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Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)
Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
… and supporting farmer-led innovation that is largely based on local knowledge and resources. Farmers' knowledge and understanding of new … vice versa. We are working with indigenous communities to strengthen traditional knowledge-based innovation systems and agrobiodiversity for … design, building on farmers’ own experiences. Many local and traditional practices are based on principles of agroecology  – the …
Article, 05 August 2013
Cover for G03073.pdf
Community Bio-Cultural Protocols – what, why and how?
… not just be developed for access and benefit-sharing relating to traditional knowledge, as envisaged in the Nagoya Protocol, but can be used by …
Publication, 01 May 2010
View of a mountain with a few houses. Snowed mountains in the background.
Loss and damage: erosion of Nepal’s life, land and beauty is deep and irreparable
Insight, 19 January 2022
Cover for G03623.pdf
New perspectives on climate resilient drylands development: Refining the arguments
… and public institutions, based on sound scientific evidence and traditional local knowledge and experience. In order that a reframed discourse on climate … and at the global level to better understand its content and the knowledge and information systems, the premises and evidence used in its …
Publication, 01 January 2013
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
News, 11 November 2014
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
… how he offers to double the purchase price of produce grown from traditional varieties.  It's enough to convince local farmers not to abandon generations of knowledge. He helps them to market the produce carefully, targeting customers in urban areas who love heritage varieties and traditional culture. The film shows that biocultural heritage is about …
News, 14 March 2017
Cover for 17131IIED.pdf
Planning adaptation for food and farming: lessons from 40 years’ research
Publication, 01 May 2012
Woman with jerrycans and two donkeys.
Exploring intersectionality: what does it look like for IIED and our partners?
Insight, 06 January 2021
Cover for 17094IIED.pdf
Development online: making the most of social media
… These are changing the way we live and work, reshaping the way knowledge is controlled and created and challenging traditional business models and powerbases. For the development sector, …
Publication, 01 June 2011
Cover for G03557.pdf
Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)
… will help redress the balance: nurturing smallholder advances and traditional knowledge, identifying innovations that enhance productivity; and …
Publication, 01 January 2012