Indigenous knowledge and sustainable development: 25 selected papers presented at the international symposium held by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, September 20-26, 1992

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Year of Publication
1993
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Regional Program for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge in Asia, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Conference Location
Silang, Cavite, Philippines
Language
English
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HC79.E5I514 1993
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Contains the following papers:

  • Rice and fish: Dual function of rice fields among the Kasepuhan people in West Java, Indonesia (Kusnaka ab Adimihardja)
  • Indigenous knowledge and local level development: The participatory approach
  • The indigenous communal forest management system of Lachok Village, Kaski District, West Nepal
  • Karen's indigenous knowledge forest management and sustainable development in Upland Northern Thailand (Sutee Boonto)
  • Local resource management strategies: A case example from Upland Laguna (Levita Duhaylungsod)
  • Where there has been no "green revolution": Farmers' upland rices and related knowledge in Mindanao, Philippines (S. Fujisaka,P. Elliot, E. Jayson, E., A. Dapusala)
  • Survey of innovations for sustainable development: Do methods matter? (Anil K. Gupta, Kirit K. Patel)
  • Ancient futures for indigenous people: Cultural and biological diversity through self determination
  • The indigenous food plants programme of Kenya (Christine Kabuye)
  • Promoting the international IK-Network: The supportive role of CIRAN
  • The study and utilization of indigenous knowledge systems at CEICADAR
  • Ethnoveterinary research: Lessons for development
  • Indigenous knowledge (IK) for community forestry management: The link between knowledge and application with examples from research in Nepal
  • Indigenous communication and indigenous knowledge: Concepts and interfaces
  • Culture: Today's great unanswered issue in development
  • FISHBASE as a worldwide computerized repository of ethno-ichthyology or indigenous knowledge on fishes (M. L. D. Palomares, D. Pauly)
  • Local knowledge and global resources: User participation in crop germplasm research
  • Methodology for the study of farmers' agricultural local "indigenous" knowledge systems in rural development programs: in-service training program for research/extension practioners -- An experience from Venezuela
  • Lessons from indigenous knowledge: Shamanistic modes for environmental accounting in the Colombian Amazon (Elizabeth Reichel)
  • Establishment of a national resource center for indigenous knowledge: The case of PhiRCSDIK
  • Learning from fishers: Indigenous knowledge and SEAFDEC's pilot seafarming and searanching project (Susana V. Siar, Rolando S. Ortega, Alessandro S. Babol)
  • Indigenous agricultural knowledge systems in Kenya (East Africa): Origins, development and prospects
  • Indigenous soil fertility management in the hills of Nepal: Lessons from an east-west transect (Devika Tamang)
  • Indigenous knowledge system for sustainable development: The case of pest control by traditional paddy farmers in Sri Lanka (Rohana Ulluwishewa)
  • Indigenous agricultural technology: A case study in Northeast Thailand (Chaicharn Wongsamun).
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Research Notes
Local system: (OCoLC)820560133
Number of pages
520 pp.
Short Title
Indigenous knowledge and sustainable development