Grassroots innovations for survival

The Honey Bee network has collected over 10,000 examples of innovations and examples of traditional local knowledge in the sustainable management of natural resources. These are shared with farmers and scientists through the Honey Bee newsletter. The author presents some of these innovations. Given the unjust practice of extracting local knowledge from people for corporate benefits the author stresses the need for an international registry of farmer innovations and the restructuring of international and national public research.