Explore unwritten histories: oral traditions & Indigenous knowledge systems. Learn why their preservation is globally urgent ...

Adrianne Lickers Xavier and Hiliary Monteith explore the topics of Indigenous knowledge, food and water security, and climate ...

Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in development all over the world. For centuries, various disciplines ranging from medicine to biodiversity conservation have ...

For long, the attitude of Western science was such that it called Indian traditional knowledge systems a mere superstition. It was much later that indigenous systems were recognised for their ...

Traditional Indigenous knowledge, also called traditional ecological knowledge or traditional knowledge, is compiled by tribes according to their distinct culture and generally is transmitted orally ...

The global food system contributes to multiple planetary crises—and is vulnerable to them. Climate change, other ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality are all linked to food.

Farmers in north India have been relying on their knowledge of animal behavior and wind patterns to plan their agricultural practices for hundreds of years, and now we might finally have the data to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Undisturbed peatlands act as carbon sinks and support biodiversity. Finland has drained 60% — more than 60,000 km2 (23,000 mi2) — of its peatlands, ...

Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. With young Walpiri increasingly growing up in towns, a generation of Warlpiri elders who grew up in the desert are developing resources to teach a ...