Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Practices and skills to reduce community vulnerability and cope with hazards, accumulated over many years of living in a specific environment and passed down from one generation to another.

Latest Traditional and Indigenous knowledges additions in the Knowledge Base

Photo of Mount Fako, Cameroon by John and Mel Kots, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic http://www.flickr.com/photos/melanieandjohn/2347261849/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Mount Fako is renowned for its spate of eruptions. Oluwole Olusegun Akiyode and Awa Mangie Achu Samba have looked through historic perspectives, developmental antecedents of residents and indigenous communities and are highlighting the need for an effective disaster risk reduction policy for the region...
University for Peace

This document addresses the mechanisms and policies that can be used to support improvements in generating, disseminating, and using climate information to respond to the direct effect that extreme climatic events, such as droughts and floods, as well as

The "FAO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples" aims to provide guidance to the agency's various technical units and encourage staff in headquarters and in the regions to engage more systematically and responsibly with indigenous peoples and their organizations...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters

This booklet outlines public knowledge, natural warnings and evacuation strategies that helped people live through fast-arriving tsunamis threatening coastal areas near tsunami sources - most of which are on the Pacific Rim, beside parts of the Indian

This report address the growing concerns about Artic’s vulnerability. It examines the limitations and strengths of existing environmental agreements for conserving and protecting Arctic biodiversity, and options for improvement. It calls Arctic governance

by Flickr user 棟樑‧Harry‧黃基峰‧Taiwan / Harry Huang, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic, http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldentime/2758279647/
Agriculture in developing countries must become 'climate-smart' in order to cope with the combined challenge of feeding a warmer, more heavily populated world, says a new FAO report citing many existing effective climate-smart practices...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters

This report explores how the local communities and natural resources of the Klamath Basin of southern Oregon and northern California are expected to be affected by climate change and identifies approaches to preparing for such changes, while many of the

'Sri Lanka is in a position to revitalize its proven historical experience on preparedness such as the ancient irrigation culture and other cultural practices to minimize disaster impact including climate change' said UN resident representative, Neil Buhne in a report by the Daily News...
Daily News, the

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