Indigenous Knowledge :Enhancing its Contribution to Natural Resources Management

Publication subTitle :Enhancing its Contribution to Natural Resources Management

Author: Sillitoe P.  

Publisher: CABI Publishing‎

Publication year: 2017

E-ISBN: 9781780647074

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781780647050

Subject: S Agricultural Sciences

Keyword: 农业科学

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Preface

Acknowledgement

Note

Reference

1: Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Resources Management: An Introduction Featuring Wildlife

What is the Indigenous Knowledge Approach?

Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

Variations in Knowledge

Accommodating Different Knowledge

Predation on Scotland’s Moorlands

Promoting Collaboration

Challenges of Integration

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

2: The Dynamic Nature of Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge. An Analysis of Change Among the Baka (Congo Basin) and the Tsimane’ (Amazon)

Methodological Approach

Research context

Agricultural knowledge

Agricultural management

Plot observations

Data analysis

Agriculture Among the Tsimane’

Tsimane’ engagement with agriculture

Tsimane’ agricultural knowledge and management practices

Agriculture Among the Baka

Baka engagement with agriculture

Baka agricultural knowledge

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

3: Contingency and Adaptation over Five Decades in Nuaulu Forest-Based Plant Knowledge

Documenting Forest Knowledge

Embedded Knowledge

Changing Places: Shifting Preferences in Harvesting Canarium Species

Measuring Utility: Firewood

Ecology, the Market and Social Change: a Rattan Case Study

Conclusion

References

4: ‘Keeping our Milpa ’: Maize Production and Management of Trees by Nahuas of the Sierra de Zongolica, Mexico

Agroecological Knowledge in Context

Location and Climatic–Altitudinal Zones of the Sierra De Zongolica

Settlement History and Livelihood Strategies

Milpa – Food Crop Biodiversity and Farming Practices

Milpa – Socio-cultural Dimension

Historical Background of Forest and Tree Management

Changes and Continuity in the Use and Management of Milpa and Trees

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

5: The Contested Space that Local Knowledge Occupies: Understanding the Veterinary Knowledges and Practices of Livestock Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

What are Regarded as the Essential Characteristics of Local Knowledge?

The Role of Ignorance – the Flipside of Local Knowledge

Is Local Knowledge about Tick-Borne Diseases a ‘Specialized’ Knowledge?

The Political Economy and Contestations around ‘Local Knowledge’

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

6: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

Adoption of Best Management Practices for Natural Resource Management in Rice Production

Building on farmer knowledge for FBMPs

Building on farmer knowledge for IPM-FFS

Building on farmer knowledge for rodent pest management

Pesticide Safety

Water-Saving Technologies

Philippines

Bangladesh

Conclusion

References

7: Seeds of the Devil Weed: Local Knowledge and Learning from Videos in Mali

Farmers Learn from Videos

The seed growers (village of Siby)

Innovating with seed storage (village of Sanambelé)

Cropping patterns (village of Yorobougoula)

Video and Farmer Field School

Institutional Change in Villages

Small groups and a long-running field school (village of Promani)

The video committee (village of Kouna)

Strengthening cooperatives and groups (village of Sirakèlé)

Conclusion

Acknowledgement

References

8: ‘I Will Continue to Fight Them’: Local Knowledge, Everyday Resistance and Adaptation to Climate Change in Semi-Arid Tanzania

Local Knowledge, Everyday Resistance and Adaptation

Everyday Resistance and Coping with Drought in Semi-Arid Tanzania

Background

Forests: regulations and resistance

‘They are confusing us Gogo’: crop advice and regulations

Discussion and Conclusions

Notes

References

9: Indigenous Soil Enrichment for Food Security and Climate Change in Africa and Asia: A Review

A Typology of Indigenous Soil Enrichment

Former settlement sites

Charring vegetation in anaerobic conditions under soil

Impacts on Soil

Charcoal production and iron-smelting sites

Conclusion

References

10: Will the Real Raised-Field Agriculture Please Rise? Indigenous Knowledge and the Resolution of Competing Visions of One Way to Farm Wetlands

What Can We Learn From Present-Day RFA as Practised in the Old World?

Resource concentration as an overriding function of raised fields

Are RFs always perennial structures?

Is cultivation continuous, or interrupted by fallow periods?

RFA and Resource-Concentration Mechanisms in Natural Ecosystems of Seasonally Flooded Savannas

Spatial self-organization and resource concentration in natural ecosystems

RF farmers take advantage of natural mechanisms of resource concentration

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

11: Andean Cultural Affirmation and Cultural Integration in Context: Reflections on Indigenous Knowledge for the In Situ Conservation of Agrobiodiversity

Approaching Agrobiodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge and Culture

Cultural Affirmation

References

12: The Indigenous Knowledge of Crop Diversity and Evolution

Introduction: Crop Evolution

Investigating crop diversity

Potato diversity

Maize diversity

Anthropology’s Engagement with Crop Diversity

Farmer-mediated selection

Contrasting crop science and indigenous knowledge

Variety names, crop type and indigenous knowledge

Unconscious Selection

Conclusion

Modelling indigenous knowledge, crop diversity and crop evolution

Guidelines for understanding farmer-mediated selection

References

13: Investigating Farmers’ Knowledge and Practice Regarding Crop Seeds: Beware Your Assumptions!

Common Assumptions about Farmer Knowledge

Our Methodology

Example 1: Farmers’ Perceptions of Risk and Transgenic Maize

What did we hypothesize?

How did we test our hypotheses?

What did we find?

How did this change our understanding?

Example 2: What Maize Farmers Expect and Accomplish with Seed Selection

What did we hypothesize?

How did we test our hypothesis?

What did we find?

How did this change our understanding?

Example 3: Consistency and Variation in Farmer-Identified Bean Varieties in One Community

What did we hypothesize?

How did we test our hypothesis?

What did we find?

How did this change our understanding?

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

14: Traditional Domestic Knowledge and Skills in Post-harvest Processes: A Focus on Food Crop Storage

To Blame, or to Celebrate? Traditional On-farm Storage and Post-harvest Food Losses

The Functions of Small-scale Storage

Storage ITK and Gender

ITK in a Human-Created Ecosystem

Post-harvest, pre-storage ITK

Traditional storage structures, and mechanical and cultural controls

Chemical control of storage pests: botanicals and fumigation

Synthetic versus botanical pesticides

Storage ITK Change and Loss

Conclusions and Needs for Further Research

Notes

References

15: The Local Wisdom of Balinese Subaks

The Green Revolution

Indigenous Knowledge: Tri Hita Karana and the Subaks

Traditional autonomy of the subaks

Collective management: ‘The voice of the subak is the voice of God’

Tri Hita Karana as a World Cultural Heritage

Modelling the Functional Role of the Subaks

A watershed-scale model

Conclusion: Tri Hita Karana

Acknowledgments

References

16: Indigenous Agriculture and the Politics of Knowledge

The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge in Agricultural Technology Development: Conceptual Framework

Case 1: The Misperception of Irish Agriculture under English Settler Colonialism

Case 2: Technology Development for Smallholder Oil Palm in Indonesia

Case 3: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India: Moral and Organic or More of the Same?

Case 4: Sumak Kawsay and Socialism: Traditional Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge and State Policy in Ecuador

Discussion: Agricultural ‘Development’ and the Politics of TIAK

Notes

References

Index

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