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New Potato Deal in Peru Signposts Global Drive to Open Up Food Genebanks to Indigenous Peoples
… Though excluded and often oppressed today, indigenous peoples are the traditional custodians of biodiversity and this agreement restores these … new deal is unique because it will "ensure that genetic resources and knowledge remain under the custody of local communities and do not … This bucks the trend of privatising genetic resources and indigenous knowledge which has seen seed genebanks swallowed up by unaccountable …
News, 18 January 2005
Moveable feast: the floating gardens of Bangladesh
… approach that encourages local people to harness their own skills and knowledge in adapting to the impacts of climate change, and so fosters …
Article, 03 October 2008
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
… data in the hands of those who generated the data thereby protecting traditional knowledge and wisdom from external exploitation. “… it may take more … case studies Using Community Information Systems to express traditional knowledge embedded in the landscape  by Jon Corbett and …
Article, 31 March 2006
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 5 The outsider effect
… 9 got me thinking, particularly the agent to engage in exchange of knowledge contribution by Weyman Fussell. He raises a about fundamental … is an implicit There always is this unasked and never assumption that traditional values are always answered ... …
Publication, 01 January 1988
CBA12: Key messages
… adaptation technology Transforming 'lived experience' and local knowledge into evidence that drives better policies and investments … on investment explicit. Transforming 'lived experience' and local knowledge into evidence that drives better policies and investments We … of disadvantage and vulnerability – particularly where they relate to traditional household roles We need to move beyond the nominal inclusion …
Article, 11 June 2018
Polluted air coming out of the smoke stacks of a factory in Shanghai, China.
The least developed countries, equity, and a brave new world
Insight, 02 July 2013
This sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur, was funded by the Asian Development Bank. There are concerns omitting local people from decision-making processes can lead to climate funds not sufficiently representing local priorities (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level
… there is a clear need for balancing decentralised solutions with traditional large-scale infrastructure projects, not one project from … the developing world sub-national entities often lack capacity, knowledge and any experience of putting together fundable proposals. As … and civil society groups. However, these institutions often lack knowledge of and access to large-scale international climate finance. By …
Insight, 28 October 2015
A six-minute film recorded in the Mathare settlement, Narobi, in late April 2015 shows some of the main challenges faced by food vendors living and working inside low-income informal settlements (Image: Paolo Cravero/IIED)
Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts
… potential.  Contributing to this is a lack of information. While traditional vending locations such as markets and business districts are … data (PDF) . To achieve sustainable urban food security, the knowledge and insights from local communities are fundamental. It is …
Insight, 24 June 2015
The rugged coastline of Jeju Island, South Korea, where the World Conservation Congress is being held.
IUCN World Conservation Congress begins
… between conservation, poverty and livelihoods, and another on using traditional knowledge to help people adapt to climate change. Controversial location …
Insight, 06 September 2012
Food and farming futures for small producers and indigenous peoples
… and Political Weekly 37 (27), July 6, 2002) Prajateerpu, power and knowledge: The politics of participatory action research in development
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Article, 15 July 2009