The document discusses strategies for promoting agrobiodiversity and indigenous food sovereignty. The mission is to support stewards of cultural and biological diversity by ensuring socio-ecological resilience, sustaining foodways and livelihoods, and celebrating and revitalizing cultural expression. This includes formal education that incorporates biocultural knowledge, engaged young people in biocultural identity/landscapes, and blending new ideas with traditional knowledge. Specific strategies discussed are supporting associations of communities in Ethiopia's enset landscapes, connecting farmers and researchers, linking universities to craft "Enset Parks" to re-value the crop culturally, and restoring agro-ecosystem processes like water and carbon cycles.

1. Keeping the Future Delicious!
Biocultural Sovereignty +
Agro-Ecosystem Diversity =
Resilience

2. Agro-biodiversity and Indigenous
Peoples Have Co-evolved

4. Christensen Fund Strategic Framework – Mission,
Themes, Shared Outcomes and Cross Cutting Emphasis
Mission –backing the stewards of cultural and biological diversity
Ensuring Sustaining Celebrating & Promoting
Socio-Ecological Foodways & Revitalizing Cultural Knowledge Systems &
Resilience Livelihoods Expression Biocultural Education
Active community Blossoming traditions, Formal education
Capable and vibrant
adaptation to climate and cultural expression & incorporates biocultural
traditional owners and
other changes ceremonies knowledge.
community associations
Ecosystem monitoring and at land/seascapes scales
assessments at community Local voices & biocultural
and biocultural landscapes Expanding relationships diversity respected & Engaged young people
influencing decision making. in biocultural identity
and networks of
Improved diversity & stewards and others, and landscapes and
productivity in within, between and Festival and ceremonies blending new ideas with
gardens, orchards, pasture beyond land/seascapes celebrate biocultural traditional knowledge
s and fisheries diversity.
Increased biocultural and strong
livelihoods options Confident biocultural creative intergenerational
Valued rare varieties &
practitioners bonds.
thriving complex Improved tenure security
landscape mosaic for sea/landscapes and Widespread reframing
maintained sacred sites and recognition of
Sacred sites spiritually
Functioning ecological relevance of indigenous
vibrant
process and diversity rights & leadership.
Cross-cutting Emphasis
Rights & Representation ~ Gender Equality ~ Leadership Development ~ Creative Practitioners

5. Food Sovereignty part of Biocultural
Sovereignty
– “Food sovereignty is the right of Peoples to define
their own policies and strategies for sustainable
production, distribution, and consumption of food,
with respect for their own cultures and their own
systems of managing natural resources and rural
areas, and is considered to be a precondition for
Food Security.”
– “The rights to land, water, and territory, as well as
the right to self determination, are essential for the
full realization of our Food Security and Food
Sovereignty.”
The “Declaration of Atitlan”, from the 1st Indigenous Peoples’ Global
Consultation on the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty, Guatemala, 2002

9. Enset Landscapes of SW Ethiopia

10. What is Enset?
• A cousin of the Banana
• Big, Green & Beautiful
• Locally domesticated; farmers
manage gene flow between
wild and cultivated
• Corm and pseudostem are
starch-rich it’s NOT a fruit
• Great source of fiber
• Takes 4-7 yrs to mature: no
tillage, deep mulch
• Intensely managed: in nutrient
cycles, spatially in home &
agroecosystem & aesthetics
• Often losing out in agricultural
modernization
• Very culturally luminous

11. Dawro, Gamo Beehive hut built from
enset

14. Processing Enset
Processing
enset

15. Grant Making Strategies
• Supporting associations of communities in enset
landscapes.
• Connecting farmers and researchers with other
communities and landscapes globally
• Linking universities in a “consortium: to
collaborate with farmers and community cultural
associations to craft “Enset Parks”
• Re-valuing “kocho” culturally: food festivals,
restaurants, schools
• Restoring long-term agro-ecosystem processes:
water, carbon, nutrients

16. Indigenous Partnership for
Agrobidiversity and Food Sovereignty

17. • Amplifying Agro-ecological Solutions

18. Sharing Traditional Knowledge

19. • Indigenous Peoples’ Climate Change
• Assesment

22. Keeping the Future More Delicious