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    Survey of Indigenous Water Management and Coping Mechanisms in Africa: Implications for Knowledge and Technology Policy

    "Despite the impressive water resource endowments, Africa lags behind other continents in per caput access to safe water, volume of irrigation water, and food security and tops the league of poor countries. Some of the answers to this lamentable si…

    Femi Olokesusi

    • Water Resources Management
    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Water Purification
    • Water management
    • Agricultural resources
    • Water-supply
    36 pages

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    Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Adaptation Policy in Northern Ghana

    "The onset of climate change poses a direct challenge to small-scale agricultural production and food security in Ghana. Though this type of farming can be responsive to climatic variations, adaptation policies that promote high-resource solutions a…

    Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Food Security
    • Agricultural Production
    • Climate Adaptation Policy
    • Climatic changes
    • Agricultural resources
    • Sustainable living
    10 pages

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    Indigenous Forest Conservation Methods: The Case of the Pygmy Forest Conservation Techniques

    "This policy brief examines local pygmy knowledge and situates it within the wider context of forest conservation in the Congo Basin. The policy brief applies the term indigenous knowledge from a generic standpoint relating to knowledge that is uniq…

    Nicasius Achu Check

    • Pygmy Local Knowledge
    • Forest Conservation
    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects
    • Sustainable forestry
    • Climatic changes
    8 pages

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    Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Ethiopia Report of Ethiopia National Workshop

    "This paper has three synthesis. First synthesis: African Philosophy, and within this continent-wide perspective, a second synthesis: the history of Ethiopian Philosophy written in Ge'ez, and together with this second synthesis, the oral expression…

    Claude Sumner

    Wossenu Yimam

    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Ethnoveterinary Practices
    • Surma People
    • Renewable natural resources--Government policy
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Water management
    27 pages

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    Traditional Oromo Attitudes Towards the Environment: An Argument for Environmentally Sound Development

    "This paper explores traditional Oromo attitudes towards the environment and their impact on rural development, environmental protection and modern environmental ethics. Its major findings are that environment has always been the fundamental concer…

    Workineh Kelbessa

    • Oromo Traditional Religion
    • Oromo Society
    • Wildlife Management
    • Indigenous Soil Management
    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Agriculture--Environmental aspects
    • Environmental protection
    • Aquatic resources
    • Intellectual property--Government policy
    111 pages

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    Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge in Swaziland: Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Development

    "The search for sustainable solutions to the development and technology problems that continue to confront developing countries has led to renewed interest in the potential contribution of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) to research and development activ…

    Musa A. Dube

    Patricia J. Musi

    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Sustainable Agricultural Development
    • Sustainable development
    • Agricultural resources
    30 pages

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    Toward an Effective Indigenous Knowledge Protection Regime: Case Study of South Africa

    South Africa has a rich tradition of Indigenous knowledge covering uses of the country’s abundant natural resources. South Africa’s development of a multi-faceted framework for cultural and genetic resource protection in relation to Indigenous knowl…

    Margo A. Bagley

    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Information Protection
    • Bioprospecting
    • Law
    • Economic development
    37 pages

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    Building Climate Resilience Through Effective, Gender-Sensitive Migration Policy in the SADC Region

    This policy briefing discusses the centrality of communicating climate change impacts through a people-centred approach that considers communities’ wellbeing by linking climate change to poverty and a human rights-based, gender-responsive migration …

    Bertha Chiroro

    • Gender-responsive migration policy
    • Sustainable Livelihoods
    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Climatic changes
    • Indigenous peoples--Civil Rights
    • Migration
    • Sustainable living
    9 pages

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    Accelerating Adaptation in Africa: Insights from African Adaptation Experts

    Africa’s climate is already changing: average land temperatures have increased by more than 1°C since pre-industrial times, sea levels are rising and extreme weather events, such as storms and droughts, are more frequent. Further climate change is i…

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

    • Indigenous Knowledge
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Climate Risk Management
    • Climatic changes
    37 pages

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