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Why traditional farming knowledge must be saved for Mzansi

As South Africa celebrates Heritage Day, agricultural experts warn that traditional farming is slipping away. Combining ...
Mongabay

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Knowledge of Caribbean ethnobotany has so far been limited and little comprehensive island- or region-wide inventories of Caribbean traditional ...
The Conversation

Traditional farming knowledge should be stored for future use: the technology to do this is available

Indigenous knowledge of agricultural practices can be preserved using digital tools. Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty Images Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in ...
Mongabay

Traditional ecological knowledge isn’t dying — it’s adapting and transforming (Commentary)

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Several years ago, I took a solo trip to the Huánuco region of the central Peruvian Amazon. After traveling five hours from the nearest town by car ...
InsideClimate News

Q&A: To Save The Planet, Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Is Indispensable

Traditional Indigenous knowledge, also called traditional ecological knowledge or traditional knowledge, is compiled by tribes according to their distinct culture and generally is transmitted orally ...
The Conversation

Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge

The problem of “biopiracy” – the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge – has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge ...