First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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How Yapuchiris build climate resilience
Near Cochabamba in Bolivia’s Andean high plateau, a group of agroecological farmers are leading the way by developing and sharing innovative practices that help their communities break out of the vicious cycle of increased poverty and vulnerability. But challenges remain. Read this story published in Farming Matters, June 2014.
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Access and Benefit Sharing Policy of Bhutan, 2014: draft
This Access and Benefit Sharing Policy is developed to guide access to Bhutan’s genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from
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Drought conditions and management strategies in India
Drought conditions and management strategies in India - Country Report prepared for the Regional Workshop for Asia-Pacific as part of the UN-Water Initiative on “Capacity Development to Support National
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Traditional processing of non- timber forest products in Cachar, Assam, India
Non timber forest products (NTFPs) play significant role in the protection of the livelihood safety net of the forest dwellers of North East India. The present study has the objectives of documenting the
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Indigenous knowledge about climate change: Validating the perceptions of dryland farmers in Tamil Nadu
Climate change is expected to adversely affect agricultural production in India. This study was undertaken to understand the dryland farmers’ perceptions about climate change, its impacts and indigenous
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Pisciculture oriented agriculture in the Ziro Valley
<p>Paddy is cultivated with fish rearing, is practised by the Apatani tribe of the ziro valley. The study analyses the contribution made to total and net revenue by the fish rearing component of the system.
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Adaptation in rice-wheat based sodic agroecosystems: A case study on climate resilient farmers’ practices
<p>Resource-poor farmers, living in marginal environments and more directly dependent on local natural resources, have developed location specific agricultural knowledge systems that help them to adapt
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Ethnomedicinal studies on Bondo tribe of Malkangiri District, Odisha, India
<p>Ethnomedicinal studies revealed the use of 34 angiospermic species by the Bondo tribe of Malkangiri district of Odisha. The traditional uses were observed to be wide spread and prevalent over modern
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Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands
New hybrid forms of climate change adaptation combining local and nonlocal/scientific knowledge are emerging across the Asian Highlands region. Yet, while local adaptive capacity can be based on place-based
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Influence of ethnolinguistic diversity on the Sorghum genetic patterns in subsistence farming systems in eastern Kenya
Understanding the effects of actions undertaken by human societies on crop evolution processes is a major challenge for the conservation of genetic resources. This study investigated the mechanisms whereby