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Men present findings on a large map at the front of a community meeting
How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!
Insight, 17 January 2020
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The Huaran Declaration: Indigenous Peoples are the real solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises
Publication, 17 June 2024
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Rethinking capacity building
… lenses to examine the concept and approach behind capacity building. Traditional capacity building approaches have global Northern biases, often undervaluing local knowledge and treating learning as a one-off transaction. Learning from …
Publication, 11 March 2024
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International conference on agrobiodiversity: sharing best practice in nature-based solutions from forest and farm producer organisation
… that help to protect and manage agrobiodiversity for better or worse Traditional knowledge of agroforestry systems and knowledge exchange practices that maintain agrobiodiversity Seed and …
Publication, 27 June 2024
At CBA12 participants talked about the different ways their cultures create inclusive spaces to reach consensus-based decisions (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
The power of storytelling: can traditions from the past find answers to the climate problem?
Insight, 17 August 2018
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Integrating agrobiodiversity for livelihood options in Bhimphedi municipality, Nepal
Publication, 02 June 2023
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
Insight, 02 October 2013
A woman stands behind a market stall of fresh vegetables, smiling proudly.
Investing in biodiverse agriculture in Ecuador’s highlands: UNORCAC and the Santa Anita cooperative
… Organizations of Cotacachi) has worked since 1977 to preserve traditional farming knowledge for at least 172 crops within Ecuador’s chakra agroforestry … organises a bio-knowledge centre that runs a communal seed bank for traditional varieties of maize and beans and which demonstrates …
Article, 31 May 2024
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SDG2: achieving food security, sustainability and resilience using genetic diversity and indigenous knowledge
… The genetic diversity preserved by Indigenous knowledge and practices provides a valuable resource for improving food … China and Peru shows that crop and farming innovations based on traditional knowledge and crops - or biocultural heritage - can … landscapes, participatory plant breeding and market linkages for traditional products. …
Publication, 01 December 2016
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016