This review stresses upon the high nutritive values and health benefits of bamboo shoots and their usage as important traditional foods in Northeast India.

This study is about documenting the diversity of freshwater molluscs sold, quantity, location of harvest, associated traditional knowledge and uses among different tribal communities of Northeast India. Eighteen species of freshwater molluscs belonging to five families and six genera were recorded from this study.

The objective of this study was to see if any of the selected 50 plants of traditional medicine in India are also used, and if so, how, among the indigenous societies of Africa, China, West Indies and Latin America. The analysis was done for seven diseases namely malaria, leprosy, jaundice, diabetes, fertility, cardiac and skin diseases.

The paper is based upon the extensive field studies, discussions held with local populace conducted in different phases for use of the traditional disaster mitigation and medicinal plants practices of the people during disaster in the remote study area. The paper discusses the relevance of the various traditional disaster mitigation practices of the region.

This paper discussed the comparison of traditional knowledge legal protection in several countries, such as Bangladesh, Australia and Indonesia. The research method used in this paper uses normative juridical.

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), or adaptive empirical knowledge system, is the source of knowledge about ecosystems, species, a practice held by the indigenous community whose way of life intimately relates to natural resources. Considered as a biodiversity hotspot of the world, the North East (NE) part of India is mainly inhabited by different indigenous communities.

The paper documents some of the collective wealth of indigenous knowledge related to agricultural practices, including land preparation/ manuring/ soil treatment, cropping systems, input management, water resource management and utilization, and soil and water conservation practices, used especially by tribal farmers of Jharkhand, India.

This study shows that accuracy of targeting the relevant species for knowledge co-production could be improved through specific understanding of the local culture,provided by experts who study traditional zoological knowledge and by local knowledge holders themselves.

Present study is to determine the potential public health risk of climate change parameters (temperature and precipitation) based on its effect on surface drinking water quality of Narmada River Basin. This study was performed by past data collection and multiple linear regression based modeling. The inter-region and inter-district variation was observed in the study.

The paper provides information on the indigenous therapeutic application and other traditional uses of 9 plant species that are used by the natives of Himachal Pradesh.