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Category Archives: local (indigenous) knowledge
Food safety, the environment and desertification in China (Google Alert / Chinalyst / China Dialogue)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification Chinalyst http://www.chinalyst.net/node/20305 Securing our food — and our future Submitted by panamajack on Thu, 2007-08-16 16:08. :: This article was aggregated from China Dialogue Food safety is being discussed across China. With concerns … Continue reading
Family gardens, school gardens, roofs, balconies and windowsills for the hungry (Willem / About: Gardening)
Today, I received the new “About : Gardening” with interesting contributions of Marie IANNOTTI. My attention was immediately drawn to a message entitled “Plant A Row for the Hungry” (PAR). Indeed, I have been spending the major part of my … Continue reading
Posted in capacity building, cities / urbanisation, container/bottle gardening, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, family gardens, food / food security, Gardening / Horticulture, gardening kids, gender, hunger / famine, local (indigenous) knowledge, malnutrition, poverty, public health, refugees, Research / science, rooftop gardening, school gardens, Social dimensions, Soil, sustainable development, Technologies, Water, women/youth and desertification
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Traditional knowledge and biodiversity conservation (id21)
Read at : <id21NRnewsAdmin@lyris.ids.ac.uk> id21NRNews 31 – the latest id21 Natural Resources research highlights CONSERVATION Saving traditional knowledge from the ‘biopirates’ Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge about the use of natural resources is vital for conserving biodiversity. This knowledge is now … Continue reading
Ecotourism, protection of biodiversity and poverty reduction (id21)
Read at : id21 – <id21NRnewsAdmin@lyris.ids.ac.uk> id21NRNews 30 – the latest id21 Natural Resources research highlights Ecotourism: an innovative conservation and development strategy or a celebration of poverty? Jim Butcher, a lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, questions how much … Continue reading
Aborigines remain in poverty, bad health (Google Alert / People’s Daily)
Read at : Google Alert for Poverty People’s Daily on line http://english.people.com.cn/200705/28/eng20070528_378513.html Aborigines remain in poverty, bad health Australia yesterday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Aborigines citizenship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders the continent’s original … Continue reading
Zakir’s view on “Reduction of emissions from deforestation (ENB)”
Here is a comment from Zakir : farmers.voice@gmail.com Undoubtedly the book seems to be a rich piece of work and a different perspective of mitigating climate change. Since our tiny Farmers’ Research Institute is working out with the initiative of … Continue reading
Indigenous knwoledge and modern technologies (dgAlert / UNEP)
Read at : dgAlert for IndigenousIssues http://topics.developmentgateway.org/indigenous/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101838?intcmp=700This adepipe.nimbe.pdf by Adepipe, Okuneye & Ayinde The relevance of local and indigenous knowledge for Nigerian agriculture This paper presents the results of a pilot study on agricultural practices in Nigeria, commissioned by the … Continue reading
Indigenous Knowledge, soil infertility and poverty (dgAlert / REPOA)
Read at : dgAlert for Indigenous Issues http://topics.developmentgateway.org/indigenous/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101474?intcmp=700REPOA%19s&itemId=1101474 REPOA pdf “The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Combating Soil Infertility and Poverty in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.” by Juma Wickama and Stephen Mwihomeke REPOA’s Research Report 06.2 examines the use of … Continue reading
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Desertification prevention and local people (Google Alert / SciDev.Net)
Read at : Google Alert for Desertification SciDev.Net http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=3&item=News&itemid=3614&language=1 Local people ‘vital to preventing desertification’ Michelle Picard-Aitken 14 May 2007 Source: SciDev.Net Integrating the livelihoods of local people into environmental management can help prevent the desertification of the world’s drylands, … Continue reading
Drylands are not the same as badlands (dgAlert / EurekAlert)
Read at : Google Alert for desertification Eurekalert http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/du-dan051007.php Contact: Monte Basgall monte.basgall@duke.edu 919-681-8057 Duke University Drylands are not the same as badlands DURHAM, N.C. — Drylands, where 38 percent of the world’s population lives, can be protected from the … Continue reading
