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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.

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Incorporating indigenous knowledge systems-based climate services in anticipatory action in Zimbabwe: an ex-ante assessment

This publication investigates the integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)-based climate services in seasonal climate forecasting.
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Tongan weather service engaging with more people by incorporating traditional knowledge into forecasts

This podcast explains how the weather service in Tonga has been including traditional knowledge into forecasts and how that’s been received by the community.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
African woman, Ghana
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Traditional weather forecasts: Expert shares 5 ways Africa’s coastal residents predict floods

Traditional knowledge helps communities prepare for potential flooding. Transferring this knowledge doesn’t always happen, however. Scientists and policymakers don’t always recognise its value.
Conversation Media Group, the
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The all-women crew fighting Indonesia's peatland fires

Fires are a major threat to Borneo's people, forests, and wildlife. An all-female crew is combating them while changing attitudes towards women.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Australian native performing traditional ritual with fire.
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Climate change will strike Australia’s precious World Heritage sites – and Indigenous knowledge is a key defence

Bringing climate science and Indigenous knowledge systems together promises to produce better results for heritage protection as the climate changes. And there is no time to waste.
Conversation Media Group, the
An illustration of a child carry water through an area affected by drought to their homes in canisters.
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An ancient system that could bring water to dry areas

Some of Africa’s dry areas face serious water shortages due to minimal rainfall. An ancient system of drawing water from aquifers, the “qanat system”, could help.
Conversation Media Group, the
Wildfire, Thailand
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What we learned about wildfires in 2023

PreventionWeb offers you 5 key learnings we picked up about wildfires in 2023.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Pastoralists as conservationists

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, Ian Scoones explore the role of pastoralists in rangeland conservation.
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