Traditional Knowledge Bulletin |
- This week in review … UNEP showcases traditional methods of preserving food
- This week in review … UNDP-UNESCO project focuses on cultural activity for income generation
- This week in review … UEBT launches practical guide on equitable benefit-sharing
- Meeting prep: Paris annual biodiversity conference: biodiversity and traditional knowledge
- This week in review … Study examines indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation in Australia
This week in review … UNEP showcases traditional methods of preserving food Posted: 29 May 2013 04:46 AM PDT Traditional Cultures Can Show Wasteful World How to Preserve Food NAIROBI, KENYA: From condensing the meat of whole cow to the size of a human fist, to preserving seabirds in sealskins, there are hundreds of ways in which traditional cultures can teach the wasteful developed world how to preserve and conserve one of our most-precious yet most-squandered resources: food. Each year, an estimated one third of all food produced – an astonishing 1.3 billion tonnes, worth around US$1 trillion – ends up rotting in the bins of consumers and retailers or spoiling due to poor transportation and harvesting practices. World Environment Day 2013, whose global host is the government and people of Mongolia, is focused on the new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) campaign "Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint," which is aimed at slashing this wastage. As part of the celebrations, UNEP asked people to submit examples of traditional ways in which food is preserved. The ways that indigenous peoples create preserved dishes are as many and varied as the cultures and food sources that form the basis of the recipes. Read the release … Visit the Think.Eat.Save website … Visit the UNEP webpage on traditional food preservation techniques … |
This week in review … UNDP-UNESCO project focuses on cultural activity for income generation Posted: 29 May 2013 04:42 AM PDT Ethiopian families use cultural crafts to improve livelihoods NEW YORK, USA: Genet Tesfaye is a young, married mother of one living in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa. A potter by trade, Genet has been contributing more and more to her family's income through her craft. Ethiopia has a diverse and rich cultural heritage, and a joint UNDP-UNESCO project is taking advantage of that heritage to help support the country's fight against poverty. As part of that project, Genet and other women in a cooperative were trained to improve their skills. The training provided to Genet and the women in her cooperative is part of a three-year programme that has been active in six regions of the country, with more than 100,000 beneficiaries. The programme has contributed to helping communities use and build on their culture to preserve their heritage while simultaneously learning new skills to increase their income. Read the release … |
This week in review … UEBT launches practical guide on equitable benefit-sharing Posted: 29 May 2013 04:39 AM PDT UEBT launches practical guide on equitable benefit sharing AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS: Titled "Fair and equitable benefit sharing: manual for the assessment of policies and practices along natural ingredient supply chains" this guide produced by the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) provides information on putting in practice benefit sharing in the sourcing of natural ingredients, in line with the principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol. It explains the objective, terminology and practical implications of benefit-sharing requirements for companies and other organizations working with natural ingredients. It also outlines a participatory process to assess policies and practices on benefit-sharing, and identify strengths and weaknesses. Read the release … Download the guide [pdf] … |
Meeting prep: Paris annual biodiversity conference: biodiversity and traditional knowledge Posted: 29 May 2013 04:37 AM PDT Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: how can they be protected? Organized by IDDRI and the Fondation d'enterprise Hermès, in collaboration with the National Library of France, this conference will feature leading scholars and practitioners in the field, who will present and review key efforts aiming at protecting biocultural heritage and traditional knowledge, and will provide a critical assessment of the tools that can be used to improve the livelihood of indigenous peoples and local communities, while also conserving biodiversity. Further information … |
This week in review … Study examines indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation in Australia Posted: 29 May 2013 04:35 AM PDT Indigenous knowledge offered for climate change adaptation KIMBERLEY, AUSTRALIA: Researchers have been studying traditional Indigenous knowledge of ecology and weather with the Mirriwoong people of the Ord Valley and Keep River, in order to better manage the effects of climate change. A recently published paper gives the example of the beginning of the Mirriwoong wet season nyinggiyi-mageny known as barrawoondang (time of strong wind, thunder, lightning and rain). Weather conditions are described as ngoomelng birrga ginayinjaloorr-gerring (gathering of rain clouds). One of the traditional indicators that this season is commencing is the loud calling of the Goorrawoorrang or Channel-billed Cuckoos (Scythrops novaehollandiae). The study demonstrates how indigenous groups' accumulate detailed baseline information about their environment to guide their resource use and management, and develop worldviews and cultural values associated with this knowledge. Read the article … Read the abstract of the study The role of culture and traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation: insights from East Kimberley, Australia, by Sonia Leonard et al … |
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