Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

This report provides an overview of the published scientific literature relating to the contribution of traditional/indigenous knowledge to our understanding of global climate change: observations, impacts and opportunities for adaptation. Issues

Rural indigenous communities in the southern Andean highlands of Peru's Cuzco and Apurímac regions have been hit hard by climate change. Endemic poverty has meant that these remote communities cannot afford a bad harvest. Yet in recent years sudden changes in weather are impacting traditional crops...

Erratic water supply, warmer temperatures and severe flash floods - among others - left an extremely resilient community vulnerable and helpless in the face of climate changes: why SEEDS considers the integration of disaster risk reduction DRR and climate change adaptation CCA into local development planning as an imperative step in its 17-month action research project...

'There needs to be more recognition from western science of the value of traditional ecological knowledge, so we need to look at how we can better inform the government of what tribal leaders bring to the table in regard to responding to climate change,' said Micah McCarty, who represented the Makah tribe at the First Stewards symposium...

Indigenous knowledge is threatened by globalization and the continued marginalization and impoverishment of indigenous peoples, asserts Emily Kirkland on AlertNet's Climate Conversations blog. She urges NGOs and governments to promote, protect, and disseminate traditional knowledge...

'You need both scientific and local understanding. Both sets of information could support the other for understanding more about how you could develop a system where all could survive,' said Sydney Allicock, an Amerindian community leader from North Rupununi, Guyana...

IFRC discussion paper on resilience, June 2012:

This document presents IFRC's definition of and perspectives on resilience. It presents resilience as the ability of individuals, communities, organisations or countries exposed to disasters, crises and

The largest UN summit ever organized closes today with an urgent worldwide call for accelerated implementation of the international blueprint for disaster risk reduction agreed by all UN member States seven years ago.