Key messages
- Careful integration of indigenous and local knowledge in Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is at the heart of successful FLR initiatives.
- Indigenous and local knowledge differs across cultures and places, and within communities based on gender, age, and other factors of social differentiation.
- To successfully incorporate indigenous and local knowledge in FLR planning and implementation, practitioners and policy makers should: 1) recognize the legitimacy and value of indigenous and local knowledge; 2) ensure diverse knowledge holders have equal voice and that their strategic interests are addressed; and 3) ensure that mobilizing indigenous and local knowledge generates culturally-desirable incentives and benefits to local and indigenous knowledge holders, rather than being an extractive exercise.
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Publication year
2018
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
indigenous knowledge, ecological restoration
Funders
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)
