Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

This guidance note shares 'live lessons' learned - told through first-person stories - that contribute to disaster preparedness, mitigation, and a recovery that builds back better.

This publication is based on a selection of the many stories and experiences from Cordaid partners in community managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR) and climate change adaptation and includes details of the global declaration on CMDRR and climate

After travelling around Kenya and the Philippines, Jessica Mercer a disaster risk reduction adviser to CAFOD writes about the similarities in the challenges communities, in those countries faced, including drought, conflict, floods and general environmental degradation...

Traditional Pacific know-how in building design could become one of the most effective ways for Pacific Islanders to withstand the impacts of climate change according to one of the winners of the 2009 Development Marketplace – Tafaoimalo (Loudeen) Parsons...

In Disasters, in press:

This paper presents a framework demonstrating how relevant indigenous and scientific knowledge may be integrated to reduce a community's vulnerability to environmental hazards, using a participatory approach and focusing on small

First Peoples Worldwide is awarding three $5,000 grants for videos documenting indigenous communities using traditional knowledge to adapt to, or mitigate the impacts of climate change on their lands and waterways...

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...