In managing water resources, local knowledge counts much
IPP Media – 29 October 2007
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA: Alphonce Mdeka, a peasant farmer of Lulanzi village in Kilolo, stood defiantly before the environmental experts, having disagreed completely with the new theory propounded by the experts that bamboo trees are water guzzlers and in the face of the water crisis that people in every corner of the world are facing, they should be uprooted. Many communities are against the move as it defies tradition and indigenous knowledge, in which bamboos play an important role in conserving the environment as they strengthen the soil combat erosion, the leaves provide soil cover and increase fertility and they generally prevent evaporation from soil or nearby water bodies. Read the article…
