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Cover for G03979.pdf
The Tuggoz Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous Peoples
… Tajikistan, 11–18 September 2015 We, over 50 indigenous peoples and traditional farmers representing 21 communities in 10 countries,together … and forests, and the protection of our rich cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and spiritual values which sustain and enhance this …
Publication, 01 October 2015
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
Project, 29 April 2019
A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… new technologies and practices to confront these challenges,  using traditional knowledge and crop varieties, alongside modern technologies. In coastal … Kenya, some farmers have started planting improved, hybrid and traditional varieties together, especially  maize and cassava, to reduce …
Insight, 07 October 2014
A Bolivian woman stallholder sells potatoes and other vegetables. Bolivian diets are changing, moving away from traditional foods and towards processed foods (Photo: Mauricio Panozo, Lucano Photography)
The Bolivian diet: women’s voices and choices
… a food system that has the potential to embrace the country's traditional crops and agricultural biodiversity – but instead is … paint a picture of a changing food system that has moved from traditional indigenous foods such as potatoes and beans, to a heavy … women in her area. Silvia cannot wait to pass on her new culinary knowledge to others in the San Lorenzo district of La Paz. “Around my …
News, 08 March 2019
“Protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous people benefits us all”
… shows that indigenous peoples sustain an enormous diversity of traditional crop varieties, practices and knowledge, and that these play an important part in building resilience … indigenous peoples conserve over 1,500 different varieties of potato. Traditional varieties are also better adapted to cope with more extreme …
Insight, 09 June 2011
Cover for G03916.pdf
Emerging Biocultural Innovations for Climate Resilience in Southwest China - SIFOR Qualitative Baseline Study
… and climatic challenges. It focused on internal innovations based on traditional knowledge (TK) and biocultural heritage, as well as those developed … and NGOs(non-governmental organisations), using both TK and external knowledge – notably participatory plant breeding (PPB) and …
Publication, 01 March 2015
Cover for 14657IIED.pdf
Climate change and biocultural adaptation in mountain communities: second international learning exchange of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous People
… Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) aims to exchange traditional knowledge and seeds for climate adaptation and food sovereignty and to …
Publication, 01 February 2016
Cover for G03405.pdf
Sacred groves versus gold mines: biocultural community protocols in Ghana (PLA 65)
… This article relates the events leading up to protests by Tanchara traditional leaders in Ghana against gold mining on the community’s … a community organisational process which revitalised the community’s traditional authorities and role in biodiversity conservation. The … protocol (BCP) as a tool to seek legal protection for its traditional knowledge and natural resources against the threat of gold mining. The …
Publication, 01 June 2012
a young man walks along an irrigation channel
Jobs, nature and the Green New Deal: lessons from the global South
… could make their social assistance programme more effective. Blending traditional knowledge with contemporary understanding Whichever approach they … be more effective if they strengthen local institutions that blend traditional technical knowledge with contemporary understanding of …
Insight, 30 January 2020
The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people. 
Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
News, 30 August 2016