Deep Respect for Mother Earth: An Indigenous Perspective on One Health: In Conversation with Gisela Illescas Palma and Laura Vanessa Reyes

Magdalena Ackermann (), Gisela Illescas Palma and Laura Vanessa Reyes
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Magdalena Ackermann: Society for International Development
Gisela Illescas Palma: Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina y el Caribe (MAELA)
Laura Vanessa Reyes: Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina y el Caribe (MAELA)

Development, 2023, vol. 66, issue 3, 181-184

Abstract: Abstract Indigenous peoples across the world share an intimate knowledge of ecosystems acquired from hundreds of generations of observation. Today, commercial land exploitation, resource extraction and the effects of global warming are destroying these water and land ecosystems exacerbating the climate crisis. The threat to life support systems posed by the ecological crisis we witness is combined with the cultural and ethnic crisis and the erosion of social structures that make cultural diversity and plurality possible as a democratic reality in a decentralized framework. The cosmovision that Indigenous Peoples have always embodied and transmitted across generations opens our understanding to a holistic approach that is essential today to interpret and implement One Health according to the contemporary challenges and needs.

Keywords: Mother earth; Dialogo de saberes; Indigenous knowledge; Care; Cosmovision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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