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As part of Aadhimalai, small-scale Adivasi women, are ensuring sustainable management of the biosphere as gender just climate solution!

Indigenous women of the Lenca community are reclaiming their ancestral lands and restoring ecosystems through gender just climate solution!

In Mbiame Village, in northwest Cameroon, women are using the gender just climate solution of Analog Forestry to restore degraded ecosystems!

In Nepal, the Women’s Empowerment Center (WEC) is leading a gender just climate solution!

  Amidst the diverse terrains of Guatemala, the Consejo de Mujeres Indígenas y Biodiversidad (CMIB), a platform of Indigenous women’s organizations focused on biodiversity and climate change, stands resilient. As a torchbearer for Indigenous women’s rights and voices, they’ve been weaving together the tapestries of grassroots experiences to echo in global forums like COP28. “OurContinue reading “From Local to Global: Indigenous Voices in Climate Dialogues”

Long Story Short: In Zambia’s Rufunsa district, the Mukonka village, rich in natural resources and biodiversity, faced severe environmental degradation due to illegal logging and charcoal production, leading to loss of streams, forests, and traditional food sources. The women of Mukonka, rooted in eco-feminist principles, turned this crisis around by reviving Indigenous seeds. Through advocacy,Continue reading “Seeds of Change: How The Women Of The Mukonka Village Are Reviving Its Ecology – One Seed At A Time”

In just one hundred years, industrialization, consumerism, individualism, depredation, looting, and violence have changed the climate like never before in the history of the planet. And even though the less industrialized countries do not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions as much as the more industrialized ones, structurally excluded peoples bear the brunt of the impactsContinue reading “Global warming is violence against women”

I grew up in the Niger Delta in Nigeria as a member of the indigenous farming and fishing community of Yaataah. For decades, our families lived in constant contact with the waterways. My grandmothers relied on them to collect our food and to make pottery to sustain our family. Unfortunately, things have changed. Since theContinue reading “Restoring mangrove forests to fight the consequences of fossil fuel extraction – Nigeria”

My name is Purna Kumari Magar and I’m part of the Magar Indigenous community in Nepal. As part of this community, my life depends on land and other natural resources, such as the Seti river. However, with the Tanahu hydropower project, our way of life is under threat. The project, financed by the Asian DevelopmentContinue reading “Indigenous knowledge to mitigate climate change impacts – Nepal”

We, women of the Qom Indigenous community of Santa Rosa, have long been trying to protect our lands against the rapid intrusion of extractivist projects which have caused high rates of deforestation and environmental destruction in our territory, the Paraguayan Chaco. The conflict we are dealing with now, involves a model of so-called “sustainable development”Continue reading “Qom women protecting their lands against degenerative eucalyptus monocultures – Paraguay”