@article {739,
title = {Proposal for research funding: Formal representation and use of indigenous knowledge of agroforestry},
year = {1990},
month = {January 20, 1990},
address = {University of Wales; University of Edinburgh},
abstract = {
Research objectives:
- to obtain, from a community, local knowledge about interactions occurring in agroforestry practices and to represent this knowledge in a form in which it can be tested;
- to establish the extent to which the recorded knowledge system is mechanistic and robust, and therefore useful in allowing successful adaptation of the production system to external change;
- to identify gaps in the local and scientific knowledge about interactions occurring in agroforestry practices and integrate both types of knowledge within the same expert system; and
- to construct a set of general recommendations on the integration of local and scientific knowledge to solve problems, and the most appropriate balance between the two in research and development.
},
keywords = {local knowledge, agroforestry, recorded knowledge, research and development },
author = {University of Wales and University of Edinburgh}
}