Brazilian indigenous women protect forests through seed saving and agroecology
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In Brazil’s Pará region, Indigenous women play a key role in agriculture and defending their lands.
They are part of an international effort to map local solutions for forest conservation, climate action, and biodiversity. The Global Forest Coalition is leading the project, called the Gender-Just Real Solutions Map for Forests and Communities, with contributions from groups in nine countries including Bangladesh, Colombia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The coalition aims to create a detailed map that goes beyond simply marking project locations. The map will document how communities are working to protect forests, practice agroecology, preserve traditional knowledge, and defend their lands from resource extraction. It will also detail the conditions that enable these efforts and the challenges they face.
Organisations involved agreed that included initiatives must be firmly rooted in specific territories, recognising that universal solutions don't account for local differences in land, people, power dynamics, and obstacles. The project also prioritises gender equality, looking beyond female participation to assess who performs work, including care work, who makes decisions, and who controls land, resources, and income. The Global Forest Coalition plans to launch the map in November 2026 and will continue updating it with new information.
It will include examples of failures alongside successes, documenting the external pressures, like extractive projects or patriarchal norms, that hinder progress.
