This briefing note explores the value of Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge in helping communities forecast weather and climate, identify and manage changes in seasons and weather, and develop responses to climatic variability and climate change.

This Evaluation Insight Note builds on Independent Evaluation Group evidence to identify lessons for working with Indigenous peoples who live in poverty.

The brief highlights the initiative of The Institute of Natural Medicine and Complementary Therapies in reviving traditional ancestral medicine among Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants in Nicaragua.

This paper compares two approaches to measuring subnational ethnolinguistic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa, one based on censuses and large-scale population surveys and the other relying on the use of geographic information systems (GIS).

This report highlights the outcome of the Fourth ASL Conference held from November 17-18, 2021. ASL works to establish and strengthen networks of people and institutions to share ideas, lessons learned and innovations, accelerate learning, and generate/systematize/socialize knowledge at various levels and for diverse audiences. The ASL Annual Conference is designed to be the largest gathering of the ASL community.

Based on a randomized controlled trial, this study assesses the effects of ‘farmer-to-farmer’ extension and a video intervention on adoption of a complex technology package among 2,382 smallholders in Ethiopia.

This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15-17 June 2011, discusses a large range of experiences and approaches to AKS explores how to foster development and adoption of innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges. The conference considered developments in institutional frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, regulatory frameworks conducive to innovation, the adoption of innovations and technology transfers, and the responsiveness of AKS to broader policy objectives.

This paper provides an overview of the project undertaken in Cordillera region in the northern most part of the Philippines to determine the useful plants and document the traditional knowledge that are associated with the useful plants.

The paper presents a decolonial and interdisciplinary framework for action-research on Indigenous food systems past and present, from farm to plate, drawing on the virtual workshops, Andean decolonising methods and historical approaches. It concludes that decolonising action-research, led by Indigenous Peoples, is urgently needed to reverse the rapid loss of food-related biocultural heritage.

This research shows that, across different Indigenous cultures, TK enshrines core values of balance, reciprocity and solidarity with nature and in society that provide flexible principles for sustainable and equitable development. These can be strengthened as the basis for community owned, equitable and self-sustaining conservation and development initiatives, such as biocultural heritage territories.