Webinar on feminist perspectives to protect Earth ecosystems and fight against climate change: women’s knowledges and collective action initiatives for inclusive governance
Led by Norsk seterkultur, organization with a long experience not only in working with the female livestock sector in its country, but with the valorization of traditional knowledge and the University of Lisboa involved in different participatory processes in Baldíos (portuguese commonlands) involving women.
This webinar will establish the basis of a feminist agenda to protect Earth ecosystems and fight against climate change bringing speakers and facilitating conversations to draw the linkages between social justice, ecological rights and women’s rights. A transversal axis of this webinar will be to identify, value and disseminate womens’ knowledge on ecosystem use, management and care, including Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The webinar will also enhance participants’ digital networking skills through a workshop on blogging and its role for sharing knowledge, and coservation of TEK. The reason is that women’s knowledge is many times marginalized and undervalued, even though women have usually a predominant role in using, collecting, and managing resources in the commonlands, as well as maintaining the social reciprocal links that maintain community life, which are key for an inclusive governance. Local Ecological Knowledge have developed through knowledge transfer from generation to generation through experimentation, experiences, adaptation, and co-evolution over long periods of time being a rich source of information on how to care for ecosystems for sustainable food production, animal welfare and human survival under marginal conditions.
The webinar will invite female European speakers, both academic and practitoners (women and leaders of community-based conservation initiatives) to give different perspectives on the role women play in their communities 1) as the users, protectors and managers of natural resources in a historical perspective (both in the past and in the present), 2) as the carriers and cross-generational transmitters of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and 3) as the promoters and leaders of collective action and inclusive governance for the defense of the rights of nature.