Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

For centuries, the Tuareg have managed scarce water and grazing resources through mobility, cooperation and customary law. Governments and international donors should recognize them and other Indigenous groups as partners in climate adaptation.

CDRI invites photographers to capture indigenous and traditional practices that have made communities resilient to natural hazards and to share the story of their resilience characteristics and impact.

This report presents an evidence-based assessment of New Zealand’s atmosphere and climate, highlighting record-high greenhouse gases and temperatures, increased weather extremes, and the urgent need for adaptation and resilience.

This paper analyzes household survey and meteorological data from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Bangladesh, finding that more accurate weather forecasts reduce crop losses and help farmers adjust labor hiring, especially during extreme weather events.

Long before building codes, communities designed homes for earthquakes, heat and floods. Many of their techniques still work. Discover 6 examples of how time-tested traditional knowledge is making homes around the world more resilient. 🛖

Forest expansion and thickening after British colonization has created landscapes more prone to burning, amplifying the influence of climate change and propelling Australia’s bushfire crisis, a new study has found.

With floods and contamination overwhelming Kathmandu’s water systems, communities are restoring traditional stone spouts that once served as the valley’s primary water source.

In the old times, wildfires happened a lot more frequently than people assume. And wildfires also happened due to natural phenomena such as lightning. So both completely untouched ecosystems & humans in nature had to learn to live with wildfires

Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are based on their close observation of weathe and seasonal change, and they have been refined through generations of learning.