This guide shows how a framework can be developed as part of an overall IP strategy, by improving existing mechanisms or by creating new ones. However, each country will need to consider the options that work best for it and the nature of the TK and TCEs for which protection is desired.

The paper explore the preparation of traditional food called "Numsing", a fish product developed by the Mising community of Assam. The product is the outcome of a wonderful traditional technology which combines three well established food processing techniques –drying, smoking and fermentation and also a compatible means of preserving fish for scares-fish seasons as a partial solution to protein malnutrition.

This study highlights the complex trade-offs and dependencies that beset attempts to secure an energy system that performs well across all key objectives. Different countries are of course variously endowed with natural resources and are pursuing economic development from very different starting places.

This working paper synthesizes and analyzes the characteristics of the indigenous sheep production and breeding strategies and practices of four sheep farming communities located in pastoral (Amibara), sub-alpine sheep-barley (Menz), perennial crop-livestock (Bonga), and cereal-livestock (Horro) production systems.

This study is based on the traditional uses of medicinal plants, their ecological status and importance of these plants in the largest protected area of Garhwal Himalaya.

The ethnic tribal population have extensive ethnomycological knowledge based on which they discretely collect and sell the edible macrofungi. The study observed considerable diversity among the edible macro-fungal species sold in the local markets.

This case study shows multiple values of traditional tea forests have been thoroughly assessed and rediscovered through a process of multi-stakeholder learning.

Based on an extensive review of relevant information and literature, this technical paper presents a review of best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and assessing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.

The objective of this guide (the “Guide”) is to help business understand, respect, and support the rights of indigenous peoples by illustrating how these rights are relevant to business activities

The present paper is based on the data collected on traditional health practice as well as use of indigenous medicine and religious practices among the Mishings of Golaghat district. The study was conducted in two villages namely, Baghedhara and Namtemera, situated in two opposite directions in the district. The two villages are entirely inhabited by the Mishing people