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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work advocating for the importance of the traditional knowledge and innovations of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in addressing the nature and climate crises.

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Indigenous women’s groups perform a Tlalmanalli ceremony in Mexico. They are sitting in a circle, wearing traditional clothing and grabbing colorful cloths and pulling them.

Advancing Indigenous and diverse knowledge systems in global assessments

Event on 20 May 2026

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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory in Rabai

Publication, 12 November 2025

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Biocultural Heritage Territories walking workshop: sixth global learning exchange, International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples

Publication, 23 May 2025

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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests: third annual project workshop

Publication, 18 October 2024

A group of colourfully dressed people stand behind a huge amount of amassed crops and in front of some impressive mountains under a blue sky.

Indigenous Peoples are the real solutions to the nature and climate crises

Insight, 10 October 2024

Uganda farmer bending down to check his crops

Putting Uganda’s biggest users of climate adaptation knowledge at the heart of its creation

Insight, 16 July 2024

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The Huaran Declaration: Indigenous Peoples are the real solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises

Publication, 17 June 2024

Crowds mass around stalls at a marketplace displaying a range of fruits.

Building community resilience through the locally led adaptation knowledge system in Uganda

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Woman picks up a cauliflower from a filed. Solar panel in the background.

Transforming nature finance

Article

Ten elders sir on benches in a forest.

Achieving 30x30: supporting Indigenous and traditional territories and cultures

Insight, 26 July 2023

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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya Forests: mid-term project workshop

Publication, 24 July 2023

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Traditional mountain landscapes: crucial for meeting biodiversity and climate targets

Publication, 23 November 2022

Man, wearing red and black and holding a stick, walks with cattle

Valuing a traditional lifestyle: how Maasai herders are being paid to protect nature and combat climate change

Insight, 19 October 2022

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Establishing a Biocultural Heritage Territory to protect Kenya's Kaya forests - project launch workshop report

Publication, 09 September 2022

Man wearing traditional clothing holds a plate with potatoes.

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and COVID-19

Event on 14 September 2021

People wearing traditional clothing sit in a circle in a field.

Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets

Insight, 16 August 2021

People standing between piles of bananas

African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control

Insight, 21 July 2021

Fledgling mangroves with a woman on the right of the image

Devolved Climate Finance (DCF) Alliance

Article

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Landscape approaches for mountain community sustainable development in a time of climate change: Policy Consultation and South-South Exchange Workshop and INMIP Mountain Community Exchange Walking Workshop

Publication, 01 July 2016

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The Suusamyr Declaration

Publication, 01 December 2018

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Landscape approaches for mountain community sustainable development in a time of climate change: Policy consultation and South-South exchange workshop

Publication, 01 October 2016

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Biocultural heritage for resilient mountain communities

Publication, 01 February 2019

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Biocultural Adaptation in Mountain Communities: Third INMIP International Learning Exchange, Stone Village, China

Publication, 01 October 2016

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The Apple Park and Wheat Park, Tajikistan. Case study guidance on biocultural heritage territories

Publication, 01 November 2019

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