IFAD / INTERNATIONAL DAY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

On International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sends a message that more Indigenous Peoples should be involved at the start and throughout the projects designed to support them. IFAD

• Video Length: 00:03:59
• Production Date: 8 August 2024
• Asset Language: Spanish; English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - IFAD
• Subject Topical: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
• Geographic Subject: MEXICO
• MAMS Id: 3243978
• Parent Id: 3243978
• Alternate Title: unifeed240808d

Description

STORY: IFAD / INTERNATIONAL DAY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
TRT: 3:59
SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGO TILL 08 AUGUST 2024 08:01PM EST
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14-20 JULY 2024, MICHOACÁN, MEXICO

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, aerial view of Michoacan state forests
2. Tracking shot, Michoacan forests
3. UPSOUND (Spanish) Bulmaro Ruiz Prado, President of Bienes Comunales in Charapan, Michoacan, Mexico:
“Over there is the beginning of the hill where we are going. These pine trees that are here, we also reforested them.”
4. Tracking shot, Michoacan forests
5. Various shots, people in Michoacan state, Mexico
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Karla Sofia Pita Vidal, Indigenous Peoples Team, IFAD: “This community is very unique because it’s the buffer zone for the monarch butterfly. It is in the forest area and the community have been protecting particularly in the last few years which have been very threatened by deforestation.”
7. Various shots, people from Crecencio Morales Indigenous community gathering.
8. Various shots, Michoacan state forests
9. Various shots, people from Crecencio Morales Indigenous community gathering.
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Karla Sofia Pita Vidal, Indigenous Peoples Team, IFAD:
“Supporting indigenous peoples, especially in their work of caring for the protection of the environment and as we saw in del bosque, it is very important because they have proven they have many solutions to care for the environment.”
11. Various shots, people from Charapan Indigenous Community
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Karla Sofia Pita Vidal, Indigenous Peoples Team, IFAD: “Within IFAD there is an innovative financing mechanism which is the fund for support to indigenous peoples or the IPAF for its acronym in English. This fund has a very particular characteristic because it goes directly to indigenous peoples through projects designed directly by their communities and their organizations. These projects are based on culture, traditional knowledge, and the ways of managing resources of the peoples and are managed at a regional level by indigenous organizations. Fimi for Lac Tepepa in the Pacific and Samburu in Africa of the peoples.”
13. Various shots, José Marcial Pérez Mondragón, member of Crecencio Morales Indigenous Community Self-government Council
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yedani Paola Hernandez Vazquez, Member of Crecencio Morales Indigenous Community Self-government Council:
“We could dehydrate these species and consume them in the month of May, as well as our fruits that we have at this time, such as apples, ana pear, peaches, capulina that we only have at a certain time of the year.”
15. Various shots, people from Crecencio Morales Indigenous community gathering.
16. Wide shot, IFAD Headquarter in Rome, Italy

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Margherita Loddoni, Professional Officer for Indigenous People at IFAD:
“IPAF really has been like a learning tool for the IFAD because thanks to the IPAF actually IFAD has been learning how much is important actually to directly channel resources to indigenous people’s community, not only for making sure that in this way there is a strong institutional strengthening of the indigenous people’s organization but also as a way to implement the self-development of indigenous peoples as a principle which is also included in the UNDRIP, the UN declaration of indigenous peoples rights.”
18. Wide shot, group of Indigenous People in Michoacan, Mexico
19. Various shots, Michoacan state forests

Storyline

On International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sends a message that more Indigenous Peoples should be involved at the start and throughout the projects designed to support them.

Billions of dollars around the world are given to fund projects that help traditional communities by international organisations and NGOs, but often those benefiting do not have a say in where and how the monies can be spent.

However, a pioneering new funding mechanism supported by IFAD is currently working with 53 indigenous communities in countries such as Mexico. The communities are instrumental in both the design and implementation of projects, with positive results.

Bulmaro Ruiz Prado, President Of Communal Properties in Mazuhua Community said: "From here you can start to see the hill we are going to, the pines that are here have also been reforested."

Bulmaro works here in his local forest in Crescencio Morales. He and other members of the Mazahua Indigenous community are planting trees and reforesting their local area, after illegal logging destroyed areas of the Michoacán region. Thousands of trees were chopped down to make way for avocado farms, but now some of them are growing again.

Karla Pita Vidal, Consultant, Indigenous Peoples, IFAD said, "this community is very unique because it’s the buffer zone for the monarch butterfly. It is in the forest area and the community have been protecting particularly in the last few years which have been very threatened by deforestation. Supporting indigenous peoples, especially in their work of caring for the protection of the environment and as we saw in del bosque, it is very important because they have proven they have many solutions to care for the environment."

The Mazahua made the decision to work on the forest after receiving funding and support from a unique facility supported by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development or IFAD.

Karla Pita Vidal said: “within IFAD there is an innovative financing mechanism which is the fund for support to indigenous peoples or the IPAF for its acronym in English. This fund has a very particular characteristic because it goes directly to indigenous peoples through projects designed directly by their communities and their organizations. These projects are based on culture, traditional knowledge, and the ways of managing resources of the peoples and are managed at a regional level by indigenous organizations. Fimi for Lac Tepepa in the Pacific and Samburu in Africa of the peoples.”

The community meets regularly to decide how the funds will be used. The community has also recently decided to invest in a rehydrating machine so they can store and eat vegetables like mushrooms that they have grown all year around.

Yedani Paola Hernandez Vazquez, Member of Crecencio Morales Indigenous Community Self-government Council said, “We could dehydrate these species and consume them in the month of May, as well as our fruits that we have at this time, such as apples, ana pear, peaches, capulina that we only have at a certain time of the year.”

IFAD is currently fifty-three small IPAF projects round the world, ensuring that Indigenous communities are involved throughout the project. Not only does this preserve their communities but restores the land on which they live.

Margherita Loddoni, Professional Officer for Indigenous People at IFAD said, “IPAF really has been like a learning tool for the IFAD because thanks to the IPAF actually IFAD has been learning how much is important actually to directly channel resources to indigenous people’s community, not only for making sure that in this way there is a strong institutional strengthening of the indigenous people’s organization but also as a way to implement the self-development of indigenous peoples as a principle which is also included in the UNDRIP, the UN declaration of indigenous peoples rights.”