Pecha Kucha Presentation Style4/23/2021
It considers the lose-lose scenarios that can easily arise when such rights are ignored, and the win-win possibilities for local communities when their land rights are recognised.He shows how indigenous cultures around the world are being impacted through their loss of land, languages and ancient teachings that could be important guides for turning the tides in the global challenges we now face.Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, (his first name pronounced Shoe-Tez-Caht) is a 15-year-old indigenous environmental activist, hip-hop artist and public speaker from Colorado.
He is also the youth director of Earth Guardians, a International youth based environmental non-profit organization that is committed to protecting the water, air, earth, and atmosphere. Locally, he has worked on successful campaigns to get pesticides out of parks, regulate coal ash and help achieve bans and moratoria on fracking in Colorado cities. He has traveled across all the U.S. His work has been featured on PBS, Showtime, National Geographic, Rolling Stones, HBO, etc.He received also the 2013 Community Service Award from the President Obama and was the youngest of 24 change-makers chosen to serve on the Presidents Youth Council. He is the 2015 recipient of the Peace 1st Prize and the 1st Nickelodeon Halo Award. Bill Mckibben of 350.org calls Xiuhtezcatl an impressive spokesman for a viewpoint the world needs to hear. She is also an active member of IFSA (the International Forestry Students Association). Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in UBC and in collaboration with Amazonian indigenous people, continuing to investigate their systems of self-government and mechanisms of self-determination using indigenous theories and methodologies. By 2030, we will need 50 more food and energy and 30 more fresh water. Prof. Sayed Azam-Ali has been the Chief Executive Officer of Crops For the Future (CFF) since August 2011. After his first degree in Plant Biology at the University of Wales, Prof. Azam-Ali completed his PhD in Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India, returning to Environmental Physics at the University of Nottingham in 1983. He then worked as a plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Nottingham where he became Professor of Tropical Agronomy in 2006. Azam-Ali coordinated three major EU-funded Programmes on Bambara groundnut and was a principal partner in two other EU programmes. In 2008, Prof. Azam-Ali was appointed as Vice-Provost (Research and Internationalisation) at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus where he successfully secured the European Union funded MYEULINK programme that links major research universities in Malaysia with counterparts in Europe. He also coordinated the successful bid by the University of Nottingham to co-host the global CFF organisation against stiff international competition. Prof. Azam-Ali was instrumental in the establishment of the CFF research centre in 2011 as the worlds first centre research on underutilised plants for food and non-food uses. He is also the Chair in Global Food Security at the University of Nottingham. This message is illustrated in the form of a story about Hourias findings while working in Northern Mali; where the daily livelihoods of a community drastically changed to adapt to a new landscape. Houria Djoudi works for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), with a background in socio-ecological systems analysis. Her main focus lies on management of natural resources and climate change adaptation. Houria has been with CIFOR since 2008, and is based in Bogor, Indonesia.
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