United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
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Indigenous peoples understand clearly the relationship between development for someone else, and their own underdevelopment. They also understand clearly the impacts of certain approaches to development on the environment and on the health of their peoples. For example, practices such as monoculture cash crop production, use of genetically modified seeds and mineral extraction lead to environmental contamination and threaten indigenous peoples’ ecosystems. Similarly, indigenous communities continue to be expelled from their territories under the pretext of the establishment of protected areas or national parks.
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