The present document is a contribution of the IPBES task force on ILK to the IPBES assessment on Pollination and Pollinators associated with Food Production. Its aim is twofold:
- To assist the co-chairs, coordinating lead authors and lead authors of the Pollination Assessment by facilitating their access to indigenous and local knowledge relevant to the assessment theme.
- To pilot the initial approaches and procedures for building ILK into IPBES assessments that are under development by the ILK task force in order to test their efficacy and improve the final ILK approaches and procedures that the task force will propose to the Plenary of IPBES.