Indigenous Knowledge

Community coping practices, local community knowledge accumulated over generations of living in a particular environment that is shared and applied to reduce community vulnerability and form the basis of community coping practices.

Tanzanian farmers look to science - and tradition - to resist drought

19 Jan 2012, AlertNet

AlertNet reports that some farmers in the Southern Highlands are more likely to use traditional maize varieties, as it is suggested that traditional knowledge could be good to adapt agriculture to climate change...