Eurasia

“Sutain Khishig” The Blessing of sacred Sutai Mountain—Arvai Barley Flour

Cooperative “Bayalag Sutain Khugjil” The initiative’s goal is to revitalise the culture of respect for local food and the practice of Arvai sowing, growing, harvesting, and eating as an integral part of a healthy and prosperous life in the mountainous communities of Western Mongolia and beyond. The intrinsic connection between people and the landscape is …

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Strengthening promotion of agrobiodiversity of seed systems based on community

Public organization “Zan va Zamin”(Women and the Earth) The main goal of the initiative is to promote the conservation of rare valuable local varieties of agricultural plants and the development of local seed production for food by supporting and strengthening 3 established community seed banks and increasing the capacity of women seed keepers in the …

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Nomadic Nature Trunk (NNT)

Land of Snow Leopard Network (LOSL) The NNT program is an award-winning conservation project that designed portable trunks containing conservation education materials comprising 15-20 highly interactive game-based lessons covering native biodiversity, habitats, and human-wildlife conflict. LOSL is committed to decolonising mainstream conservation by incorporating and prioritising Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and indigenous spiritual traditions in …

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Documenting and Promoting Traditional Medical Knowledge and Skills: Midwives as Bearers of Centuries-Old Health-related Traditions

Public Association “Miralina” The project aims to document traditional medicinal knowledge about curing people using medicinal plants. In particular, the traditional medical knowledge related to childbirth and skills related to caring for an infant and the infant’s mother are being lost and are safeguarded only by a few knowledge bearers. 320 knowledge bearers in very …

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Documenting the Petroglyphs of Ak-Bulun (Ak-Suisky District, Issyk-Kulsky Oblast, Kyrgyzstan).

Aigine Cultural Research Center (CRC) Spiritual practitioners in Kyrgyzstan believe that petroglyphs preserve ancient people’s knowledge, document rituals and daily practices, and contain coded information for descendants. Aigine Center will hold training seminars, work with students to certify the Ak-Bulun petroglyphs, create an online map and an information stand, and enter the complex data into …

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