But now more and more reports are indicating that the performance of indigenous breeds is equal to or even better than that of improved or cross-bred animals. In
Kenya-Country Information The first people to settle in Kenya were indigenous African communities who Cushites This group includes the Somali, orma, Rendille, and Borana. http://kabiza.com/Kenya-Country-Information.htm
Extractions: Kenya Country Information (Kenya National Anthem) Kenya's Name Kenya - a wonderful sounding word is named after a mountain of the same name. It was given by the Kikuyu people who lived around present day Mt. Kenya which they referred to as Kirinyaga or Kerenyaga, meaning mountain of whiteness because of its snow capped peak (yes, Africa does have snow capped peaks). Mt Kirinyaga which was the main landmark became synonymous with the territory the British later claimed as their colony. However, the name Kenya arose out of the inability of the British and others to pronounce Kirinyaga correctly. When one hears the name "Kenya," there are images of the savannas, animals, safari trips, the Rift Valley, the Indian Ocean coastline and Lake Victoria but Kenya is over (2003 estimate) 30 million people of various ethnic groups (47) and backgrounds and without having met the people of Kenya, one has not seen the real, living Kenya. Early Visitors and Settlers The first people to settle in Kenya were indigenous African communities who migrated from various parts of the continent (Kenya is made up of various people groupings). Other visitors included traders, explorers, missionaries, slave-traders and travelers who came in from various parts of the world such as Portugal, Arabia, Roman empire, India, Greece and as far as China. They visited mainly the East African Coast from as early as the first century A.D. While the majority of the visitors went back to their countries, some settled, and intermarried with the local populations giving rise to a new Swahili culture along the Coast which has a strong Arabian flavor.
MEMORANDUM THE CASE FOR THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF THE African customary law which governs indigenous peoples - recognizes only Besides the notion of trust lands, indigenous peoples in Kenya have lost http://www.ogiek.org/sitemap/case-memorandum.htm
Extractions: This memorandum has been prepared and submitted to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission by members of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in Kenya. Pastoralists and hunter-gatherers (PHG) have identified themselves as indigenous peoples owing to their culture, relationship and spiritual attachment to their ancestral and traditional territories, in Kenya, and seek to have the new Kenyan Constitution recognize them as such. 2. This Constitution shall obligate the State to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples as stipulated by various international instruments and standards, specifically, ILO Convention 169, the United Nations Declaration on Persons belonging to Ethnic Minorities, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, amongst others, mentioned in this memorandum.
Oromo In Ancient Egypt that Oromo are indigenous to this part of africa, Abyssinian rulers, There are several groups of people in East africa very closely related to the http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/galla.html
Extractions: "This starts an enquiry how the Galla connection could thus appear on monuments. In the clearance and planning of the rock tombs at Qau, Antaeopolis, the peculiar plan of those tombs, with great halls and small chambers annexed, was observed to be closely parallel to that of later Nubian temples. In both tomb and temple the chief work is in the solid rock, while the forecourt is of masonry constructed in front of it. Another peculiarity was the hammer-work excavation of one tomb, which had evidently been done with stone balls, as in the Aswan granite working, and this implies a southern connection". "These people do not appear in any records, and all their monuments have been reappropriated. They left, however, a most striking style of sculpture, in the sphinxes which were later removed to Tanis, but seem originally to have come from El Kab, where a piece of such a sphinx has been found.The type is closely like that of the Galla. The evidence that all the earlier sculptures of Tanis were collected there by Ramessu II seems clear; and that these sphinxes are earlier than the Hyksos is certain by those kings having appropriated them. No period seems so likely for them as the 7th to the 10th dynasties. The type was heavily bearded, with bushy hair".
East Africa Living Encyclopedia The principal nonindigenous ethnic minorities are the Arabs and Asians. With a Pre-Historic People The Akikuyu of British East africa. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kethnic.htm
NGO Regional Focal Points Horoi, Rex; Foundation of the peoples of the South Pacific International (Fiji) Mulenkei, Lucy; indigenous Information Network; Box 7490800200 http://thegef.org/Partners/NGO_regional_contacts.html
Extractions: Executing Agencies Bilateral Development Cooperation Agencies Private Sector Nongovernmental Organizations ... NGO Regional Focal Points Updated September 2005 Salah, Sahabi Association Recherche Climat Environnement (ARCE) BP 4250 Ibn Rochd, 31037 Oran Algeria Tel: (213) 41 42 31 16 Fax: (213) 41 53 07 38/41 42 58 67 E-mail: salah_sahabi@yahoo.com
EDC News No 6-7 (Dec 2001-Jan 2002) KENYA Livelihoods clashes the orma and the Pokomo in Tana in a string ofviolent conflicts between so-called settlers and indigenous people that have http://www.edcnews.se/Archive/2001-2002-06-07.html
OneWorld AIDSRadio - calls for more openness in africa UN call for greater openness in africaCOMPETICI? HIV as it threatens to wipe out the nation s indigenous people. http://www.aidschannel.org/article/archive/5545/
Extractions: US blamed for women's deaths US policies on international sex education and reproductive health are contributing to childbirth- and abortion-related deaths as well as the spread of HIV among women around the world, say participants at an international conference in London. more from kaisernetwork.org (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Eco-Index: In Print & Online (Volume 1 covers Europe, the Atlantic Islands, africa and the islands of the indigenous People. Title Models for Recognizing indigenous Land Rights in http://www.eco-index.org/new/print-online/index.cfm
Extractions: Skip navigation. Thousands of documents are now available on the World Wide Web. Here's a brief list, organized by topic, of those we think could be useful to you. Agriculture Biodiversity Botany Climate and Climate Change ... Wildlife management Title: Common Good, Common Future: How Eco-agriculture Can Help Feed the World Eco-Index Summary: This report recognizes that unsustainable practices of many current agricultural methods threatens global biodiversity and notes that agricultural production in many rural regions, home to a significant variety of flora and fauna, as well as people, will need to continue supplying food for a growing population. The study concludes that integrating science and policy can result both in productive agriculture and effective conservation. The authors offer six strategies that aim to conserve natural habitat and resources, produce adequate amounts of food, and provide sufficient income to farmers. Each strategy is illustrated with case studies, several of them from Central America.
Extractions: July 1999 Background The World Trade Organisation's agreement on intellectual property, known as TRIPS, sets out minimal standards for patent and other forms of intellectual property protection in the 134 WTO member states. If countries do not provide these standards, they can be punished through trade sanctions. TRIPS Article 27.3(b) requires all countries to protect intellectual property over plant varieties, the basis of food security. According to the agreement, this can be done by patent law or by "effective 'sui generis' system". Developing countries must implement this rule by 1 January 2000 and least developed countries by 1 January 2006. However, the article is being formally reviewed by the WTO members right now and could possibly be changed before the implementation deadline. The review of Article 27.3(b), which has been going on in Geneva over the 1999 series of TRIPS Council meetings, has revealed that the WTO membership is unclear as to what an "effective 'sui generis' system" is or should be. "Sui generis" simply means special or unique, leaving the matter completely open to interpretation.
GBF Lucy (Ms), IUCN Regional Office for Eastern africa, PO Box 68200 College ofIndigenous Australian peoples, Southern Cross University PO Box 157 New http://www.gbf.ch/liste_part_old.asp?no=3&lg=EN&app=
