Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica - CDB

Estimados amigos:

Esta semana pueblos indígenas de todo el mundo se han unido a líderes de gobiernos internacionales en la 11.ª Conferencia de las Partes en el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (COP 11) en Hyderabad, India. Durante esta importante conferencia se mantendrán negociaciones cruciales relacionadas con los pueblos indígenas, los cuales están reivindicando la protección de sus tierras tradicionales y llamando la atención sobre las dimensiones sociales y culturales de la conservación y el respeto de sus derechos.  Al mismo tiempo, las Partes en el Convenio evalúan el progreso y eficacia de la labor del CDB hasta la fecha y conciben nuevos planes y soluciones para la crisis mundial de la diversidad biológica.

Many decisions of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contain language on indigenous peoples and local communities*, for instance on their full and effective participation, impacts on their lands and livelihoods, the value and contribution of their traditional knowledge and customary sustainable use, and the need for support in capacity building.

"Since almost a decade back, the Resilience and Development Programme (SwedBio) and partners such as Forest Peoples Programme, Tebtebba Foundation and the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) have been working for strengthening governance in indigenous territories based on customary sustainable use. The work by SwedBio and partners was initiated by supporting good cases, including presenting them and describing the key factors for success behind. These pilot cases, covering a broad range of social ecological systems, have successively formed a base for building better international policies that adopt customary sustainable use (CSU) as a means for strengthened resilience of biological diversity and contribution to human wellbeing among indigenous peoples and local communities."