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Traditional knowledge

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work advocating for the importance of the traditional knowledge and innovations of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in addressing the nature and climate crises.

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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 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 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

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

Early start: A cow being milked at first light in the village of Kimokouwa (credit: Toby Mitchell)

Mixing meteorology with traditions to improve climate forecasts for pastoralists

Insight, 19 March 2014

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

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

Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge

Archived Project

Farmers sit in a field sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, Peru.

Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level

Insight, 04 July 2012

With food and climate change, policymakers risk betting on the wrong horse

News, 31 October 2011

New website shows how nature plus culture equals resilience

News, 18 May 2011

UN food treaty on plant genetic resources must protect farmers’ rights

News, 14 March 2011

Major deposit in biodiversity bank to protect future of food

News, 22 February 2011

Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge

Article, 09 November 2009

Seed industry and UN agency ignore traditional ways to protect biodiversity and knowledge

News, 09 November 2009

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