Traditional Knowledge
Traditional knowledge, indigenous knowledge and local knowledge generally refer to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities. Traditional knowledge includes types of knowledge about traditional technologies of subsistence (e.g. tools and techniques for hunting or agriculture), midwifery, ethnobotany and ecological knowledge, traditional medicine, celestial navigation, craft skills, ethnoastronomy, climate, and others. These kinds of knowledge, crucial for subsistence and survival, are generally based on accumulations of empirical observation and on interaction with the environment. In many cases, traditional knowledge has been passed for generations from person to person, as an oral tradition. Some forms …
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Lowy Institute for International Policy · 1 December 2023 English
As climate impacts intensify and threaten the habitability of more and more places where people live and work, governments and regional organisations increasingly see the need to consider planned relocation …
support from the government, relying on traditional knowledge to protect their way of life and cultural …
Oxfam International · 29 November 2023 English
This study was undertaken to support and empower Southern African leaders, activists, civil society organizations (CSOs) and policymakers, in the lead up to COP 27 and beyond, in the debate …
change and acknowledging the indigenous or traditional knowledge of those suffering from severe climate harms …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 29 November 2023 English
The Asian Development Bank’s Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) aims to strengthen climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific through scaling up investment in climate adaptation, explicitly addressing the nexus …
climate records and models with local and traditional knowledge systems of local climate risks and effective …
NAI: Nordic Africa Institute · 29 November 2023 English
Recognising and including the knowledge and contributions of indigenous peoples in building resilient food systems is crucial. Kenyan decision-makers must empower indigenous peoples to actively engage in local climate adaptation …
2022. Towards a rights-based innovative traditional knowledge tool for systematic weather peoples’ roles …
CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 29 November 2023 English
Northern Research Leadership and Equity Expert Panel on the Future of Arctic and Northern Research in Canada Northern Research Leadership and Equity Expert Panel on the Future of Arctic and …
through the (mis)representation of it as traditional knowledge, a body of data that is unchanged as it … sustainable housing, health, performing arts, Traditional knowledge, language, and science” (AIP, n.d.-a). Each … exists between the opportunity to learn traditional knowledge and the public distribution or commercialization … protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well … intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions. 2 …
More in Common · 29 November 2023 English
Her studies of electoral reform in Alaska, the behavioral interventions of Braver Angels of Central Texas, and the “everyday democracy” of Blue Mountain Forest Partners in Oregon draw on 47 …
See: Michelle M. Steen-Adams et al., “Traditional Knowledge of a way that is accessible to nonspecialists …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 29 November 2023 English
The Digital Democracy Network’s contributors offer global perspectives on digital repression trends, the role of tech platforms, digital sovereignty, and the impact of geopolitics and governance on technology.Across the globe, …
brazen appropriation of land, property, and traditional knowledge systems which were replaced by colonial …
IEN: Indigenous Environmental Network · 28 November 2023 English
Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) is mandated to provide Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge to the Subsidiary Body for Science and Technological Advice (SBSTA) in areas of Adaptation … information on existing rights of indigenous peoples related to the exchange and safeguarding of traditional knowledge (Version 11 June 2021) lays the foundation for establishing Indigenous rights as the basis … institutionalized with the LCIP and the UNFCCC. [...] The proper protection of Indigenous traditional knowledge is an Indigenous issue and Indigenous Peoples should be central to this process.1 The following …
(LCIPP) is mandated to provide Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge to the Subsidiary Body for Science and Technological … related to the exchange and safeguarding of traditional knowledge (Version 11 June 2021) lays the foundation … with a Nation’s respective world view, traditional knowledge, and protocols. In relation to the work … international attention for many years, Indigenous traditional knowledge is still vulnerable to misappropriation … It is time to recognise that Indigenous traditional knowledge is not simply an intellectual property issue …
SAIIA: South African Institute of International Affairs · 27 November 2023 English
Protocol 45 recognise the importance of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and traditional knowledge and require the sharing of benefits arising from their utilisation. …
and sustainable use of biodiversity and traditional knowledge and require the sharing of benefits arising … are the custodians of biodiversity and traditional knowledge are fairly compensated for their contributions …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 24 November 2023 English
with a specific focus on the potential of traditional knowledge (TK) and local, culture-based adaptation … the research asks how the potential of traditional knowledge can be harnessed to strengthen resilience …
