From Data to Action: Community-Based Irrigation for Food Security among Maasai Women in Kenya

BY SAMANTE ANNE FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

Climate insecurity and drought are forcing Maasai men to migrate with their livestock, leaving women and their children alone. After conducting surveys, the Oltepesi community identified this problem and received support from the Indigenous Navigator to create an irrigation system through which to grow fruit and vegetables. As a result, the women are now producing food for the household and selling the surplus, which gives them economic stability. It allows them to send their children to school, laying the foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty.

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The Indigenous Navigator: from Data Collection to Self-Determination

BY TORA JENSEN FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

The Indigenous Navigator is an initiative created to support Indigenous Peoples through data. Established more than 10 years ago, the programme has generated information from communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The survey process generates awareness of their rights in the communities and acts as a catalyst for collective reflection. This tool therefore provides people and their support organizations with access to systematized data that strengthens their capacity to claim their rights. True empowerment thus does not come through imposing solutions but through providing communities with the tools with which to define their own future.

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The Social, Economic and Cultural Impact of EACOP on Indigenous Peoples in Tanzania

BY EDWARD POROKWA FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a 1,445-kilometre cross-border project, is designed to transport crude oil from Uganda's Lake Albert basin to the coast of Tanzania for international export. With a construction budget of US$3.5 billion and a planned capacity of 216,000 barrels per day, this project threatens the livelihoods of Indigenous communities, including the Maasai, Hadzabe, Akie, Barbaig, Sukuma, and Nyamwezi, across eight Tanzanian regions.

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Defending Customary Territory: A Collective Conservation Initiative of the Daai Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples’ rights to land, territories and resources is not legally recognized in Myanmar (Christian Erni, et al., 2019).[1] Rather, the customary lands of Indigenous Peoples are at the disposal of the government (VFV Land Law 2012, and 2018), allowing the state to use and demarcate the land as they wish, turning it into conservation areas and granting right-to-use concessions to companies for resource extraction and monocrop agriculture, for example. This situation often triggers conflict between the state and Indigenous communities, which has been the case with the Daai Indigenous Peoples’ territory.

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