This brief identifies the main intellectual property challenges faced by organizers of arts festivals and outlines some practical elements of an effective intellectual property management strategy.

Amongst the Dimasa tribe in Assam, their popular alcoholic beverage is a traditional rice wine named Judima. This paper is a case study of Judima as a potential GI and includes step by step procedure for GI registration, the hurdles which might pose in the process and how it could be overcome.

The publication gives a brief outline of the integrated approach and the inter-linkages of the different religions; of religion, culture and the environment; and of the environment and socioeconomic dimensions of sustainable development.

A brief summary of the taxonomy, traditional uses of the plant/plant parts and products, based on extensive field observation from different parts of Assam has been documented in the present paper.

This paper entails information related to various initiatives, programs, plans and India’s progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 18 of the Strategic Plan of Biodiversity 2020 and discusses meaningful integration of TK of indigenous and local communities into Biodiversity Conservation.

The present study focuses on traditional community managed water conveyance, management and conservation practices in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir which has been followed by the farming communities through locally devised traditionally inherited technology using local material with least use of external inputs.

The present study documents the dental caries preventing medicinal plants used by them and attempts to validate their claim.

This brief summarizes the legal, policy and operational issues that need to be considered in developing a national strategy for the intellectual property protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, also known as folklore.

Studies have been conducted on the traditional uses of plants for various purposes.

The present study attempts to document various, sophisticated methods deployed by local communities to forecast floods and heavy rainfall in the Gandaki River basin. It makes a point that strengthening such local knowledge systems will effectively counterbalance the pitfalls of centralized and mechanized early flood warning systems as much as ensure their recognition and continuation.