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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Community protocols and access and benefit sharing
<p>The adoption of Nagoya Protocol was a landmark event in the history of Convention on Biological Diversity. This article examines the promises and potentials of the Protocol for indigenous peoples and local communities in ight of previous experiences in Access and Benefit Sharing framework. </p>
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Desert healer
Ruhi Kandhari travels to a cold desert in Himachal Pradesh to see how a former bureaucrat is greening it.
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Indigenous partnership for agrobiodiversity and food sovereignty
The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty is expected to generate a purposeful collaboration between indigenous communities, scientists and policy researchers, leading to the emergence of a
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Thermal monitoring and indoor temperature modeling in vernacular buildings of North-East India
Vernacular architecture is still very popular and constructed widely in North-East India. In this paper, the result of long-term monitoring of two vernacular houses selected one in Tezpur (warm and humid
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Interdependence of biodiversity and development under global change
This new volume of the CBD Technical Series presents an analysis of the systemic character of global change, biodiversity and human development, and the relationships between them. The report describes and evaluates the complicated relationships and dynamics between human and biological systems.
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An evaluation of the adaptability of Nigerian indigenous building tools in modern house construction
This study is a survey of the different types of tools and implements used for building operations in the Yoruba Indigenous Architecture of Nigeria. The tools include
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The basic doctor for rural India: A failed promise?
An analysis of the landmark 194646 Bhore Committee report suggests that vested interests may have played a role in shaping India
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Mountain biodiversity of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
<p>This booklet showcases selected images of mountain biodiversity and related issues from the 2010 ICIMOD Photo Contest on Mountain Biodiversity. The images were selected to highlight the importance of biodiversity in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, and the need for conservation and sustainable management at all levels.
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Living with floods- Adaptive strategies of local communities
Local communities have always found ingenious ways to overcome adverse conditions like floods, which affect not only farming but also lives and livelihoods. Over centuries, people have evolved ways and means to adapt to this natural phenomenon and have learnt to live with flooding situations.
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Modern Holland: built on centuries-old system
Holland is famous for its polders, or reclaimed land below sea level. The shaping of the Dutch landscape goes back to the 12th century, when rising water levels threatened agricultural land.