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The Role of Traditional Knowledge and Crop Varieties in Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security in SW China, Bolivian Andes and coastal Kenya
… Paper prepared for the UNU-IAS workshop on Indigenous Peoples, Marginalised Populations and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge, Mexico, July 2011 Indigenous peoples and local communities … The Role of Traditional Knowledge and Crop Varieties in Adaptation to Climate Change and Food …
Publication, 01 September 2011
Woman filling a jerry can with water
Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
… men and women, young and old. Social justice is at the centre of our climate change research. But over the past year – a year when the … women, although some work also considers ethnicity, young people and Indigenous people. Intersectionality must be included from the start if … topics, shifting individual and collective consciousness and knowledge, leading to accountability and ownership of the …
Insight, 19 May 2021
An illustration with a speech bubble: "We're dealing with multiple intertwined crises" with scales and illustrations depicting climate change, COVID-19, rising inequalities and biodiversity loss
A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions
Insight, 26 November 2020
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Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge
… Over the coming decades, climate change is likely to pose a major challenge to agriculture; … But evidence, both old and new, suggests that the traditional knowledge and crop varieties of indigenous peoples and local communities could prove even more important … Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge …
Publication, 01 October 2011
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Local must lead action to tackle world’s multiple interconnected challenges
Insight, 08 October 2020
Conference buzzes with stories of communities adapting to climate change
News, 26 April 2012
A partly visible road and bridge due to muddy water covering half of it.
Loss and damage does not happen in a vacuum – it relates to power and politics
… ‘Loss and damage’ refers to the adverse impacts of climate change that have not, cannot, or will not be avoided. Climate … and culture from sea-level rise in the Solomon Islands; or loss of Indigenous knowledge from climate-related displacement in the Lake Chad Basin.   As … Climate change …
Insight, 16 August 2022
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
News, 04 July 2016
A woman writes on a poster. More women appear blurred in the background.
Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance
Insight, 13 July 2022
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… innovation for resilience (SIFOR) project examined traditional knowledge-based – or ‘biocultural’ – innovation systems to strengthen food security in the face of climate change. The five-year project worked with indigenous and traditional farming communities and partners in four … Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity …
Article, 18 October 2018