There is a tendency, across governments and over time, to disregard local knowledge systems: Arati Kumar-Rao

Landscapes suffer because we do not learn from extreme events, the author of ‘Marginlands’ tells Down To Earth

How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

Indigenous children typically learn from an early age how to open paths through dense vegetation, how to tell edible fruits from non-edible ones

How Indigenous cultural practices can improve waste management in communities

Applying cultural practices is not common among community members because of the impacts of colonisation

CBD’s Geneva meetings: Benefit sharing on traditional knowledge & digital sequence information on agenda

Recommendations to be presented at upcoming meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical & Technological Advice as well as COP16

‘Ecology on steroids’: How Australia’s First Nations managed Australia’s ecosystems

A return to First Nations management is long overdue, as human-made climate change intensifies

Scaling sustainable food production in face of climate change is the defining challenge of our times

Localised and climate-smart agriculture can help preserve agrobiodiversity and reshape the larger narrative of responsible food production  &…

Pacific Islanders have long drawn wisdom from the Earth, the sky and the waves. Research shows the science is behind them

Much of traditional knowledge in the Pacific for coping with climate change is scientifically plausible