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Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change
… producers; this Gatekeeper paper draws lessons from this wealth of knowledge in order to inform adaptation planning efforts at all levels. … analysis for adaptation planning. Similarly, it is vital to use traditional knowledge and management skills, which can further support adaptation …
Publication, 01 April 2013
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Urbanisation, changing tastes and rural transformation in West Africa
… and consumed. Indeed, imported food may actually be integrated within traditional meals. At a workshop in Dakar, Senegal, participants reviewed current knowledge on these trends and how they affect low-income groups. They …
Publication, 01 February 2016
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Consent and conservation: getting the most from community protocols
… A wealth of traditional crop varieties, medicinal plants and other genetic resources … Diversity, which requires prior informed consent for access to traditional knowledge and genetic resources, and calls for support of ‘community …
Publication, 01 October 2012
A flooded village with damaged houses.
Practical lessons on implementing business unusual 
Insight, 15 June 2022
A group of people sit in a circle outside on grass.
Engaging citizens for socially just climate action
Project, 15 October 2020
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs
Article, 15 May 2018
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Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?
… conduct of conservation organisations. Local people’s agency and knowledge can no longer be excluded.  This is crucial for the legacy of …
Insight, 21 May 2019
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Protecting Farmers’ Rights with Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Territories: The Experience of the Potato Park
… Conference of the Parties in 2008. ~It argues that the protection of traditional knowledge can only be accomplished by protecting and promoting the … the CBD and WIPO- to consider a sui generis system for protection of traditional knowledge based on IBCTs. Follow the links below for more …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Group of women forming a circle in a discussion
Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?
… been using EbA approaches, working with scientists and drawing on traditional knowledge, to conserve and breed crop varieties that are better adapted … Participants pointed to the need to support Indigenous and local knowledge and women’s voices as part of diverse knowledge systems being …
Insight, 12 July 2021
Woman digging a hole in the forest
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
… Robust to climate futures : combine local, Indigenous and traditional knowledge systems with scientific and technical insights so as to test … behavioural change. Collaborative : create a social and collaborative knowledge network that grows through referrals (inviting more partners …
Insight, 20 January 2021