Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Practices and skills to reduce community vulnerability and cope with hazards, accumulated over many years of living in a specific environment and passed down from one generation to another.

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This publication is based on a selection of the many stories and experiences from Cordaid partners in community managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR) and climate change adaptation and includes details of the global declaration on CMDRR and climate

Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid
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After travelling around Kenya and the Philippines, Jessica Mercer a disaster risk reduction adviser to CAFOD writes about the similarities in the challenges communities, in those countries faced, including drought, conflict, floods and general environmental degradation...

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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Traditional Pacific know-how in building design could become one of the most effective ways for Pacific Islanders to withstand the impacts of climate change according to one of the winners of the 2009 Development Marketplace – Tafaoimalo (Loudeen) Parsons...

World Bank, the
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In Disasters, in press:

This paper presents a framework demonstrating how relevant indigenous and scientific knowledge may be integrated to reduce a community's vulnerability to environmental hazards, using a participatory approach and focusing on small

Overseas Development Institute
Wiley-Blackwell
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First Peoples Worldwide is awarding three $5,000 grants for videos documenting indigenous communities using traditional knowledge to adapt to, or mitigate the impacts of climate change on their lands and waterways...

First Peoples Worldwide
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In the 1980s a group of farmers in the West African country of Burkina Faso decided to fight back against years of drought by resuscitating their barren rock-hard land to grow more food than only what they needed to survive...

The New Humanitarian
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The ScienceDaily reports on the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change and its agenda to discuss mitigation and adaptation policies inclusive of indigenous peoples...

ScienceDaily
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This policy note aims to provide a directional path for mainstreaming indigenous knowledge in disaster risk reduction by national authorities and ministries of disaster management and education, institutions of higher education in disaster management, and

European Union
Sustainable Environmental and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
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