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Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR): Partners’ workshop and policy dialogue
… small-scale farmers by supporting biocultural heritage (interlinked traditional knowledge, biodiversity, landscapes, cultural and spiritual values and … between the components of biocultural heritage, or between traditional knowledge and science. This workshop brought together SIFOR …
Publication, 01 April 2016
A women puts food into an outdoor oven
Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food
… lies at the core of sustainable development. Reawakening tastes for traditional food  Bolivia has immense cultural richness and food is … shift toward international cuisine and imported fast food is seeing traditional foods that have long been central to Bolivian culture, … Agriculture (IICA), held the event ‘Sowing encounters of flavours and knowledge” (Sembrando Encuentros de Saberes y Sabores) to help turn the …
Insight, 18 June 2019
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Mountain Communities Workshop on Climate Change and Biocultural Heritage
… the solution: as the 5th IPCC report puts it, ‘Indigenous, local, and traditional knowledge systems and practices, including indigenous peoples’ holistic … Initiative brought together representatives from 25 indigenous and traditional mountain communities from 10 countries – Bhutan, China, …
Publication, 01 October 2014
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Biocultural heritage territories
… territories are made up of a mosaic of land uses, deeply linked to knowledge systems embedded in cultural traditions. Born of indigenous … food and agriculture. Across the world, years of local adaptation and traditional knowledge have shaped them into highly diverse, productive and resilient …
Publication, 01 November 2014
Science clearly shows climate impacts on ocean and ice accelerating demanding faster action from governments
News, 25 September 2019
Indigenous mountain farmers examine a map of the Stone Village water management system, showing the water channels (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain communities call for stronger action to counter climate change
News, 23 June 2016
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Biocultural Heritage innovations in the Potato Park - SIFOR qualitative baseline study, Peru
… defined Quechua biocultural innovations as the practical use of new knowledge. These could be endogenous innovations, emerging from the interactions of elements of biocultural heritage – traditional knowledge, biodiversity, landscapes, cultural and spiritual … laws – or collaborative innovations, emerging from the links between traditional knowledge and science. Information about innovations was …
Publication, 01 March 2015
The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)
Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security
… organisation representatives, scientists and donors shared traditional knowledge and science on climate change adaptation and the scaling-up of … discussed strategies for conserving genetic resources and reviving traditional crops that are often climate resilient, as well as …
News, 15 February 2019
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Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR) in India - Brochure
… an IIED supported earlier programme “Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices” on developing … In the Central Himalaya these villages are primarily inhabited by traditional agrarian communities and located in Talla Sari area of …
Publication, 01 June 2015
More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
News, 28 June 2017