30 November - 5 December 2015; Puerto López, Ecuador - ICCA-GSI organized a regional workshop in Ecuador to promote knowledge exchange among key regional actors and build their capacities in strengthening the appropriate recognition of ICCAs as well as improving its effectiveness in the region - within and outside the framework of the ICCA-GSI pilot countries. Key actors from participating countries, representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities that govern and manage their TICCAs, relevant government agencies and civil society support organizations, GEF SGP National Coordinators.

South America is home to ancient cultures, home to hundreds of millions of people and one of the regions of the world with mega-biodiversity. So it is not surprising that the subcontinent includes a huge variety of territories and areas governed, managed and preserved by its indigenous peoples and communities. These territories cover forests and mountains, marine and coastal areas, lakes and rivers, coral reefs, grasslands and watersheds. 

The workshop report is only available in Spanish.

This guide is intended to serve as the basis for the implementation of the Innovative Agro-ecology component of the GEF Small Grants Programme in its 6th Operational phase, and to provide guidance for the agro-ecosystem outcome of the COMDEKS landscape approach. It provides conceptual and methodological elements for developing and promoting agroecological innovations within country strategies to address agroecosystem resilience in specific production landscapes. This guidance note explains basic agroecological concepts, principles and its application in the design and management of biodiverse and resilient farming systems. Building on the COMDEKS landscape approach, the guide strengthens its agroecosystem component to more effectively build the social, economic and ecological resilience of production landscapes.

The second COMDEKS case study publication with the title “A Community-based Approach to Resilient and Sustainable Landscapes: Lessons from Phase II of the COMDEKS Programme” was launched in October 2016 at the “1st Conference of Biocultural Diversity” in Nanao City, Japan. This publication shows how much progress has been made in defining the goals, planning processes, funding mechanisms, and monitoring systems needed to make sustainable landscape management a reality. The case studies from COMDEKS Phase 2 countries provide valuable examples of the COMDEKS approach and the improvements in ecosystem services, and rural productivity, income, and community empowerment that result.

This booklet belongs to a series of publications about biodiversity products processing for the sustainable use of Cerrado. It provides communities with basic guidelines towards good practices of wild collection, management and fruit processing of pequi (Caryocar brasiliense).

This booklet belongs to a series of publications about biodiversity products processing for the sustainable use of Cerrado. It provides communities with basic guidelines towards good practices of wild collection, management and fruit processing of babaçu (Orbygnea phalerata and Orbygnea speciosa).

Based on the 20-year experience of SGP Brazil supporting community-based productive projects, this booklet is designed to help Brazil's productive organizations to regularize their entrepreneur according to the current fiscal, sanitary and environmental regulations.

The book proposes to register and share tree cultivation techniques and practices in the Cerrado developed or improved by small farmers. The book hopes to encourage conservation and restoration of natural resources and strive for autonomy of farmers in the use of techniques adapted to local conditions.