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The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
… Indigenous groups and traditional farmers from 21 mountain communities … learning exchange of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples, which includes communities from Bhutan, China, India, … The meeting resulted in the creation of an International Network of Biocultural Heritage Territories for in-situ conservation of crop …
News, 06 October 2015
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… Future cities for climate change targets, agroecology and local biocultural assessments  Side event Date: Friday, 11 November, 2016 … the evidence of the critical role of biocultural heritage of indigenous peoples and local communities in climate change resilience and the … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP22) …
Event, 05 November 2016
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… detailed below. We showcaseda number of IIED projects which include biocultural heritage, ecosystem-based adaptation, social assessment of … opportunity to share the experiences of existing networks involving Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and the importance of community to …
Event, 01 September 2016
CBD COP24 logo
IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… wildlife and people. The forum also saw an increased participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Co-convened by the African Union … a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal ecosystems | Biocultural innovation: the key to global food security? | Smallholder …
Event, 17 November 2018
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
… the Mountain EbA program  (Spanish language page) and the Potato Park biocultural heritage approach on EbA effectiveness, and promoting EbA as … (Parque de la Papa) is an association of five communities of Quechua peoples who jointly manage their land, in the Cusco region, to protect … and resilient agroecological farming practices.  In April 2014, indigenous farmers from Bhutan and China visited the Potato Park to …
Project, 04 September 2018
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… ocean sectors and scales. Featuring IIED's Phil Franks .   2025 Biocultural wellbeing: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity , Ecology & Society …
Article, 23 September 2020
Indigenous groups and traditional farmers, plus IIED's Krystyna Swiderska (left), gather at a meeting in Bhutan in May 2014 to discuss climate change impacts and the benefits of traditional knowledge (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities could help FAO rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
… Indigenous groups and traditional farmers from 21 mountain communities … The meeting resulted in the creation of an International Network of Biocultural Heritage Territories for in-situ conservation of crop … cultural and spiritual values, worldviews and languages of indigenous peoples and traditional farmers, and to protect farmers' rights and …
News, 02 October 2015
Drying medicinal plants, the knowledge of which is passed down through generations. In South Asia alone, there are more than 8,000 plant species with known medicinal value (Photo: Bioversity International/B. Sthapit)
Sustaining local food systems and agricultural biodiversity
… This project collaborated directly with local farming and indigenous communities in regenerating biodiversity-rich farming and … the documentation of indigenous knowledge in the form of Community Biocultural Registers and training in digital video technology. We also … for tackling agricultural challenges, including those brought by climate change. After this initiative came to an end, IIED support …
Project, 15 August 2013
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… resources , and in particular to work with partners on conservation, indigenous rights and poverty eradication. IIED and partner events Women … and enhancing agrobiodiversity for food security in the face of climate change, and explore novel approaches for customary sustainable … women farmers from Lares will present the Maize Park 'Challakuy', a biocultural landscape that is being established in a centre of maize …
Event, 04 December 2016
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… impacts, and How efforts to enhance participation and recognition of indigenous peoples and local communities in PA governance, and reduce poverty, … goals from local to global levels.  IIED and partner events Biocultural Heritage Territories: Scaling up the Potato Park to China …
Event, 12 November 2014