With the introduction of imported, hybrid crops, many farmers across Nepal have stopped growing indigenous crops altogether. Agriculturalist Kushal Poudel is hoping to change that by reintroducing native crops through age-old farming techniques.

Analysing how Indigenous Peoples come to be identifiable as bearers of human rights, this book considers how individuals and communities claim the right of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as Indigenous peoples.

In this paper, FAO shares experiences and proposes actions to advance towards the realisation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights to land, territories and resources, urging the countries to protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights as an avenue to achieve the SDG 16.

Extensive livestock raising, slash and burn agriculture and uncontrolled demand for wood fuel has have led to widespread environmental degradation of its unique Caatinga biodiversity.

The study recounts the Garo community’s traditional knowledge of medicinal plants, which they employ in some secluded enclaves of Northeast India. The study emphasizes the value of ethnobotanical research and the importance of documenting traditional wisdom related to therapeutic plant consumption.

Research partnerships with Indigenous communities are relationships with cultural expectations of responsibility, relevance, and respect for Indigenous knowledge, goals, and aspirations. Indigenous communities have been seeking access to and ownership, control, and possession of research in their communities ever since “researchers” came to their lands (Brant Castellano, 2004; Wilson, 2008)

This paper studies shows the deliberation about indigenous peoples (of India) and their natural conservation practices through the lens of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

The study shows that the indigenous ecological knowledge and behaviour of the tribal people towards nature is generally based on sustainability, productivity and optimum balanced utilization of available land and other natural resource.

The present study concentrates on the traditional healers and medicines in Shillong, Meghalaya and its continuity in contemporary Meghalaya. Traditional and tribal medicines still constitute the most important source of healing for much of the world's population, especially for those living in areas away from the urban centre .It is still practiced in all kinds of societies and embodies the use of native plants, and medicinal oils as well as using the principle of indigenous knowledge, philosophy, and spirituality

This working paper presents a transformative vision of young people’s engagement in the restoration agenda at multiple scales.