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# ‘Traditional knowledge’ is not one input when knowledge, labor and authority are gendered
- URL: https://intelligence.wildlandseco.com/2026-09-27-pacific-gendered-traditional-knowledge-adaptation/
- Published: 2026-09-27T11:16:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-27T11:16:10.000Z
- Description: A Pacific Islands review finds adaptation knowledge distributed through different roles and responsibilities—and warns that formal inclusion can still overlook who holds and transmits it.
- Author: Benjamin Worlund
- Tags: Pacific islands, traditional knowledge, gender, adaptation, Governance, Indigenous and local knowledge, climate adaptation, Human dimensions, #ecological-intelligence, #brief-2026-09-27, #priority-read, #peer-reviewed

Evidence

Peer-reviewed

Geography

Pacific Island communities; emphasis on Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati

System

Small-island social–ecological systems

## WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS

A critical narrative review organizes Pacific evidence across food and agriculture, water and marine management, disaster-risk awareness, caregiving and recovery. It finds complementary gendered knowledge and roles, while women's ecological expertise and recovery work are frequently undervalued in formal decision-making.

## WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ

Locally led adaptation is not strengthened merely by adding a generic ‘traditional knowledge’ box to a plan. Governance has to identify who actually holds particular knowledge, who performs the work, who has decision authority and whose knowledge is systematically excluded.

## CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY

This is a critical narrative review rather than a quantitative effectiveness meta-analysis. Evidence is uneven across the Pacific, concentrated in several high-island contexts, based largely on localized qualitative studies and restricted to English-language literature; findings should not be flattened into a universal Pacific gender model.

## SOURCE

Regional Environmental Change  
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