Contributed by Edmond Dounias, Congress Coordinator The Sentimiel program aims to valorize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) tied to beekeeping and honey collecting through a network that centralizes the contact information and the characteristics of the groups of people involved in these activities. The goal is to federate diverse local actors who possess empirical knowledge about bees and their productions and who, by their regular...
Contributed by the Global Diversity Foundation The ICCA Consortium, the Global Diversity Foundation (GDF) and the BEDE Network jointly proposed an international workshop (May 17-19, 2012) on “Conservation by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Advances in Participatory Action Research, Dissemination and Advocacy”, a follow-up to the workshop on “Community Conservation in Practice” held before the 2010 ISE Congress in Tofino,...
Contributed by Nemer Narchi, 2010-2012 ISE Student Representative This workshop was sponsored by The Christensen Fund (TCF). The theme chosen for this second edition was “Brick by Brick”: Laying the Foundations for the Future of Biocultural Diversity Research. The workshop was held in the cottage Gîtes de Briandes located in Lunas, France. Days before the celebration of the 2012 ISE Congress, the ISE held the 2nd Workshop for Emerging...
Contributed by Edmond Dounias, Congress Coordinator The 2012 ISE Congress was organized in four complementary and interconnected components: a scientific colloquium; side events open to the general public; educational projects carried out by pupils throughout the region; and an indigenous forum. Scientific Colloquium More than 700 delegates (scientists, students, members of civil society, policy makers, journalists, and representatives of...
Contributed by Edmond Dounias, Congress Coordinator Congress Organizers & Sponsors The success of the Congress wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts and contributions of the Congress organizers and sponsors. The preparation of the 2012 Congress was headed by scientists belonging to the two research units of Montpellier, which federates all researchers of Montpellier working in the field of ethnobiology: the research unit...
