This book addresses the critical issues that are threatening the self-determination, land, resources, and cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples.

This policy brief highlights the traditional agricultural practices that have been followed in different parts of India, including states such as Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.

The handbook is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the importance of knowledge and value systems at the community level and ways indigenous people utilize this information.

This report on Indigenous Peoples (IP) draws on the main emerging lessons from its caseload over 22 years. The study highlights areas where continued improvements can enhance the World Bank’s and its member countries’ approach to ensuring that Indigenous Peoples fully benefit from Bank projects. Nineteen Panel cases have involved Indigenous Peoples’ issues.

This working paper examines the development of regional socioeconomic scenarios for West Africa’s development, agriculture, food security and climate impacts. We present four globally consistent regional scenarios framed and outlined by regional experts who crafted narratives and determined key drivers of change.

This paper intends to contribute to the evolving thinking about the interface between the right to social protection and the right to adequate food, and to advocate for the need for legal underpinnings.

In most developing countries, increasing agricultural productivity is the overarching goal of policy makers and their development partners. Especially for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries where half of the population lives in poverty, technological changes in the agricultural sector are often considered as one of the key pathways for fighting food insecurity, spurring economic growth, overcoming extreme poverty, and improving populations’ wellbeing.

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.

Peru has experienced substantial changes in recent years, especially in its economy. As from the 1990s, Peru has been able to recover from the critical situation of the 1980s, engaging in a series...

The present study carried out during April to September 2010 in Erzincan (Turkey) by interviewing medicinal plant holders and the people to determine the most used medicinal plants reveals.