First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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Floating gardens in Bangladesh: a means to rebuild lives after devastating flood
<p>Floating gardening, a form of hydroponics using aquatic plants as the medium, is a traditional cultivation system in southern Bangladesh practiced for year-rouund seedling and vegetable production.
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Prediction of rainfall variation through flowering phenology of night-flowering jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L.; Verbenaceae) in Tripura
<p>Folk people of Tripura, a small state of Northeast India, rely on their own traditional knowledge of phenological indicators for predicting the weather, to help plan their agroforestry activities and
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Forest dwellers get tough duty, but no right
<p>C. K. Chandramohan DEHRA DUN: The Uttarakhand Government's decision to form a special Corbett tiger protection force with 30 per cent reservation for Van Gujjars and other forest dwellers has been described as a good step, but it violates the fundamental right to a full-time job and security to the “technically skilled” forest dwellers.
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Stagnant health technologies in Africa
In Madina village, outside Accra, Ghana, children tease each other about whose urine has a redder color. Apart from being strikingly thin, they look healthy. Yet they could be affected by Schistosoma haematobium,
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Good practices in water security: ideas for praxis
<p>This report captures a range of cost effective and sustainable community-led solutions to meet the challenge of water scarcity in the Marwar region of Rajasthan.</p>
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Module on documenting womens knowledge in agriculture
<p>This module on Women's Knowledge in Agriculture serves as guide in documenting women's indigenous and traditional knowledge, roles and practices in crop production, post-harvest processing and livestock keeping.
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"We'ill continue with our observations"
<p>Local knowledge systems are always developing, especially in times of change.<br /> The meteorological effects of El Niño, and climate change in general, motivated farmers and researchers in Indonesia to set up a close learning partnership. Working together, and observing the rains in detail, provided new information which helped the farmers adapt their agricultural strategies.
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Sandwiched strategies of survival in Bastar
<p>Due to frequent newspaper reports about violence in Bastar region due to conflicts between leftist extremists and state agencies, there was a palpable fear in the air. Some of the older shodhyatris were deterred by the incidents which happened only a few days before the commencement of the yatra.
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International regime on access and benefit sharing: Where are we now?
<p>Limitations of the national law in remedying biopiracy led to the negotiations on an international regime in Access and Benefi Sharing. The deliberations were stuck for a long time due to the extreme divergent views of the developed countries on the one hand and of the biodiversity rich developing countries on the other.
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Community protocols and access and benefit sharing
<p>The adoption of Nagoya Protocol was a landmark event in the history of Convention on Biological Diversity. This article examines the promises and potentials of the Protocol for indigenous peoples and local communities in ight of previous experiences in Access and Benefit Sharing framework. </p>