This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America.

The report highlights the intensification of major drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition: conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks, combined with growing inequalities. The issue at stake is not whether adversities will continue to occur or not, but how we must take bolder action to build resilience against future shocks.

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 paper revealed the ethnomedicinal study conducted in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district between 2016 and 2019 uncovered 14 indigenous plant species, including Curcuma longa and Mimosa pudica, employed by Traditional Health Practitioners to heal oral diseases.

This study highlights how IK is increasingly incorporated in research programs, enhancing understanding of – and contributing novel insight into – ecology and evolution, as well as physiology and applied ecology (that is, management).

The book focuses on how communication practices collide with organizational frameworks, customary practices, livelihoods, and landscape. In so doing, the authors explore the meanings of environmental communication, pushing beyond environmental advocacy rhetoric to emphasize stronger anthropological engagement within communities to achieve more impactful environmental communication practice.

Forecasting and early warning are considered the most effective measures to save lives and reduce the damage from flash floods. In the People’s Republic of China, an ADB project combines tradition and technology to prevent flash flood-induced disasters. Part 2 of this video series shows how community-based disaster response builds on high-tech monitoring to ensure collaboration and accountability among citizens.

This book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education.

The objective of this book is to enhance the discussion on the resilience of seed systems by moving beyond the prevailing binary understanding of seed governance, which typically simplifies it as traditional versus modern, subsistence versus commercial, or local versus global.

This paper aims to facilitate reflection on possibilities for capturing the practice of the traditional occupations of indigenous and tribal peoples in labour statistics as a means to understand and monitor related trends and build evidence for public policymaking.