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Indigenous Peoples call for climate change compensation
Leaders at COP29 urged to ‘significantly’ increase funding given directly to groups conserving precious resources and ecosystems.
CBD Working Group 8J & FAO Treaty: protecting traditional knowledge
In November 2023, IIED, INMIP, ANDES (Peru) and partners organised side events at two global policy meetings on traditional knowledge and genetic resources: the Biodiversity Convention Working Group on Article 8J, and the FAO Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.
"Sumaq Kawsay": alternative development rooted in the wellbeing of humans and nature
An approach to development practice from the Indigenous cultures of the Andes that promotes ecological harmony.
Achieving 30x30: supporting Indigenous and traditional territories and cultures
If the world is to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, we must support Indigenous Peoples and local communities to strengthen and protect their territories and cultures, and ensure their full and meaningful participation in developing conservation policy.
COP15 should protect mountain landscapes, and the Indigenous Peoples and local communities governing them
Mountains crucial to halting nature loss and addressing climate change. For millennia, Indigenous and traditional peoples’ cultural and spiritual values and traditional knowledge have played a crucial role in conserving and enhancing biodiversity in mountain landscapes.
COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance
Traditional landscapes conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) across different ecosystems sustain vital ecosystem services and can deliver large-scale emission reductions. Yet despite being highly vulnerable to climate impacts, IPLCs still receive only a tiny fraction of climate aid. COP27 must provide urgent financial support to IPLC-governed organisations to protect these vital but threatened landscapes.
Lessons from Indigenous food systems
IIED principal researcher Krystyna Swiderska discussed what can we learn from Indigenous Peoples and their food systems in an online event following the UN Food Systems Summit.
Building resilience through Indigenous food systems
At COP26 in Glasgow, Indigenous Quechua farmers from the Potato Park in Peru and Mijikenda farmers from the Rabai sacred Kaya forest landscape (Kenya) shared their enormous wisdom about resilient crops, farming practices and nutritious foods. Watch a full recording of the event.
Podcast: Indigenous knowledge, people and nature – all crucial to Kunming
Exploring the concept of Biocultural Heritage, which comes from the lived experience of Indigenous Peoples and is critical to the success of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework up for negotiation in Kunming later this year.