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Woman sitting leg crossed on the floor hold a laptop in front of an audience of men
Online tool helps people in rural India adapt to climate change
News, 20 October 2022
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Protecting indigenous knowledge against biopiracy in the Andes
… developed by Andean communities in Peru in order to protect their knowledge against biopiracy and gain legal rights relating over their … peoples’ knowledge systems for sustaining their livelihoods and traditional resource rights. The Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Register, based on traditional Andean science and technology, also uses modern tools for …
Publication, 01 December 2006
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Traditional resource rights and indigenous people in the Andes
… action research is actively developing an integrated model to protect traditional knowledge systems based on the conservation and sustainable use of the ecosystems in which indigenous peoples knowledge and innovations thrive. The model builds on the Andean concept … Traditional resource rights and indigenous people in the Andes …
Publication, 01 November 2005
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Sumaq Kausay and Ayllu: Quechua values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Chalakuy Maize Park, Lares, Peru
… (BCHTs) are mosaics of land uses, deeply linked to Indigenous knowledge systems embedded in cultural traditions, where Indigenous knowledge and practices effectively combine food production with … park. The study found no evidence of cultural values and practices or traditional knowledge that hinder sustainability or equity. Quechua …
Publication, 06 August 2021
Foggy forest landscape with wooden housing
Scaling up community-led ecosystem-based adaptation in biodiverse forest landscapes in Viet Nam
Project, 13 February 2023
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Indigenous Naxi-Moso cultural values and worldviews for sustainable development: Four Village Biocultural Heritage Coalition, Yunnan, China
… (BCHTs) are mosaics of land uses, deeply linked to Indigenous knowledge systems embedded in cultural traditions, where Indigenous knowledge and practices effectively combine food production with … experience to further promote the protection and sustainable use of traditional ecological culture. It also suggests that a bottom-up, …
Publication, 06 August 2021
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The Bushbuckridge BCP: traditional health practitioners organise for ABS in South Africa (PLA 65)
… With a history of uncompensated bioprospecting, the Kukula traditional health practitioners of Bushbuckridge, South Africa are … – and calls for the community’s rights over its land, resources and knowledge to be respected. With support from Natural Justice, the … The Bushbuckridge BCP: traditional health practitioners organise for ABS in South Africa (PLA …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Insight, 09 March 2015
An Ethiopian farmer demonstrates the the impact of rain shortage on his maize crop (Photo: Dagnachew Belachew via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Connecting the dots: Sharing knowledge to build climate resilient green economies
Insight, 19 February 2014
Farmers from Mali and neighbouring countries.
International farmers exchange for mutual learning: Privatisation of knowledge and seeds
… farmers’ organisations to learn about the privatisation of seeds and knowledge, including local initiatives to document indigenous knowledge and articulate and protect rights over seeds and knowledge. … on behalf of the 60 workshop participants were: Support the use of traditional seeds and animal breeds for food sovereignty Stop in the …
News, 03 February 2009