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Biocultural heritage

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to conserve biodiversity and genetic resources specific to a particular location, enhancing livelihoods and reviving cultural traditions.

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125 entries

Preview of 17400IIED.pdf

Knowledge-based participatory action research

Publication, 01 March 2017

Preview of G03443.pdf

Protecting traditional health knowledge in Kenya: the role of customary laws and practices

Publication, 01 October 2012

Preview of G04342.pdf

The Suusamyr Declaration

Publication, 01 December 2018

Preview of G04038.pdf

SIFOR Survey Questionnaires (farmer household)

Publication, 01 February 2016

A family harvesting potatoes in front of a lake, with a landscape of mountains in the background.

Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss

News, 23 September 2020

A stallholder in front of a food stall

Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition

Insight, 22 May 2020

An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience

Active Project

Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees

Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity

Insight, 18 February 2020

People sitting in a pasture

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

Active Project

View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

Archived Project

The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)

Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security

News, 15 February 2019

IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)

Event on 17 November 2018

Indigenous women in Bangladesh's Lawachara National Park collecting wood for building (Photo: Fabian Lambeck, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

Three ‘E’s to guide the post-2020 biodiversity roadmap

Insight, 06 November 2018

Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians

Article, 30 October 2018

A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi

As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops

Insight, 29 October 2018

Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)

Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity

Article, 18 October 2018

Indigenous people at the Himalayan workshop

Biocultural heritage landscape to be established in Eastern Himalayas

News, 30 November 2017

More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)

Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs

News, 28 June 2017

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

News, 14 March 2017

The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))

Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results

Insight, 16 January 2017

IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun

Event on 04 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

The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people.

Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish

News, 30 August 2016

Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)

IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

Event on 01 September 2016

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