This Access and Benefit Sharing Policy is developed to guide access to Bhutan’s genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their research and commercial utilization. It will also enable national capacity-building and contribute to the vision outlined in Bhutan 2020- A Vision for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness.

This article presents a narrative synthesis that identifies and compares methodologies used in the evaluation of traditional healing practices. In considering the aim(s), suitability, and validity of each approach, contributions can be made to the interpretation of research findings for maximum receptivity to learnings brought to light in a meeting ground between two distinct worldviews (Popay et al., 2006).

This study determined the adaptation and coping strategies adopted by farmers under yam- and cassava based farming systems in Ebonyi and Enugu States in Nigeria’s derived savannah agro-ecological zone. The results of the study revealed that the main outcomes of climate change were flooding, decline in crop yields, food price increases, and food shortages/insecurity.

This book is the first in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The edited volumes contain select papers presented in a series of workshop, national and international seminars organised by the institute.

This study evaluated the phytochemical and antimicrobial activities and also quantified bioactive nucleoside using high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) of five extracts of Indian Himalayan Cordyceps sinensis prepared with different solvents employing accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) technique.

This peer reviewed Journal was created in response to community requests for information about research that has been conducted among their people. In addition, articles may be summaries of research that have already been published so we can share what has been completed with the communities.

In this study, alcoholic extract of seven plants from Tanhat protected area, Saudi Arabian, were studied for their antioxidant properties.

The study discusses the traditional knowledge based fishing technology, Lipum practiced by the Adi and Galo tribes of the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

This event has also served the purpose of complying with the 2014 recommendation from the UNPFII for FAO to organize with Indigenous Peoples a meeting on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) .

A total of 23 species of herbal plants have been identified which were used either alone or in combination as traditional remedies for 24 different conditions/ diseases in livestock including important conditions like hoof infection, liver disorder and enteritis to emergency conditions like tympany/ bloat and hemorrhage.