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Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
Insight, 29 May 2020
Crops float on water
Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change
Insight, 26 September 2019
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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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Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge
… Over the coming decades, climate change is likely to pose a major challenge to agriculture; temperatures … on modern science. But evidence, both old and new, suggests that the traditional knowledge and crop varieties of indigenous peoples and local … Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge …
Publication, 01 October 2011
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International conference on agrobiodiversity: sharing best practice in nature-based solutions from forest and farm producer organisation
Publication, 27 June 2024
Two people in a rice field
Shaping adaptation: here’s how the CBA conferences are making an impact
… adaptation conference, where those on the frontline of locally-led climate action share skills, knowledge and their perspectives on how the adaptation landscape needs to change.   I have been participating in CBA conferences since around … To create a conference where this could happen, we moved away from traditional panels and presentations and towards workshop-style …
Insight, 06 April 2023
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Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital
… cultural traditions. It sustains farm productivity in the face of climate change. But agrobiodiversity is rapidly being lost.  Just three crops … just that: promoting nutritional and medicinal health; sharing knowledge and seed to cultivate complexity; diversifying enterprises …
Publication, 27 February 2024
People bending over a field of crops
Framework guides local governments towards people-led climate-resilient development
… Over the last 15 years, as the climate crisis has deepened, threatening livelihoods and damaging … policies, countries risk increasing their vulnerability to climate change. Valuing local knowledge Aligned with this, a growing movement is … climate funding for local action Valuing local, Indigenous and traditional knowledge Ensuring accountability and transparency, and …
Insight, 04 August 2021
Aerial view on Sao Paulo showing different types of housing like sky scrappers and slums.
SECURe: Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience
Project, 01 April 2025
Members of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity celebrate the adoption of the decision on the new Subsidiary Body for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities at the closing plenary of COP16.
Historic platform for Indigenous Peoples, but finance failure at COP16
… new permanent body, which will allow them to defend their rights and traditional knowledge more effectively. “However, it’s disappointing … – could not be finalised.” Nicola Sorsby, researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group, agreed: "It is disappointing that a decision …
News, 06 November 2024