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These videos and clips showcase Indigenous crafting in Guyana, including some of the challenges and solutions.
These videos showcase the range of solutions being practiced by communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka to conserve and management the urban wetlands.
These videos were produced as part of the ‘Grassroots Visual Storytelling about Group Food-Growing’ Project. This project explores the multiple benefits and social connections from community food activities through participatory digital storytelling, and identifies and shares the most effective strategies that have been deployed during the Covid-19 crisis. The project is a collaboration between The Open University, the Cobra Collective, Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming and Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC).
These short films are a series of tutorials to help facilitators and community researchers to use participatory video.
In these videos, you will see the impact of the Darwin Initiative "Traditional Knowledge in Guyana" project on Indigenous communities, Indigenous organisations, and governmental organisations.
These video shorts highlight different aspects of the Darwin Initiative "Traditional Knowledge in Guyana" project, and its impact.
In a process of video-mediated dialogue, participatory videos were made by community researchers in Masakenarî, Guyana about traditional knowledge, its role in biodiversity conservation, and the relationship between the community and the Kanashen Amerindian Protected Area. The video was screened to the Kanashen Amerindian Protected Area Management Team, and a response video made, which was then taken back to the community for further discussion and dialogue.
In a process of video-mediated dialogue, participatory videos were made by community researchers in the North Rupununi, Guyana about traditional knowledge, its role in biodiversity conservation, and the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Iwokrama International Centre who manages the Iwokrama Forest protected area. In addition, a video was made with members of the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB) who are an Indigenous organisation representing the communities of the North Rupununi. These videos were screened to the Iwokrama International Centre, and a response video made, which was then taken back to the communities for further discussion and dialogue.
In a process of video-mediated dialogue, participatory videos were made by community researchers in South-Central Rupununi, Guyana about traditional knowledge, its role in biodiversity conservation, and the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Kanuku Mountains Protected Area. In addition, a video was made with members of the Kanuku Mountains Community Representative Group (KMCRG) who are an Indigenous organisation representing the communities living around the protected area. These videos were screened to the Protected Areas Commission, Guyana to stimulate discussion and dialogue.
This videos provides a summary of Project Cobra that took place between 2011 and 2015. It was a partnership between Indigenous associations, academic institutions and civil society organisations to support Indigenous communities in the Guiana Shield of South America to identify, record and share their own solutions, and showcase these to the rest of the world.
These participatory videos about fire were made by Kremkrem, a team of Indigenous researchers from the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory in Brazil, and supported by the Instituto Raoni,
The research was funded by the Open University and commissioned by Cobra Collective Community Interest Company in relation to an envisaged project on supporting a community owned approach to food security in Kodagu district, Karnataka state, India