The Conversation

Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this

Margaret Raven receives funding from Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with NSW Government as a member of an Indigenous Advisory Group and a grant to examine co-governance. Daniel ...
Yahoo

Indigenous knowledge systems can be useful tools in the G20’s climate change kit

What are Indigenous knowledge systems? Indigenous knowledge systems are sets of knowledge that were developed long ago and passed down through the generations in various ways, including through ...
Mongabay

Indigenous knowledge & agroecology must be at the center of food system transformation (commentary)

As the world gathers this week in Addis Ababa for the second stocktake of the U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4), the urgency of transforming food systems into more resilient, sustainable and ...
Juneau Empire

Woven Peoples and Place: Bridging knowledge systems

I am a scholar in a system that was not meant for people like me. During my graduate studies, I collaborated directly with Tribal governments, interweaving knowledge systems for the benefit of the ...
Mongabay

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Rangelands and the pastoralists who rely on them are an overlooked and understudied part of global conservation. Tunga Ulambayar, country director for the Zoological Society of London’s Mongolia ...