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Film: Quechua farmers take their potato seeds to Svalbard
The story of a spiritual journey made by Quechua farmers bringing their cherished potato seeds from the Potato Park, in the high Andes of Peru, to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on a remote island halfway between Norway and the North Pole, has been documented in a film.
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
New film reports on Mountain Agriculture Policy Dialogue
TV news reports on the Policy Dialogue organised by IIED and Lok Chetna Manch in West Bengal, India
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
Film shows diverse food heritage of Thailand's Karen hill tribes
The film “The Making of Rotational Farming” shows the extraordinary diversity of food produced by just one community
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
Our survey found broad support for a labelling scheme for biocultural heritage-based products. Now we need to get a pilot project off the ground.
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
Mountain communities call for stronger action to counter climate change
As half of the world's population relies on mountains for their water, 18 indigenous mountain communities call for support to strengthen traditional natural resource management systems.
Peak changes: Article on the INMIP workshop in Tajikistan
Stockholm Resilience Centre speaks to Pernilla Malmer about a "walking workshop" of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) in Tajikistan, September 2015, and the importance of knowledge exchange for revitalising communities' biocultural heritage and developing tools for sustainable development in the face of climate change.
TWN Info: Some Important Provisions in China’s Revised Seed Law
New film documents indigenous mountain community network
This 30 minute film, produced by indigenous filmmakers in Taiwan, documents the emergence of a new global indigenous network - the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) - at a ‘walking workshop’ in Bhutan in May-June 2014. The network aims to strengthen the capacity of indigenous mountain communities to confront climate change through exchange of indigenous knowledge and seeds, and strengthening biocultural heritage and indigenous farming systems.
The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion
The Paris Agreement commits governments to climate action. To deliver this agenda successfully, they must engage with all sectors of society, including indigenous peoples, and recognise traditional knowledge.
COP 21: Indigenous spiritual and cultural values to guide climate change adaptation
Respect for the spiritual values and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples is a key component in the response to climate change, as was today asserted by an agreement between the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) of Union Theological Seminary, the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University, and the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Assessments Initiative (IPBCCA) of Asociacion ANDES.
Mountain communities being devastated by extreme climate impacts
Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
Climate Change and Mountain Communities Meeting
This week, from 11-18th September, indigenous mountain farmers from 20 communities in 10 countries are meeting in Tajikistan to assess the impacts of climate change and identify responses needed.
Brazil's first community protocol: the Bailique experience
A remote community in the Amazon has agreed Brazil's first community protocol, giving them an equal voice in future discussions about natural resource use.