Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Insight is a UK/France based organisation pioneering the use of Participatory Video as a tool for empowering individuals and communities. Insight’s Participatory Video methods value local knowledgeⁱ, build bridges between communities and decision-makers and enable people to develop greater control over their own development and the decisions affecting their lives.

Anthropological Approaches to Advocacy and Traditional Right: developing local global feedback for policy advocacy on biocultural diversity

Principal Investigator: Dario Novellino
Co-investigator: Miguel Alexiades
Project dates: 2007-2009
Funding: "Global Biocultural Initiative Program" of The Christensen Fund (TCF)

The toolkit is envisioned as an internet-based multifaceted, multicultural, and multilingual information clearing-house containing supporting material for the Code of Ethics. Components of the toolkit may include: implementation case studies; a handbook/training manual, and supporting materials and mechanisms to assist with resolving conflicts and identifying situations of non-compliance that arise in relation to conducting collaborative research and using the Code of Ethics. Community-based workshops are envisioned as part of the development process. ...

We are very pleased to invite you to join a new on-line forum - The Biocultural Diversity Working Group! The Biocultural Diversity Working (BcD) group (www.wiserearth.org/group/biocultural_diversity) is a place where professionals and community members involved in biocultural diversity work can share experiences, ideas, documents and multimedia resources.

The Baca Institute of Ethnobotany is a nonprofit educational organisation dedicated to the preservation, collection, and research of the indigenous environmental knowledge and the cultural diversity of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It offers community focused seminars and workshops for the lay person, more intensive field schools and internships for graduate credit, and specialized programs for Native American Communities and individuals. *No RSS feed *yes links page