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The major importance of ‘minor’ resources: women and plant biodiversity
… throughout history, women’s daily work has required more of this knowledge. This paper describes how women predominate in plant … and to the importance of plants for women’s status and welfare.  Traditional knowledge and indigenous rights to plants are everywhere … and promoting the inter-generational transmission of women’s traditional knowledge; recognising indigenous rights systems and women’s …
Publication, 01 January 2003
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
… information and digital tools All WCCI partners report that traditional climate information is being generated and used by their … in an easy to understand way and remains widely used for sharing knowledge and experience around weather and climate. Data from national … respond to challenges. Communities are already using a combination of traditional and technical-scientific climate information at the local …
Article, 03 December 2020
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Table of contents: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65)
… for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) for genetic resources and traditional knowledge; confronting threats from mining and protected areas; and …
Publication, 01 June 2012
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Community protocols and free, prior informed consent: overview and lessons learnt (PLA 65)
… to defend their heritage and assert their rights over resources and traditional knowledge. They emphasise the importance of community level …
Publication, 01 June 2012
"A masterpiece of the world's intangible heritage", bark cloth is processed to be used in fashion, accessories, house wares, interior design, and other forms of art (Photo: David Nkwanga)
Field visits to highlight community-based adaptation in Uganda
Insight, 25 April 2017
Three people with a pile of vicuña wool
Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade
… management skills and capacity and recognising and integrating traditional knowledge into management. It also notes the damage more militarised … approaches to tackling IWT can cause to community livelihoods and traditional practices. Were they heard in Lima? On day two of the wider …
Insight, 06 November 2019
Talking change: climate change adaptation in Tanzania
News, 01 June 2012
A woman explains the importance of guarding against future encroachments on her community's common land in Northern Uganda (Photo: LEMU)
Protecting land and community resources in Africa
… strategy, make good use of the community's existing skills, assets, knowledge and resources.  In Nambia, Integrated Rural Development and … Conservation supported elders in the Khwe San community to use their traditional knowledge and skills to create an ecological wildlife tracker training project in the Bwabwata National Park. The Traditional Environmental Knowledge Outreach Academy (TEKOA) provides …
Insight, 07 March 2016
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… culture that is helping to preserve agricultural biodiversity and traditional farming practices in several hundred villages in Medak … video and had proven that illiteracy was no barrier. "The farmers' traditional narrative and pictorial understanding of their environment … Development Society. "People felt both respected and empowered in the knowledge that they would be working with and communicating about this …
News, 14 May 2008
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PLA 65 - 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 …
Article, 31 May 2012