Our UNESCO Chair Partners
The work and impact of this Chair is based upon collaboration with a network of partners, individuals, organizations, and communities, working to advance sustainability.
Gabriela Lichtenstein
Gabriela's expertise lies in conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in Patagonia and the high Andes, with particular focus on the distribution of benefits along the commodity chains, and community participation in decision making. Her interest in articulating research results with policy led her to Chair IUCN SSC South American Camelid Specialist Group, collaborate with CITES, FWS, the Vicuña Convention and IPBES. She also took part in a number of indigenous forums aiming to strengthen indigenous participation and is currently a member of IPBES ILK Liaison group for the Monitoring Assessment.
Gabriela holds a research position at CONICET, works at Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Contact: lichtensteingabriela@gmail.com
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Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal
En IBIF Bolivia, promovemos la conservación de los bosques mediante una gestión sustentable y territorial que incluya el desarrollo local, la resiliencia climática y el manejo responsable de los recursos naturales y la biodiversidad, bajo un enfoque de género y generacional. Trabajamos de la mano con comunidades indígenas y actores locales para desarrollar soluciones localmente apropiadas que mejoren el cuidado y conservación de sus territorios, mediante la promoción de una gobernanza comunitaria y policéntrica; la incidencia en la formulación de políticas públicas basadas en información técnica precisa y la asistencia especializada.
Contact: ibif@ibifbolivia.org.bo
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Holly Worthen
Holly’s interdisciplinary and community-engaged research focuses on the racialized and gendered aspects of transnational Indigenous community development in both Mexico and the United States. Her work explores how certain economic and political projects—including migration, the production of commodity agriculture, and women’s rights agendas—reconfigure questions of labor, belonging, and value in transnational spaces. She is a professor at the Sociology Institute of the Autonomous University of Benito Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico. She can regularly be found hiking in the mountains of Oaxaca with the street dogs she rescues and fosters.
Contact:hworthen@gmail.com
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Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina (ERA A.C.)
En estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina, buscamos aportar a la búsqueda de nuevos enfoques para el desarrollo de las comunidades rurales. Entendemos el "desarrollo" como el "despliegue" o "desdoblamiento" de las ideas de las comunidades rurales para mejorar sus condiciones de vida. Para eso, facilitamos los procesos comunitarios de reflexión colectiva y el intercambio de ideas a todos los niveles.
Nuestra experiencia nos ha mostrado que cuando las comunidades rurales tienen pleno control sobre sus recursos naturales, se logra la sostenibilidad ambiental. Esto se debe a una razón simple pero poderosa: todos tratamos de conservar nuestro medio de vida. Cuando las comunidades dependen de sus bosques, tierras, agua, flora y fauna y se les reconoce el derecho a manejarlos, se convierten en las guardianas más efectivas, como lo muestran muchos estudios nuestros y de otras entidades.
Redberry Lake Biosphere Region
The Redberry Lake Biosphere models sustainable development solutions that preserve pathways for people and wildlife to coexist and thrive together. Through our new Research Centre and demonstration plots we welcome researchers and visitors from across the world to study and learn about species at risk, sustainable agriculture, climate adaptation and more. Through our Interpretive Centre and Glamping Domes we welcome tourists from across the world to experience an endless expanse teaming with hundreds of species of wildlife thriving alongside rural prairie towns. Through our Native Tree and Plant Nursery Roots of Renewal, we are planting 100,000 trees in addition to various native shrubs, grasses and other rare plants across the region each year. Through our Land Based Education we are partnering with Indigenous Communities to inspire the next generation what living with the land truly means. Through these endeavours and more our goal is to remind humans of all ages to see themselves as an integral part of nature. One that can work alongside other species and solve global issues by strengthening our bonds with the nature in our backyards.
Mistawasis Nehiyawak - Community Partner
Mistawasis Nehiyawak is a First Nation located in central Saskatchewan, Canada. Like our ancestors, we find strength through partnership, alliance and friendship with those in our traditional territory; this includes neighboring communities, various levels of government, institutions and non-government organizations.
Contact: contact@mistawasis.ca
Fermín Sosa Pérez
Fermín actualmente trabaja como docente universitario, impartiendo temas relacionados al desarrollo local y regional, con énfasis en el contexto socioambiental de los territorios que habitan las comunidades indígenas del estado de Oaxaca, México. Es de su interés, desarrollar proyectos de investigación respecto a la dinámica de los paisajes y la funcionalidad territorial.
Fermín works as a university teacher. He teaches on topics related to local and regional development, with an emphasis on the socio-environmental context of the territories inhabited by indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. He is interested in developing research projects on landscape dynamics and territorial functionality.
Contact: shoobilatzi@gmail.com
Michelle María Jazmín Sánchez Luja
Especialista en la gestión y acompañamiento para la incubación y fortalecimiento de Empresas Forestales de Economía Social en comunidades rurales. Implementa técnicas y métodos participativos para la gestión sostenible y la gobernanza de territorios comunes y ecosistemas en favor de la conservación, restauración y protección ambiental en comunidades del sur y sureste de México.
Michelle is a specialist in management and collaboration for the incubation and strengthening of Social Economy of Forestry Enterprises in rural communities. She implements participatory techniques and methods for the sustainable management and governance of communal territories and ecosystems. Her work seeks to support environmental conservation, restoration, and protection in communities in southern and southern-east Mexico.
Contact: indayuac@gmail.com
Canadian Biosphere Regions Association
The Canadian Biosphere Regions Association (CBRA) is as both an organization and the collective voice of Canada’s 19 UNESCO-designated biosphere regions.
We work at the national level to promote the collective impact of biosphere regions across the country. We facilitate connections, provide support, and promote their local work, raising their profile and scaling their collective impact. We also support operational capacity building and knowledge-sharing opportunities within the network.
Contact: info@biospherecanada.ca