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Giving Intangibles Real Value | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025

2025

Author(s): World Economic Forum

The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum aims to provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.

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Tribal Treasures: Preserving Legacy and Driving Economy

2025

Author(s): NABARD

A panel discussion on "Tribal Treasures: Preserving Legacy and Driving Economy" on 7 January 2025. The discussion covered the avenues for financial access to support the development of traditional tribal products, barriers in market linkages for tribal products, among other aspects.

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The panel discussion explored indigenous knowledge systems and practices of communities across the world and India, with a special focus on the North Eastern Region and Nagaland.

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How to increase the nutritional value of beans for pig and poultry diets.

2023

Author(s): Innovative Farmers

With the support of the OK-Net EcoFeed project this field lab has been investigating ways of reducing pig and poultry farmer's reliance on imported protein for animal feed.

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Kinship and Indigeneity Across Cultures and Time

2023

Author(s): Johnston LJ , Wynne A

This talk is a part of the Faith and Moral Courage series, where they are exploring how they can reconnect people with their faith or deepest values, so they can face many crises with courage. This project is funded by Fetzer.

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What is Traditional Knowledge?

2023

Author(s): United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Traditional Knowledge refers to the knowledge,innovations and practices of indigenous and local peoples around the world.It is founded and maintained by communities and can be informed by experience gained over millennia transmitted orally in stories,songs and folklore and through building techniques,agricultural methods, and more. It help communities thrive and build critical capacity in challenging physical environments.

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Honoring Indigenous Knowledge

2023

Author(s): Connor R, Tiokasin G.

For thousands of years indigenous people have been passing their unique knowledge and connections with the land to younger generations through a variety of mediums, such as storytelling, music, art and language. The sharing of knowledge is not always linear (or prompt) and requires a level of active listening in even the most organic conversations. Join a conversation with Connor Ryan (Proud Hunkpapa Lakota & Passionate Skier) and Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Founder, Host & Executive Producer of “First Voices Radio”) as they navigate indigenous knowledge, discuss how we all can best honor it, and ensure the transfer continues for generations to come.

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Collecting traditional varieties

2023

Author(s): Agro-Insight

Local varieties often cope better with drought and other stresses, and outperform modern varieties when grown under ecological conditions.

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Seeing the life in the soil.

2023

Author(s): Agro-Insight, Access Agriculture

When many living things are found in the soil, it means that the soil has life, because these little creatures help to decompose organic matter, make nutrients available to plants, and make the soil spongier.

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AGROMIX, Agroforestry in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

2023

Author(s): AGROMIX Project

The AGROMIX project promotes the transition towards a resilient and efficient land use in Europe, providing agroecological solutions for farm and land management. The project intends to collaborate with farmers and other relevant actors to find common solutions. Using agroforestry to provide environmental services was another overriding theme during the field visit.