Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan partners have actively collaborated with the Vedda Indigenous people in 9 communities since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Country Context
Food Systems Characteristics
Home gardens, forest-based (food and medicine), culture-based fisheries
Climate & Environmental Stress
Drought and excessive heat, floods, unpredictable extreme climatic events
Social Stress
Issues related to access to forest, human-elephant conflicts, impacts from government policy decision on banned fertilizer, limited economic opportunities, socially marginalized
Key Collaborators
Department of Cultural Affairs, Sri Lanka
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka
Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka
Methods
The Sri Lanka team uses community-based participatory research, intercultural dialogues, interviews, and observations to co-produce knowledge with Indigenous communities.