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From 2012-17 IIED worked with partners in China, India, Kenya and Peru to revitalise traditional knowledge-based – or 'biocultural' – innovation systems of smallholder farmers in order to strengthen food security in the face of climate change.
Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: implications of customary laws and practices
This participatory action-research project in China, India, Kenya, Panama and Peru (2004-09) developed the concept of collective biocultural heritage as its common framework for research.