Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in development all over the world. For centuries, various disciplines ranging from medicine to biodiversity conservation have ...

Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. The ...

July 10, 2019 — The idea that our current agricultural and food system needs adjusting isn’t exactly revolutionary these days. In fact, many scientists and others believe that it could use an entire ...

Traditional Indigenous knowledge, also called traditional ecological knowledge or traditional knowledge, is compiled by tribes according to their distinct culture and generally is transmitted orally ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. As the world gathers this week in Addis Ababa for the second stocktake of the U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4), the urgency of transforming food ...

The global food system contributes to multiple planetary crises – and is vulnerable to them. Climate change, other ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality are all linked to food.

By Carlos Minuano “One of the world’s largest pharmacies is being destroyed,” says Benki Piyãko, a leader of the Ashaninka ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

Dar es Salaam. Medical researchers have been challenged to unlock the country's vast wealth of traditional medicinal knowledge through rigorous scientific research, a move experts say could expand ...