Agroecology enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly threatened by global warming and food insecurity, while contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Sweetgrass Method is a culturally responsive approach to mental health for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth and serves as a process to communicate, collaborate, and continue ongoing supports. The Sweetgrass Method is applied in practice as an approach that encourages culturally responsive methods and culturally sensitive therapies as significant approaches.

These 12 case studies demonstrate how our ‘tech plus people’ approach is supporting bottom-up, village-level climate resilience planning that includes the most marginalised groups. Together, these examples offer emerging lessons and trends that can inform plans to scale up climate tech in India and beyond.

The overarching goal of this empirical project is to train teachers to use culturally relevant modules in STEM subjects in high need schools.

This article presents how an admixture of humans first arrived in the western world during the last Ice Age and spread throughout both continents, developing more complex cultures and agriculture, then civilizations. The arrival of Columbus began colonization by white European countries, justified by bringing the indigenous population Christianity and European civilization.

This study aimed to collect data on the use of medicinal plants (MPs) for humans and veterinary practices and at listing plant species with potential anthelmintic properties to select some plant species for further studies following three criteria (availability, originality and popularity).

The review includes recommendations for various actors to support Indigenous Peoples in their self-determined economic development and towards the sustainable marketization of their products. The review also provides guidelines for Indigenous Peoples willing to engage in such initiatve. Those are applicable to different contexts on the ground, and include good practices, and measures to mitigate risks.

Traditional and indigenous knowledges offer a lens through which we can understand risk reduction and engagement better, enrich resilience building efforts and develop empowering solutions. Many sources of traditional knowledge are based on cognitive schemes that favour careful and integrative observation and adaptive learning over generations; this often goes hand in hand with a more holistic and ecologically viable approach, leading towards sustainable, democratic and inclusive DRR, response and recovery.

The study is the first quantitative report on the ethnomedicinal plants used by the local tribes of this region.

This multidisciplinary book develops a synthesis of traditional ecological knowledge in the Caucasus region in Georgia – a hotspot of natural and cultural diversity.