by Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj, Somrak Chaisingkananont, Vithaya Chaidee, and Lukas Husa | Feb 18, 2025 | Commentary & Blog
Arguably, indigenous knowledge offers valuable insights and practices that can enhance climate change adaptation and mitigation. Integrating these practices with modern scientific methods can lead to more holistic, sustainable, and culturally appropriate solutions to...
by Lukas Husa | Dec 17, 2024 | Commentary & Blog
The ethnic groups of the chao lay or ‘sea people’ living in the border regions between Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia are among the several indigenous and ethnic minority groups that will be affected by man-made climate change the heaviest. However, unlike the...
by Magdalena Berger | Oct 15, 2024 | Commentary & Blog
The Nyangatom, a small agro-pastoralist community stretched between in border areas of South Sudan and Ethiopia, will be heavily affected by climate change. However, it is their indigenous knowledge systems that might help them adapt to these challenges. A Nyangatom...
by Simon Bunchuay-Peth | Sep 26, 2024 | Commentary & Blog
In the turquoise waters of the Andaman Archipelago live the Moken, a semi-nomadic indigenous community which for generations, has lived on their kabangs, well designed boats housing whole families, moving with the tides and following the rhythms of the ocean and the...
