Indigenous Knowledge on the South African Landscape: Potentials for Agricultural DevelopmentHSRC Press, 2006 - 44 pages The paper looks primarily at recent examples of agricultural practices in which resource-poor agrarian householders have used their indigenous knowledge, as well as innovations to overcome many of the socioeconomic, political and environmental constraints they experience. |
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Page 2 - Development packages are resisted, embraced, reshaped or accommodated depending on the specific content and context
Page 13 - Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new and better ways of managing resources - building on and expanding the boundaries of their IK.
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