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

Indigenous knowledge systems are bodies of knowledge that were developed and used by local communities for centuries. They shape how people understand their environment, solve problems, and live ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Book review: Indigenous voices reflect on knowledge and value systems

Lara A. Jacobs, editor; Oregon State University Press, 2025; 440 pages; $39.95. In recent years, in Alaska and elsewhere, Indigenous knowledge has found respect and inclusion in scientific research ...
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 ...
Washington Examiner

Government officials turned to ‘indigenous knowledge’ to combat Californian wildfires

Federal and state officials turned toward “’indigenous knowledge,” also known as “traditional ecological knowledge,” to help California better prepare for wildfires prior to the recent blazes in Los ...
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 ...
The Conversation

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

Lecturer and Research Fellow: Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies in the Faculty of Applied Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Dr. Benett Siyabonga Madonsela received ...