The book examines criminal sentencing courts’ changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples’ identity, culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples, but referring also to the Canadian and New Zealand experiences, it critically analyzes how the judiciary have interpreted Indigenous difference.

This briefing paper highlights the specific conditions of indigenous women, who comprise a major segment of indigenous communities where development projects are being implemented in India, Indonesia and Cambodia.

The book is a unique text examining the role of indigenous societies in tourism and how they interact within the tourism nexus. It focuses on the active role that indigenous peoples take in the industry, and uses international case studies and experiences to provide a global context to illustrate best practice and aid comparison.

The project helped promote partnerships with the main actors – grass-roots, national and global – who deal directly with many of the most critical indigenous peoples’ issues. It also helped capitalize on indigenous peoples’ knowledge and expertise in matters such as natural resources management, biodiversity and climate change.

Biological diversity is evidence for chemical diversity. Secondary metabolites are adaptive traits, similar within members of a taxon and occasionally also between taxa exposed to similar ecological selection pressures.

The present study indicated that the herbal healers have a fair knowledge and a considerable number of their formulations are new records.

This study discusses with the advanced technology in IK usage and preservation empowers users to improve on pre-existing solutions to a problem, achieve a goal, and most of all improve on the standards of living. IK is a preferred mode used at the local levels by communities as more tacit than explicit.

This study was undertaken in a tribal watershed of Koraput district to prioritize the commonly grown crops based on RWUE (Rain Water Use Efficiency) and their comparative performance during water stress condition. Results showed that vegetable crops have higher RWUE than cereals and pulses.

Ecological Farming provides a balanced approach between optimising ecosystem services and food production.Ecological Farming aims to protect water resources, and use them more effectively, through better and more efficient irrigation and choosing appropriate crops.

The present review aims to move policy attention beyond the generalized, and perhaps limited, perception of women as fish processors and marketers and in this way enhance their participation in fisheries resource management and decision-making. The study describes the different ways women have access to fish in small-scale fisheries: as primary users (when they fish by themselves or they finance fishery operations), secondary users (when they access fish through kinship or other close relationships), and tertiary users (when they use capital to buy fish directly from fishers or traders).