Meet the Authors

Date: May 26, 2026
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Online
Host: Perspectives from the Global South on the Anthropocene
Contact: zuccarelli@gea.mpg.de
Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures

Meet-and-greet with the authors of our Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems report presented at COP30, including scholars as well as members of local and Indigenous communities

Participants will be able either to register and join via Zoom or to follow the live stream through our YouTube channel, @archglobalsouth. The Zoom meeting will include translated captions on demand.

Moderators:

Dr. Verónica Zuccarelli Freire (MPI-GEA), Dr. Laura Pey (UBA–CONICET, Argentina), and Dr. Laura Furquim (University of São Paulo).

Tentative presentation order

1. Ancient Knowledge and Modern Conservation: The Brazil Nut as a Pathway to COP30 Climate Actions
**Victor L. Caetano-Andrade**

2. Quilombo Do Abacatal And Quilombo Baixo Itacuruçá: Land Use And Resilience Strategies Through Smallholder-Family Farming in the Amazon (Pará, Brazil)
**Vanuza da Conceição Cardoso, Marivaldo Gomes Torres, and Danielle Heberle Viegas**

3. A World Where Many Worlds Fit? Taking Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Knowledge Seriously at the COP
**Juliana Lins and Mariana Franco Cassino**

4. Past Water Futures: Rehabilitating Ancient Dams for Present-day Use in the Peruvian Andes
**Kevin Lane, Nicholas Branch, Pedro González, and Mario Advíncula**

5. Integrating Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Knowledge of Agriculture in the Pursuit of Sustainable Farming Practices
**Peter Gitau, Victor Iminjili, and Rahab N. Kinyanjui**

6. Sustaining Livelihoods and Ecosystems: The Role of Regenerative Pastoralism and Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in African Food Security
**Verónica Zuccarelli Freire, Victor Iminjili, and ECHOES**

7. When the Chagra Guides Time: Eco-Cultural Calendars and Climate Resilience in Vaupés, Colombia
**Daniela Arango Ruda**

8. Legal Frontiers of Biodiversity: Between Common Heritage and Genetic Commodities
**Eduardo Relly**

9. Rooted Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Actions
**Edson Krenak
Vanuza Cardoso
Uraan Anderson Suruí
Concepción Trejo and Candelaria Trejo**