Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge in Managing Climate Change
TK Community, 19 August 2009
LONDON, UK: Indigenous and traditional knowledge is being recognized for its critical role in managing climate change. Farmers in Bolivia’s Amazon are turning to traditional irrigation systems for more sustainable agriculture, and are building “camellones” resulting in a sustainable use of flood waters without loss of seeds and crops. In India, traditional indigenous engineering is being implemented in order to establish sustainable systems of water management in modern agriculture. Read the article …
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