International Forum Series to Commemorate One-Year Anniversary of the 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity
At the 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity held in October 2016 in Nanao Ishikawa, the participants mutually recognized that local wisdom about sustainable use of natural resources and biological diversity are strongly linked. During this conference, we discussed policies to realize societies that coexist with nature by utilizing diverse natural and cultural resources of local communities. The Ishikawa Declaration, which states various approaches taken by national and local authorities, international society, and the academic community, at their own level, to support the sustainability of local communities, was adopted at this conference. To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity, we will explore the measurements to further promote the Ishikawa Declaration with international initiatives and East Asian partner.
Forum 1: “Biocultural Diversity and Satoyama – – Learning about Worldwide Efforts towards Societies in Harmony with Nature”
The first forum is being held to coincide with the Ishikawa meeting of Steering Committee of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI). In this forum, we will discuss how the world learns and puts into practice the concept of the Satoyama Initiative, which is based on the philosophy of “coexistence with nature”. We will also discuss how the linkage of biological and cultural diversity is related with the livelihoods of global local communities in Satoyama and Satoumi region.
Organizer: The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Operating Unit Ishikawa/Kanazawa (UNU-IAS, OUIK) and IPSI
Supported by: Ishikawa Prefecture、Kanazawa City
（Japanese-English simultaneous translation will be provided）
14:00 to 14:15 — Opening Remarks: UNU-IAS and Ishikawa Prefecture
14:15 to 15:15 — Keynote Speech 1: [Dr Takakazu Yumoto (Director, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University)
Keynote Speech 2: [Some Cases of Bio-Cultural Diversity and SEPLS From Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities] Dr Alfred Oteng-Yeboah (Chair, IPSI Steering Committee; Chair, Ghana National Biodiversity Committee)
15:15 to 15:45 — Case Presentations
Case from India: [Capitalizing Cultural traditions to Conserve, Cultivate, and Consume sustainably the Rice crop genetic diversity: Case from India] Nadesa Panicker Anil Kumar (Senior Director, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation)
Case from Bosnia Herzegovina:[Biocultural diversity of Eastern Europe] Senka Barudanovic （Professor, University of Sarajevo）
15:45 to 16:00 — Break
16:00 to 17:00 — Panel Discussion [Can Satoyama contribute to building the society in harmony with nature?]
Coordinator: Tsunao Watanabe (Director, UNU-IAS OUIK)
17:00 — Closing
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