KinRay Hub

• Goal: $500,000 USD (initial 2026–2028 phase)

• Critical Outcomes (3-Year Horizon):

  • Design and implementation of an Indigenous BioEconomic Farming System (Biocultural Heritage Agroecosystems) addressing soil erosion, drought, frost, and flood resilience across Andean-Amazonian territories.
    
    

  • Restoration of biocultural food systems through Indigenous-led science, technology, and governance benefiting more than 2 million people across Apya Yala.
    
    

  • Development of biokultural MRV (Monitoring, Research, and Verification) systems that enable communities to own, protect, retire, and monetize their data economy.
    
    

  • Strengthened digital and financial literacy for local Indigenous cooperation to participate directly in regional and global food supply chains.

• Emerging: KinRay shares the vision and is cultivating the relational and cultural foundations needed.

• The KinRay Network seeks legal, technological, and financial partnership to bring Indigenous-led bioeconomy systems to increase and replicate, grounded in Indigenous relational science, technology, and innovation.
  KinRay feels strongly about the purpose and intention of its companionship with Indigenous Commons and the GrandMothering Economy — weaving coherence between innovation, nature, peoples, and kinship governance.

• Founder • Earth Trustee • Scientist • Kultural Lawyer

• WariNkwi Flores (Kin) is a citizen of Apya Yala/Americas and a title holder of relational-hood to the Andean Kara and Kichwa Andean-Amazonian Nations, Kutakachi Pueblo, Chichup'mp' Clan. Deeply rooted in the biocultural heritage of the Andean and Amazonian regions, WariNkwi embodies the living synthesis of Indigenous relational science, law, and design.

• As the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Indigenous-led R&D Think-Do Tank Kinray Hub, WariNkwi leads the design of Indigenous nature finance, biokulture technology, Kara-Kichwa Data Sovereignty & AI governance systems, and biokultural MRV systems — tools that bridge ancestral stewardship with contemporary systems for measuring and sustaining the creation of all life.

• A first-generation Kara-Kichwa PhD Student at the University of Arizona, WariNkwi serves as a “kultural lawyer” — creating semantic justice between Indigenous epistemologies and contemporary scientific frameworks and pioneering the study of Indigenous Biocomplexity systems. As a member of the Chichup'mp' Clan’s Earth Trusteeship, WariNkwi works transboundary across the Andean and Amazonia to shape social-ecological futures that protect all that creates life, advancing Indigenous governance systems of common-pool resources.

“Our ancestors (nature-culture/biokulture) designed the first biocomplex systems — the rivers, the soils, the stars, the mountains, the fire, the wind, the rains, the abundance.
We are simply re-membering how to live by their algorithms of the duty of care.”
— WariNkwi Flores

• KinRay Network of Indigenuity Tensegrity Lab is both a think-do tank and a living systems experiment — a bridge between relational science and contemporary technology. Its work is grounded in Indigenous systems thinking that already contain the systems logic necessary to regenerate life on Earth.

• The Lab supports federated, decentralized knowledge production, creating science for “new” realities, data governance, equitable participation in agrifood systems and ethical circular supply chains. It builds governance architecture for bioeconomic and praxis-based decision systems that help communities adapt, remediate, and conserve — all while restoring bio-cultural sovereignty.

• KinRay collaborates with Indigenous communities across South America, including the Kutakachi, Otavalo, Kayampy, Kichwa, and Imantak Nations — forming a pan-Andean web of innovation grounded in kinship, relational accountability, and intergenerational responsibility.

• The 2025–2027 plan focuses on the Andean biocultural region of Apya Yala, with the goal of developing increased replicable biocultural systems that repair ecological and economic fragmentation, reinstituting Indigenous institutionality.

• Investment will:

  • Design and operationalize the Indigenous BioEconomic Farming System — integrating biocultural solutions on Andean farming techniques with biokultural MRV technologies.
    

  • Biokultural markets and cooperatives that reward regenerative agriculture, seed diversity, and traditional nutrition.
    

  • Develop Biokultural MRV systems — using Indigenous knowledge frameworks for environmental verification, data sovereignty, and nature finance.
    

  • Enhance local digital and financial literacy, enabling Indigenous producers to access regenerative finance and ethical supply chains circularity.
    

  • Pilot a Transboundary AgriFood Resilience Network, linking Andean-Amazonian communities to exchange climate adaptation strategies, data provenance, and treaty-making frameworks.

  • Increase/Replicate Indigenous R&D governance guided by the Indigenous Embassy Protocol, where nature itself mediates and affirms agreements of engagement.
    

• KinRay operates across the Andean highlands and Amazonian lowlands — one of the planet’s most bio-diverse transition zones and a key stabilizer of the global climate (aka tipping point).

• This region is home to millennia-old Indigenous agrifood systems that regulate water cycles, soil health, and biodiversity through terrace farming, seed biobank stewardship, and reciprocal exchange networks. Yet these same systems are under threat from industrial agriculture sector “economic growth” through intensive monocultural “climate-smart” agriculture models that reinforce colonial systemic dispossession of biocultural markets, local social-ecological context, common-pool resource governance, knowledge production, and territory & self-determination.

• By reasserting the principle of home-court representation — where Indigenous Peoples govern their own knowledge systems — KinRay ensures that the future of global agrifood resilience is written in the languages of the territory.

• To increase the Indigenous BioEconomic Farming System (Biocultural Heritage Agroecosystems), KinRay requires:

  • Legal and technical support for intellectual property and Indigenous data sovereignty.
    

  • Digital and financial literacy infrastructure — localized MRV tools and cooperative finance platforms.
    

  • Research & in-community learning hubs connecting farmers, scientists, and cultural practitioners.
    

  • Partnerships with regenerative finance institutions to design community-owned funding vehicles.
    

• Indigenous communities across Apya Yala hold millennia of agroecosystems, a relational science body of knowledge, yet have minimal negotiating power in enfranchising grassroots agrifood economic activities to global markets.

• The lack of enforcement and compliance mechanisms on the rights to data collection, aggregation, disaggregation, interpretation, and retirement of Indigenous Peoples and their territory data has led to knowledge, sovereignty, and territory dispossession — even as Indigenous farming models remain the most resilient against climate volatility and agrobiodiversity genomic conservation.

• KinRay turns this challenge into opportunity by:

  • Building Indigenous data and verification systems that translate biocultural value into recognized economic terms.
    
    

  • Creating legal mechanisms for Earth Trusteeship, biocultural regionality systems, self-determination and sovereignty.
    
    

  • Reconnecting Andean cosmotechnics — the “technology of life” — with planetary relational science.
    

• Strengthened Indigenous agrifood sovereignty, Transboundary Soil and Water Health Governance, and social-ecological resilience.
  

• Digital and financial infrastructure conditions of communities through biocultural MRV, data sovereignty, relational technology.
  

• Regeneration of soils, watersheds, agrobiodiversity, and agroecosystems across the Andean-Amazonia corridor.
  

• New global models for Indigenous-led climate governance and regenerative finance.
  

• Reinstitution of relational knowledge systems — ensuring that innovation and genealogy remain interwoven.

• Human Wellbeing and Social Equity

  • Biocultural Heritage Agroecosystems farming systems directly improve the conditions of life for millions across the Andean biocultural mountains and Amazonia biocultural forests. In Ecuador alone, 25% of young children experience stunted growth, a rate that rises to 40% among Indigenous children — primarily due to poor nutrition and loss of traditional foods. By restoring Indigenous farming diversity, nutrient-dense crops, and food-sharing networks, KinRay’s work will:

  • Reduce childhood stunting and malnutrition, beginning in pilot regions.
    

  • Rebuild community-based nutrition systems, improving maternal and child health.
    

  • Increase household food security and income through biocultural and cooperative markets.
    

  • Reinforce community wellbeing, dignity, and identity, making food not only sustenance, but belonging.
    

• Globally, where nearly 150 million children suffer from stunted growth, KinRay’s model demonstrates that biocultural regeneration is public health – part of the WHO Global Plan of Action for the Health of Indigenous Peoples— agrifood sovereignty is One Health.

• KinRay embodies the Brothering and Queering currents of the GrandMothering Economy — the active force that builds bridges between worlds and holds paradox as fertile ground for emergence.

• Through KinRay, science, economy, technology, policy becomes relational again — a STREAM of coherence between community, law, and ceremony.
  Its work reminds us that regeneration is not only ecological; it is ontological and genealogical— a reorientation of how humanity measures and values life.

“The GrandMothering Economy is the system of systems — the web that remembers what modernity tries so hard to reduce into myths of phantom epigenetic memory of the territory: that all innovation begins in relationships.”
— WariNkwi Flores