THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OBSERVATORY NETWORK (IPON): THE CLIMATE-FOOD-HEALTH NEXUS

• Antragstellerin: Professorin Dr. Sonoko Bellingrath-Kimura, seit 8/2024
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Agrarökonomie, Agrarpolitik, Agrarsoziologie
• Förderung: Förderung seit 2024
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 539522282

Indigenous Peoples globally face profound threats from climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation — threats that are rooted in discrimination, land dispossession, and colonization, and span all of the IPCC’s representative key risks. It is primarily through the nexus with Indigenous food systems that these stresses converge and interact to affect health and well-being. Indigenous knowledges and practices underpin resilience across the food-climate-health nexus, yet they are overlooked and undermined by government policy. New ways of working with Indigenous communities and informing decision making are needed if we are to make sense of and address these interlinked stresses. The Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network (IPON) transforms and rethinks how we understand the food-climate-health nexus from the bottom-up, building on multiple ways of knowing embodied in Indigenous knowledges and science, and in ways that strengthen community resilience to multiple stresses and support actions that benefit Indigenous Peoples. We will develop, operationalize, and maintain Indigenous Observatories that are composed of community leaders, Elders, and youth, decision-makers, and researchers among Indigenous communities across the global south and north, and spanning all of the UN's seven social cultural regions. The Observatories will document, monitor, and examine the lived experiences, stories, responses, and observations of how climate stressors interact with food systems, health, and well-being across partner regions and communities as they play out in real-time and across seasons. This allows us to tease apart the complexity of factors and drivers affecting community resilience and vulnerability and how they differ between and within communities, across seasons, and over time, rooted in the world views and cultures of our Observers. We will co-generate knowledge and capacity to inform policy development and catalyze actions that build on community strengths and address potential vulnerabilities. The Observatories provide a vehicle for strengthening the capacity of communities to document their own knowledge on the links between climate, food, and health, and a space to dialogue with decision makers at regional, national, and global levels on what actions are needed to build resilience. The global scope of IPON provides a grounding for developing scalable insights to inform decision making and advocacy for our partners in UN and Indigenous organizations.

• DFG-Verfahren: Sachbeihilfen
• Internationaler Bezug: Großbritannien, Kanada, USA
• Kooperationspartner: Professor James Ford, Ph.D.; Eranga Galappaththi; Tristan Pearce, Ph.D.
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Harald Kächele, bis 8/2024