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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 in 10 countries … the Tuggoz Declaration , which calls on governments to recognise that traditional knowledge has equal and complementary value to western science, …
News, 06 October 2015
Cover for G02584.pdf
Submission to the Eighth Meeting of the CBD Working group on Access and benefit-sharing
… is based on research on customary laws and practices related to traditional knowledge and genetic resources and their implications for access and … It focused on both medicinal plants and agro-biodiversity and related traditional knowledge in different ecosystems (mountain, dryland, …
Publication, 01 September 2009
Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
Article, 21 March 2016
Cover for 16528IIED.pdf
Collective trademarks and biocultural heritage: towards new indications of distinction for indigenous peoples in the Potato Park, Peru
… Potato Park in Cusco, Peru, produce goods drawn from their collective traditional knowledge, biodiversity and fundamental ties to the land: their … IPR system to rural communities, alleviating poverty while protecting traditional knowledge, and strengthening biological and cultural …
Publication, 01 March 2013
Mountains such as the Andes, in Peru, are among the regions most affected by climate change (Photo: David Stanley via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities
… that are rooted in indigenous peoples' spiritual values and traditional knowledge. Mountains are among the regions most affected by climate … yaks, llamas and alpacas. In many mountain regions, indigenous and traditional peoples already face drastic changes in their food and …
News, 25 April 2014
Cover for G03151.pdf
Sevvetijarvi Declaration
… upon the international community to address remove bias against traditional knowledge from climate change science and policy. The “Sevettijärvi … Change (IPCC) to make all efforts necessary to include indigenous knowledge and local perspectives in its assessment processes. …
Publication, 01 October 2011
Cover for 16625IIED.pdf
Finding evidence for the impact of incentive-based hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh: combining theory-testing and remote sensing methods.
… to these outcomes. It combines statistical analyses of fishers’ knowledge and perceptions with remote sensing data to increase …
Publication, 01 November 2016
Cover for 14618IIED.pdf
PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… indigenous peoples – directly depend on biodiversity and related traditional knowledge for their livelihoods, food security, healthcare and … for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) for genetic resources and traditional knowledge; confronting threats from mining and protected …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.
How to green Africa from the grassroots
… the forces at work across the continent. They show a capacity to mix traditional with new forms of knowledge, to take advantage of innovations that make sense for them. …
Insight, 04 January 2021
A photo of the Amazon rainforest, with water in the foreground. Sixty per cent of the rainforest, which covers 2,100,000 square miles, is located in Brazil (Photo: www.bbmexplorer.com, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Critical theme: lessons and ideas for sustainable development in the Amazon
… was also be a 45-minute question-and-answer session, followed by traditional Brazilian refreshments. About the Critical Theme series IIED … Theme' discussion series to explore new ideas and to broaden the knowledge of its staff and partners.  The seminars cover a wide range of …
Event, 23 October 2017