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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests
… The Rabai community (a Mijikenda sub-tribe) maintains a traditional governance system for its four gazetted Kaya forests. A Council of Elders oversees traditional conservation rules that protect the Kaya forests and … to create strong community ownership and revitalise traditional knowledge. It will use decolonial approaches, methods and tools, …
Project, 09 February 2022
Man wearing traditional clothing holds a plate with potatoes.
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and COVID-19
… Peoples (INMIP)  organised a webinar series to bring the voices and knowledge of Indigenous farmers around the world into the debate on …
Event, 14 September 2021
A woman stands to the side of a barren area through which small shoots of a mangrove forest can be seen
Community solutions for a nature-based, resilient future beyond COVID-19
Article, 07 October 2020
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… has shown. This study also found that Indigenous Peoples engaged in traditional activities in remote, biodiverse areas with little reliance … with nature). These outcomes are fundamentally due to their ancestral knowledge and holistic worldviews – but are enhanced by respectful … food security. They sustain not only locally adapted Indigenous and traditional crops, but also wild foods and crop wild relatives  that …
Insight, 23 October 2020
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Smallholder farming systems in the Indian Himalayas: Key trends and innovations for resilience
… Traditional farmers in the Central and Eastern Indian Himalayas have … have responded by innovating to increase resilience and yields, using traditional knowledge, biodiversity and external knowledge. This report explores key …
Publication, 01 June 2018
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Biocultural innovation: the key to global food security?
… these aims simultaneously in particular sites requires integrating traditional knowledge and community innovation with formal knowledge. Research by … partners with 64 communities in four countries identified over 500 traditional knowledge-based or ‘biocultural’ innovations that enhance …
Publication, 01 June 2018
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En busca de una lengua común: Participación indígena en el desarrollo de un régimen de protección sui generis para el conocimiento tradicional en el Perú
Publication, 01 January 2002
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Zambia’s chiefs champion gender equality in land and natural resource governance
… equal rights under the law, and the 2014 National Gender Policy gives traditional leaders a central role as champions of gender equality in … ownership that is communal in nature and held under the control of a traditional leader such as a chief. Women’s rights to inherit land, … a sub-committee of the House of Chiefs developed the tool to address knowledge gaps and provide practical guidance on promoting gender …
Insight, 06 September 2021
Man moves charcoal with a shovel
How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production
Insight, 20 March 2023
Maasai men herding cattle
VITAL Climate Collective: connecting demand for climate adaptation needs with supply of climate finance
Project, 01 July 2024