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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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Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)

Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge

News, 04 July 2016

Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion

Insight, 05 February 2016

The impact of drought on formerly arable land can be seen in Fuyuan county in southwest China's Yunnan province, an area known for its mild climate (Photo: Mingjia Zhou, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Mountain communities being devastated by extreme climate impacts

News, 18 November 2015

The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)

Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops

News, 06 October 2015

The Bailique community, mainly artisanal fishermen and forest users near the Amazon River, have established the first community protocol in Brazil (Photo: Roberta Ramos)

Brazil's first community protocol: the Bailique experience

Insight, 25 August 2015

Biocultural products of the Potato Park in Peru, an example of the goods and services that can be produced by indigenous peoples to provide income and enhance incentives to sustain biocultural heritage (Photo: ANDES)

Consultation: designing a new biocultural heritage indication

Insight, 20 August 2015

Representatives from indigenous mountain communities gather in Bhutan to discuss the impacts of climate change and how to respond using their biocultural heritage

New film highlights mountain communities' climate workshop

News, 18 May 2015

The Amaru community, in Peru, do not use any fertiliser on their crops (Image: Adam Kerby)

'Guardians of Diversity' film in Spanish and Chinese

News, 16 February 2015

The rich agro-biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas (Photo: Nawraj Gurung)

Unmissable opportunity to build food security and reduce GHGs at Paris COP

News, 12 February 2015

A Potato Park farmer in Peru leads the Potato Guardians collective (Photo: Adam Kerby)

Return of potatoes from CIP to Andean farmers proves critical for climate adaptation

News, 27 November 2014

Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)

New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories

News, 11 November 2014

The new Guardians of Diversity film documents a gathering of indigenous farmers from mountain communities around the world to exchange knowledge and ideas

Film documents visit to "Guardians of Diversity" in the Potato Park

News, 10 November 2014

Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)

IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014

Event on 12 November 2014

A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)

A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity

Insight, 07 October 2014

Representatives of communities from Peru, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea have formed an International network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Photo: Lhab Tshering)

Indigenous mountain communities call on governments to support traditional knowledge-based adaptation

News, 18 June 2014

Local sheep varieties in the Potato Park, Peru, where an agreement was recently forged to share indigenous crop varieties and knowledge about how to grow them in different climates and landscapes (Photo: IIED)

Indigenous farmers from Peru, China and Bhutan agree to share seeds for climate adaptation

News, 08 May 2014

Mountains such as the Andes, in Peru, are among the regions most affected by climate change (Photo: David Stanley via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities

News, 25 April 2014

This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

2014: the International Year of Family Farming

Article, 22 April 2014

Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces respond to climatic adversity by using their own innovations and biocultural heritage

China's farmers innovate to adapt to climate change

Insight, 17 December 2013

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 herbalist shares information on medicinal and food plants growing in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Coastal Forest in Kenya

Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)

Archived Project

UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy

Article, 16 August 2013

Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)

Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems

Article, 05 August 2013

Farmers sharing potatoes in the Potato Park near Pisaq (Sacred Valley), Peru

Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge

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