In this document, ‘farmers’ includes those who produce and/or use seeds in both industrial and cultural seed systems in line with Article 9 on Farmers’ Rights in the Seed Treaty. The custodians of cultural seed systems are referred to as ‘indigenous peoples and peasants’, and more broadly also include smallholders, artisanal fisherfolk, pastoralists, forest dwellers, women and all the communities that produce food in agroecological ways and contribute to maintaining biodiversity.

This project aims to provide a ‘next-generation’ training program that builds on the work that has gone before and leads to increasing levels of competence and confidence and, in its turn, resilience for their communities. The project is a direct response to north Australian stakeholder concerns about existing training; that it is inadequate for their needs.

The review includes recommendations for various actors to support Indigenous Peoples in their self-determined economic development and towards the sustainable marketization of their products. The review also provides guidelines for Indigenous Peoples willing to engage in such initiatve. Those are applicable to different contexts on the ground, and include good practices, and measures to mitigate risks.

The IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services emphasizes that “At least a quarter of the global land area is traditionally owned, managed, used or occupied by indigenous peoples. These areas include approximately 35 per cent of the area that is formally protected and approximately 35 per cent of all remaining terrestrial areas with very low intervention”.

Traditional and indigenous knowledges offer a lens through which we can understand risk reduction and engagement better, enrich resilience building efforts and develop empowering solutions. Many sources of traditional knowledge are based on cognitive schemes that favour careful and integrative observation and adaptive learning over generations; this often goes hand in hand with a more holistic and ecologically viable approach, leading towards sustainable, democratic and inclusive DRR, response and recovery.

The report describes ongoing impacts on Arctic livelihoods through the voices of Arctic residents. It represents a contribution to a broader call for mobilising all relevant knowledge about Arctic environmental change and resilience, which impact not only Arctic inhabitants but also all populations on the planet.Furthermore, the report explores the interplay of traditional knowledge with scientific research practices, highlighting the key essential conditions found in successful cases of collaboration between traditional knowledge-holders and scientists.

We train farmers how they can be self-reliant, how to keep the environment healthy, and how our body will be healthy by eating traditional varieties, how to grow crops organically, free from chemicals.

IFM is a site-specific, whole farm approach that blends the best of modern technology and traditional methods, providing a framework to support farmers with continuous improvement.

This technique is great in dry, hot climate – there’s no water wastage through run-off and evaporation, the water goes exactly where it’s needed, and the risk of fungal issues on foliage is significantly reduced due to the foliage not being wet during a watering. The burying of the olla in the soil also promotes deeper roots systems that are better able to manage fluctuations in heat.

Sayad village is one of the most ancient settlements nestled on the Caspian Sea coast of Azerbaijan’s Khachmaz district. It’s long been famous for its numerous varieties of succulent tomatoes thanks to the farmers’ careful cultivation of the crop and the sunny climate.