Convention sur la diversité biologique (CDB)

Chers amis,

Cette semaine, les peuples autochtones du monde entier se joignent aux leaders gouvernementaux des différents pays à l’occasion de la 11ème Conférence des Parties (CdP 11) de la Convention sur la diversité biologique à Hyderabad, en Inde. Cette importante réunion comporte des négociations cruciales pour les peuples autochtones, qui luttent pour la protection de leurs terres traditionnelles et attirent l’attention sur les aspects sociaux et culturels de la conservation et le respect de leurs droits, alors que les Parties à la Convention évaluent les progrès et l’efficacité du travail de la CDB à ce jour et élaborent de nouveaux plans et solutions pour affronter la crise mondiale de la biodiversité.

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."