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People bending over a field of crops
Framework guides local governments towards people-led climate-resilient development
Insight, 04 August 2021
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International policies and biocultural innovation: SIFOR policy review
… indigenous peoples’ rights, to see the extent to which they support traditional knowledge, biocultural heritage and innovation by smallholder farmers. … Innovation for Resilience (2012-2017) – which sought to strengthen traditional knowledge-based innovation systems for food security in the …
Publication, 01 June 2018
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… IIED’s Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR) project examined traditional knowledge-based – or ‘biocultural’ – innovation systems to strengthen … of climate change. The five-year project worked with indigenous and traditional farming communities and partners in four countries – Centre …
Article, 18 October 2018
Quechua woman
Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature
… policies that often fail to recognise the value of Indigenous knowledge, thus contributing to its erosion. Most of the world’s … from all these pressures include “continued loss of subsistence and traditional livelihoods” and impacts on “health and wellbeing from … to mainstream economic models that are destroying the environment and traditional cultures. Achieving the  Sustainable Development Goals …
Insight, 12 April 2021
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Planning ahead: how the CRISP-M tool advances early climate action
Insight, 05 January 2022
two women with a big basket of corn
Working with nature to build back better from COVID-19: inspirations from farmers in China
Insight, 23 June 2020
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
Article, 09 August 2021
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… backed up by extensive research. According to several studies (PDF) , traditional ecological knowledge is effective in conserving biodiversity and regulating … Diversity’s Aichi Target 18 since it was agreed in 2010, calling for traditional knowledge and customary use to be fully integrated into the …
Insight, 18 February 2020
Five women look at a tomato plant in a vegtable plot
Empowering women forest and farm producers: learning from the best
Insight, 27 March 2023
Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion
Insight, 05 February 2016