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

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).