Local communities

Defenders of the Sinjajevina pastoral communities victory, Montenegro

The peaceful and persistent resistance against the military threat that loomed over the Sinjajevina plateaus (the largest mountain…

The author of the beautifully illustrated 375-page volume “Territories of life. Exploring vitality of governance for conserved and…

Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, co-founder, member of the Council of Elders, and Global Coordinator during the first 12 years…

Dr. J. Stephen Lansing, professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, explains that along a typical Balinese…

This study examines the diversity and extent of nature contribution to people by church forests in a fragmented…

Church forests are the last refuges of many species in Ethiopia and may act as stepping stones for…

This article offers a global sketch of spirituality understood as the highest mode of political consciousness that continues…

The Mountain Partnership (an international voluntary alliance, operating within the framework of FAO, dedicated to improving the lives…

After six expressions of gratitude, this new declaration contains ten solemn commitments that all members of the TICCA…

Territories and areas that Indigenous peoples and local communities govern, manage, and conserve (hereafter territories of life) are…