{"id":2857,"date":"2025-12-23T19:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/?page_id=2857"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:05:29","slug":"second-inmip-international-horizontal-learning-exchange","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/second-inmip-international-horizontal-learning-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Event – Second INMIP International Horizontal Learning Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jafr and Tuggoz Communities, Tajikistan<\/h6>

Climate Change and Biocultural Adaptation in Mountain Communities<\/h4><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t
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In September 2015, indigenous mountain farmers representing 21 communities in 10 countries met in Tajikistan to discuss the impacts of climate change, exchange traditional knowledge for adaptation, and to develop collective responses. This was the second INMIP involving communities from Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Peru, Taiwan, Tajikistan and Thailand. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Of the communities represented, about half are high-altitude communities (above 2,000 meters above sea level), a quarter are mid-altitude (above 1,000 masl), and a quarter are from low-altitude tropical rainforests (about 800 masl). A \u2018walking workshop\u2019 methodology was used, allowing farmers to exchange knowledge about problems and solutions while walking through the landscape.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Participants of the seven-day workshop documented climate change impacts since the\u00a0Bhutan\u00a0workshop, using the same assessment framework, exchanged techniques and tools for enhancing\u00a0resilience, and agreed to establish international networks of\u00a0Biocultural Heritage Territories<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bancos comunitarios de semillas<\/a>\u00a0as collective responses for adaptation.\u00a0The Tajikistan exchange consolidated\u00a0INMIP as an institution for climate change innovation adaptation.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The farmers reported a number of climatic changes and impacts in their communities in the last 30 years: rising temperatures, increasing pests and disease, melting glaciers, and shifts in the altitudinal ranges\u2002of\u2002crops.\u2002Erratic\u2002rainfall\u2002has\u2002significantly\u2002reduced\u2002the\u2002water\u2002available\u2002for\u2002irrigation\u2002and\u2002drinking,\u2002and extreme events such as drought and typhoons have become more severe and more frequent. Many\u2002of\u2002the\u2002adaptation\u2002responses\u2002and\u2002solutions\u2002identified\u2002are\u2002based\u2002on\u2002indigenous\u2002knowledge\u2002of\u2002how\u2002to cope with more extreme weather, traditional crop varieties adapted to a range of conditions, and traditional farming practices that reduce risk and conserve the natural resource base. While solutions like high-tech seeds may be effective in increasing productivity in the short term, some farmers noted a decline in productivity after one or two years of using chemical inputs. When the climate changes again, communities may have nothing to fall back on if new technologies are allowed to replace their own knowledge and seeds that are attuned to local environments. However, the adaptive capacity of many mountain communities is being weakened by the loss of local crop diversity and traditional knowledge, and the erosion of cultural and spiritual values that ensure their maintenance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tajikistan has a very rich biocultural heritage \u2013 it is a center of diversity of apples, pears, apricots, wheat, mulberry and cherry varieties, and a center of origin for rye and possibly apple. It is a highly mountainous country: 90% of the land surface is covered by mountains, and the Pamir region is so mountainous it has less than 0.04% arable land. The Tajik Pamirs are home to five main ethnic groups each with their own language: the Yazgulami, Shugnana-Rushani, Ishkashimi and Wakhani, which are all Pamiri, and the Kyrgyz ethnic group. These communities still base their livelihoods on traditional knowledge and worldviews, and are continuing to conserve and further develop many crop varieties in situ.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tajikistan was part of the Soviet Union until 1991. On the Russian (ie. Tajik) side of the border with Afghanistan, monocultures were planted and farmers started to lose their traditional knowledge and resilient seeds and agricultural practices, whereas South of the river, in Afghanistan, the Pamirs\u2019 traditional farming systems were maintained. Driving through the barren landscape, it is striking to see how pockets of green vegetation coincide with human settlements.<\/p>

The\u00a0Tuggoz Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous People<\/a>s\u00a0was developed at the international workshop. It calls on civil society, research organizations, and government authorities\u00a0to analyse the impacts of recent climatic changes on Mother Earth and on our food and farming systems, and to develop responses to this crisis.\u00a0<\/p>

This\u00a0Tajikistan Event Report\u00a0provides a record of recent climatic changes experienced by the 21 indigenous mountain communities in 10 countries, and of the solutions they have developed based on traditional knowledge and experimentation. It also shows the potential of mobilizing traditional knowledge for enriching the evidence on climate change impacts on local livelihoods and food security, and for designing effective adaptation responses that support biological and cultural diversity. The report also aims to support the sharing of traditional knowledge for adaptation amongst communities in the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) and beyond.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second INMIP International Horizontal Learning Exchange Jafr and Tuggoz Communities, Tajikistan Climate Change and Biocultural Adaptation in Mountain Communities In September 2015, indigenous mountain farmers representing 21 communities in 10 countries met in Tajikistan to discuss the impacts of climate change, exchange traditional knowledge for adaptation, and to develop collective responses. This was the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2857","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2857\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmip.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}