Courses
Courses
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The Yachay Kuychi Pluriversity offers a range of innovative and adaptable programs for indigenous peoples, academics, researchers, policy makers and others.
We can create a better tomorrow
Promoting a conservation and development approach rights-based through the implementation of Biocultural Territories
The Programs Include
- Participatory Action-Research Programs on food neighborhoods, biocultural heritage, climate change, traditional agricultural systems, underutilized crops, nutrition, and others. These are facilitated by community leaders, indigenous knowledge holders, and formally trained scientists.
- Farmer Field Schools, where farmers are directly engaged in field studies, develop conceptual understanding and specific hands-on skills in agroecology and water management, and other topics of interest identified by participants.
- Contact learning zones create safe and collaborative environments where different generations, genders, and cultures come together to learn from one another about specific topics.
- The Internship and Volunteer Program helps to build local and international capacity, establishing alliances and networks as forces for social change.
- Policy platform development is a way to facilitate communication and coordination within complex policy processes and institutions at the local, national, regional and international levels.
Details
- Course facilitators are both formally educated professionals and Indigenous knowledge experts. Course ‘toolkits’ for instructors are a dynamic and constantly evolving collection of methods and instruments, open to revision and augmentation. These toolkits are drawn from, and creatively integrate, a variety of sources: pre-Hispanic tools, the methods of participatory action research, and Internet and wireless technologies, among others.
- Exchanges and courses have previously been organized for Indigenous business leaders from New Zealand, policy makers from Mexico, Potato scientists and policy makers from around the world, and several university groups from Peru, Mexico, Chile, and USA.
