Project Overview

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We are a global  interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary Team. Our membership is global from 11 countries, 17 universities, and 10 Indigenous Nations and local community organizations. The Team is also culturally and ethnically diverse - our languages include Inuvialuit, Denesọłiné, Tamasheq, Quechua, Karen, Kabyé, Peulh, Nhēēgatú, Fon, Kazakh,Mongolian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Italian. Half of our Team (50%) self-identify as Indigenous with another 15% being members of “vulnerable communities” in the global-south (Kabyé, Peulh, Kazakh/Mongolian, Ribeirinhos). 

I am a Tuareg (Indigenous) woman from the Sahel region of Africa; am President of a women’s rights organization called Tin Hiinan and also a UNESCO Chair (Co-Chair) hosted at the University of Alberta. I have worked over the last 2 decades on issues of Indigenous rights, health and language revitalization.  I am former president of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, based in New York. My research and education background is in health sciences and human rights. I am a graduate of the Medical School of the Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria and have a Master's degree in Humanitarian Action (University of Geneva) and B.Ed. (University of Ottawa).

I am a Quechua (K’uchea) community leader based in Cusco, Peru with a background in agro-ecology (BSc from McGill University). I have worked as a human rights advocate and food security leader in my own country and am currently the President of Asociación ANDES in Cusco, Peru. In this organization, I work with women and men, youth and elders, nurturing the evolution and diffusion of Indigenous epistemologies and conceptual frameworks, including Biocultural Heritage and its application in the planning and management of Indigenous territorialities. I will lead the proposed project in the Andes, if funded and play a co-coordinating role as Co-PI of the project (drawing on my research on Indigenous food systems) to ensure that we are able to achieve our objectives (Obj.1-3) across all biocultural regions and have a measure impact. 

I am a senior researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and a Professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Environment and Society. My research has focused on landscape ecology, land change, geospatial research and innovation for the environment and society. In this project, I will lead fieldwork in Brazil with local communities with Bonada-Fuchs and Moran, mapping initiatives of sustainable land management in Amazonian communities. I will also support local community leaders (drawing on my experience in ecology) to support the mapping of ecological knowledges.

I am an Assistant Professor of International Development and Sustainability at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and am the Director of the Institute of Management in Latin America. I have been working with Indigenous Peoples and local communities for over 15 yrs. with a focus on the impacts of development. In this project, I will support the development of participatory mapping methodologies (Obj1) as well as support policy analysis as it relates to Brazil as well as broader themes of sustainability

I am a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. I direct the Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes and am a Senior Fellow at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University-Bloomington. I hold an external professorship with the Environment-Society program of Campinas, Brazil. I also work across diverse disciplines, including agricultural sciences, anthropology and geospatial analysis, to address questions of human-environmental interaction from local to global scales.

I am a Professor at the Université de Quebec -Abitibi-Témiscamingue. As a Canada Research Chair in Integration of Environment in the Mine Life Cycle, my research is focused on improving environmental decisions throughout the life cycles of mines, with a particular focus on managing mine waste (in operations and at closure). My role in the project is to examine how mining within the context of the energy transition might be made more sustainable; I will contribute to work associated with Obj.,1 to identify and map sites that may present risks to the food-water-land security of

I am the leader of Ribeirinhos Council and fought for over a decade against the damages brought by Belo Monte, the third largest hydropower dam in the world, and I see an opportunity to further the action to ban dams from the Amazon and to value sustainable practices of the Ribeirinhos people.

I am an Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economies at the University of Alberta; my PhD is in Applied Economics and Management (Cornell University). My role in the project will be in supporting research and analysis on the global patterns and trends of climate change and other stresses on food-water-land security and the ways in which the innovations of Indigenous Peoples and local communities might be recognized in agricultural policy.

I am an Inuk youth and former director of the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Organization in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. I am passionate about filmmaking and working with other youth in my community on environmental stewardship projects, including caring for the Tarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area. I have served as an ambassador for C3, which is an initiative of the Students on Ice Foundation. My role in the project will be to lead the research on climate change innovation in the Arctic region based on the Indigenous Knowledge of Inuvialuit youth. 

I am a member of a traditional community of Kara, Togo. He has published a conference book together with Runge and has collaborated on diverse projects related to climate and environmental change in West Africa.

I am Denesọłiné youth who was raised on the land, caribou hunting, by my grandparents and parents. We have lived and cared for the caribou and areas such as Ɂehdacho kué (big caribou crossing) since time immemorial. I have worked for the Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation Band in mapping and care of our Indigenous Knowledge (e.g., Indigenous placenames mapping) for over 10 years. My main role in the project will be to work with elder and community members to protect the caribou and water from the impacts of rare-earth mining

I am social anthropologist (originally from Cuba) with a PhD from the University of Florida with a forty-year history of interdisciplinary research (anthropology and environmental science) focused on natural history in the Amazon. I focus on issues of social adaptation to ecological change. This work is evidenced in 12 books, 16 edited volumes and more than 240 journal articles. It has resulted in academic recognitions (e.g., Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 

I am currently John A. Hannah, Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and a member of the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences. During the last 30 years, I have worked with diverse local communities in the Amazon on issues of climate change, food security and bioeconomy (with funding from many agencies). I have mentored and directed more than 14 Brazilian students to PhD degrees in both Anthropology and Environmental Sciences. As Co-Principal Investigator, my main role in this project will be in supporting the IPvLC leads in co-coordinating the project and the work in all regions (Obj.1-3) particularly in relation to supporting innovations that limit impacts on climate and produce food-water-land security. I will work with Francineide and others in the Amazon; I will be responsible for the administration of the NSF funding.

I am a Professor at Meiji University in Japan with a background in climatology and expertise in environmental studies. My role in the program is to look at the latest research on industrial pollution, share my discussions with my students on this topic, and to help us re-examine the lessons we should be applying to today's society.

I am an Inuvialuit leader from the arctic community of Paulatuk in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I grew up harvesting beluga, caribou, and other resources in the Inuvialuit region, and I learned from my Elders how to respect and care for our territory. I have worked in many capacities serving my community both in Paulatuk, in the Northwest Territories and internationally. In 2015, I was elected to represent my region and served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Government of the Northwest Territories for four years. I retired from government have returned to serve the Inuvialuit region as a Chair of one of the oldest co-management boards in Canada (Inuvialuit Fisheries Joint Management Committee). I am also the Vice President of a pan-Inuit organization (Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada), which is a non-profit organization led by a board of directors comprising the elected leaders of the four land-claims settlement regions: Inuvialuit, Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, and Nunavut. 

I am a Professor at the University of Alberta, a UNESCO Co-Chair (shared with Aboubakrine) and a former Canada Research Chair. I have led or co-led 5 major Tri-Council and international projects which produced measurable academic and other benefits to IPvLCs.  I am the currently Principal Investigator of a NFRF-Transformation project which is synergistic but not overlapping (i.e., there was no explicit theme of work or budget related to climate change in the NFRF-T project). If funded I will play a key administrative role but also support the leadership of the project by IPvLC; this will include ensuring efficient and synergistic use of NFRF-T and NFRF-I resources, supporting research led in Canada. 

 I am an Inuvialuit elder, hunter and community member from Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. I have worked for decades in my own community teaching youth about Inuvialuit traditions. Although I lost my arm in an accident as a child, I have been an active land user and support educating our youth and supporting research (e.g., beluga monitoring). My role in the project will be to support Inuvialuit youth as they develop climate change innovations based on our Inuvialuit knowledge that can improve our food security and support our continued leadership in the arctic.

I am a Professor of Geoecology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt with a 40-year history of working on a range of scientific and development cooperation projects in Western and Central Tropical Africa involving collaborations with local universities and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Within the scope of a DAAD short-term stay in 2018, I held lectures and organized field trips for Togolese master students. I have worked in west Africa with communities in Togo/Benin on issues of climate change and food security over the last 15 years and have aimed to strengthen capacity for research and adaptive capacity to climate change in these regions. For example, I have been involved in organizing a conference (“Natural resources, socio-ecological sensitivity and Climate Change”) in the Volta-Oti Basin of Kara, Togo and I also co-lead a joint Master’s programme involving the First Technical University (Ibadan, Nigeria) and the Université de Kara (Togo). As a Co-Principal Investigator, I will collaborate with the six other Co-PIs to lead the project and collaborate with IPvLC partners in West Africa (Togo) to carry out research in this bioregion.

I am a Karen (Indigenous) elder based in Chiang Mail, Thailand. I have a Doctorate in Sociology and I am currently the Director of Pgakenyaw (Karen) for Sustainable Development (PASD), and a member of the Advisory Board Committee of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation (AIPP). In the last decade I founded and was the first director of the Inter Mountain Education and Culture in Thailand Association  and the Regional Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples in Mainland SEA (IKAP).

I am a francophone scholar, Professor/Vice-dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on Indigenous peoples’ rights in the context of natural resources extraction in Canada and globally. I would conduct coordinated legal and policy analysis (Obj.3) with the aim of supporting IPvLCs in policy impact.

I am an Associate Professor of Sociology, Mongolian National University of Education. My research focuses on mapping of climate change impacts on Mongolian herders including women. Based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, I will focus on leading the research in this research (Obj1-2) as well as supporting gender in research in all regions. 

I am Professor in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology / Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basle Switzerland. I focus on issues of livestock health and zoonosis risk in pastoralist communities. My role in the project would be in support of IPvLCs in the Sahel to carry out their research; and also contribute to policy analysis related to climate change and public health (OneHealth). 

I am the Research Program Administrator and Manager in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta. I am a descendant of a nomadic herder who raised over a thousand sheep and goats for the Mongolian state during the socialist era. In the past, my research focused on lactic acid bacteria of airag, fermented mare's milk, a stable drink that is enjoyed by many Mongolians, especially during the summer months. I also classified some beer spoilage lactic acid bacteria using molecular and protein analysis which led me to a brief research with misfolded-proteins (prions). 

I am Post Doctoral researcher at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.
I am very interested in the human-environment interaction. Particulary, I worked with indegenious people in the north west of Madagascar to try to understand their need and expectation regarding to natural ressources, but also to find a collectiv solution for a sustainable natural ressource management. Currently, I am working in the project Indigenious Peoples of West Africa (IPWA). I work in a team to conduct a research among the indegenious peoples in Togo and Benin. 

I am a PhD student at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. My study background is in Global Change Geography (Master) and in Social Work (Bachelor). I have experience in climate change and environmental research and in working with people from different cultural backgrounds. My role in the project Indigenous People of West Africa will be to conduct research on climate change adaptation of Indigenous peoples in Togo and Benin.

I am a graduate student in the Risk and Resilience MSc program at the University of Alberta with an interest in wildlife biology. I am originally from the community of Cold Lake, Alberta

I am a MSc  student at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.