Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in development all over the world. For centuries, various disciplines ranging from medicine to biodiversity conservation have ...
"My registered name is Hemerson Dantas dos Santos, but you can add ‘Pataxó Hãhãhãi’ at the end, which is the Indigenous people I belong to." This is how the interview began, conducted by Medscape’s ...
Traditional Indigenous knowledge, also called traditional ecological knowledge or traditional knowledge, is compiled by tribes according to their distinct culture and generally is transmitted orally ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Knowledge of Caribbean ethnobotany has so far been limited and little comprehensive island- or region-wide inventories of Caribbean traditional ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Several years ago, I took a solo trip to the Huánuco region of the central Peruvian Amazon. After traveling five hours from the nearest town by car ...
RANCHI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said the state should move beyond being known only for its mineral wealth and transform into a knowledg ...
Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. The ...
Medical researchers have been challenged to unlock the country's vast wealth of traditional medicinal knowledge through ...
Indigenous knowledge of agricultural practices can be preserved using digital tools. Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty Images Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in ...