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Cover for 17448IIED.pdf

Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Cameroon: progress to date and possible futures

Publication, 01 December 2017

Cover for X00180.pdf

Ayni, Ayllu, Yanantin and Chanincha: The Cultural Values Enabling Adaptation to Climate Change in Communities of the Potato Park, in the Peruvian Andes

Publication, 01 January 2016

Cover for G04311.pdf

International policies and biocultural innovation: SIFOR policy review

Publication, 01 June 2018

Women cross a river

Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight

Insight, 14 July 2020

People sitting in a pasture

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

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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

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

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs

Article, 15 May 2018

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

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

Meeting of the Ogiek community of Sasimwani to review their draft by-laws (Photo: Namati/Jaron Vogelsang)

Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya

Event on 16 November 2018

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

Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge

News, 04 July 2016

A woman explains the importance of guarding against future encroachments on her community's common land in Northern Uganda (Photo: LEMU)

Protecting land and community resources in Africa

Insight, 07 March 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

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

Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples

Event on 07 July 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

Securing land rights for indigenous peoples, such as these members of the Xingu tribe, pictured in Brazil, is critical to alleviating poverty (Photo: Rights and Resources Initiative)

Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want

Insight, 24 March 2015

Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)

It's time for revolution in forest business

Insight, 17 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

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

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