On this occasion, participants were able to learn a little about the socio-biodiversity of the Cerrado.
in an international context that generally only looks at the Amazon.
ISPN's governance advisor, Bruno Tarin, led the initiative. I'm on the map to the International Congress on Research and Innovation in Sustainability (SRI) in Panama City, this Monday (26). “The perspective is to build sustainability together with the people and to value Brazil and the Cerrado biome in the global sustainability community,” Tarin highlighted.
The event runs until the 30th of this month and brings together more than two thousand participants, including global leaders, government and civil society experts, and funders. It is a joint initiative of Future Earth and Belmont Forum, which values diverse knowledge about sustainability, provides a platform to share innovative ideas and creates an inclusive space for collaboration and action.
ISPN's participation took place at the table. "The co-production of knowledge and worlds in the Anthropocene: A Southern Cone perspective", alongside socio-environmental initiatives from Argentina and Chile, as well as another Brazilian one, led by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
All the projects and actions presented at the congress seek to provide solutions to the climate emergency through a dialogue of knowledge between organized civil society, communities, and governments, with the aim of co-producing knowledge and generating socio-environmental transformation, with an interface between science and politics.
In turn, Bruno Tarin showed how the "Tô no Mapa" app can serve as a bridge for building knowledge about peoples, traditional communities, and family farmers, based on their own protagonism, since the app is a self-identification tool. This modality is foreseen in Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and in the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (Decree 6.040 / 2007).
“It’s been a good opportunity to talk about the diversity of peoples in the Cerrado biome, in an international context that generally only looks at the Amazon. I showed how the Cerrado is a super biodiverse savanna but also super sociodiverse: there are many peoples identifying themselves and registering their territories on the app's map,” said Bruno Tarin.
The ISPN advisor highlighted the decolonization and socio-environmental focus of the congress, "with very interesting participants, such as a panel with indigenous people from the Kaingang ethnic group in southern Brazil and other Latin American ethnic groups."
Bruno Tarin holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from UFRJ and traveled with a scholarship from Future Earth, an international third-sector organization that brings together scientists and researchers in pursuit of a more sustainable future.
I'M ON THE MAP
O I'm on the map "Tô no Mapa" is a mobile application developed for Brazilian peoples, traditional communities, and family farmers to self-map their territories. It is an accessible and free tool, built through dialogue between diverse communities and social organizations, serving as a political instrument to strengthen the fight for territorial rights that are not yet recognized. "Tô no Mapa" is an initiative of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) together with ISPN and the Cerrado Network, in partnership with the Cerrados Institute.
The tool is available for download on mobile phones. Android e iOS.
Text: Letícia Verdi/Ascom ISPN
Photo: Eduardo Rodrigues/ISPN Archive