Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

In the 1980s a group of farmers in the West African country of Burkina Faso decided to fight back against years of drought by resuscitating their barren rock-hard land to grow more food than only what they needed to survive...

The ScienceDaily reports on the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change and its agenda to discuss mitigation and adaptation policies inclusive of indigenous peoples...

This policy note aims to provide a directional path for mainstreaming indigenous knowledge in disaster risk reduction by national authorities and ministries of disaster management and education, institutions of higher education in disaster management, and

The general purpose of this report is to provide inspiration and ideas to implementing organizations to help them understand and identify local knowledge, practices and contexts in relation to disaster preparedness. For this purpose, a case study was

This publication aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural hazard-related disasters. By improving the understanding of indigenous knowledge and providing concrete examples of how it can be

This publication is one of a series produced under the project ‘Living with risk – sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region’, implemented by ICIMOD during a 15-month period in 2006 and 2007. It is based on a review of literature

This document presents the proceedings of the special session which had two main themes in the context of the ICCROM/World Heritage Centre partnership, to promote the integration of the traditional knowledge systems into risk management strategies.