Download or read book Indigenous Tribal Farming for Sustainable Production written by Lakshmana Kella and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to high altitude tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Download or read book Scientific Advancements in Tribal Farming Knowledge written by Ravish Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Scientific Advancements in Tribal Farming Knowledge," Ravish Kumar embarks on a captivating journey through the heartland of traditional agricultural practices, shedding light on the ingenious wisdom of indigenous tribes and their remarkable ability to coexist harmoniously with nature. Kumar's work is a profound exploration of the symbiotic relationship between modern science and age-old tribal farming techniques. Drawing on years of research and firsthand experiences, Kumar highlights the invaluable contributions of tribal communities to sustainable agriculture. He underscores how their profound understanding of local ecosystems, traditional crop management, and organic farming methods can inform and enrich contemporary agricultural practices. This book serves as a bridge, connecting the wisdom of tribal farmers with the tools of modern science, enabling the creation of innovative and sustainable farming solutions. Readers will be captivated by the compelling stories of tribal communities, their agricultural rituals, and the indigenous knowledge that has been passed down through generations. Kumar masterfully intertwines storytelling with scientific insight, making this book accessible to both scholars and the general public. "Scientific Advancements in Tribal Farming Knowledge" is a testament to the resilience, wisdom, and resourcefulness of indigenous tribes and a call to action for society to embrace their valuable contributions to modern farming. Ravish Kumar's thought-provoking work serves as a beacon, guiding us toward a more sustainable and harmonious future in agriculture.
Download or read book The River of Life written by Michael Marchand and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability defines the need for any society to live within the constraints of the land's capacity to deliver all natural resources the society consumes. This book compares the general differences between Native Americans and western world view towards resources. It will provide the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a sustainability portfolio designed by indigenous peoples. This book introduces the ideas on how to link nature and society to make sustainable choices. To be sustainable, nature and its endowment needs to be linked to human behavior similar to the practices of indigenous peoples. The main goal of this book is to facilitate thinking about how to change behavior and to integrate culture into thinking and decision-processes.
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples food systems written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides an overview of the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems, in terms of natural resource management, access to the market, diet diversity, indigenous peoples’ governance systems, and links to traditional knowledge and indigenous languages. While enhancing the learning on Indigenous Peoples food systems, it will raise awareness on the need to enhance the protection of Indigenous Peoples' food systems as a source of livelihood for the 476 million indigenous inhabitants in the world, while contributing to the Zero Hunger Goal. In addition, the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) and the UN Food Systems Summit call on the enhancement of sustainable food systems and on the importance of diversifying diets with nutritious foods, while broadening the existing food base and preserving biodiversity. This is a feature characteristic of Indigenous Peoples' food systems since hundreds of years, which can provide answers to the current debate on sustainable food systems and resilience.
Download or read book Microbiological Advancements for Higher Altitude Agro Ecosystems Sustainability written by Reeta Goel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the challenges and opportunities associated with high-altitude agro-ecosystems and the factors that influence them. It discusses the various indigenous agricultural practices and approaches, as well as the microbiology of mountain & hill agro-ecosystems, providing a comprehensive overview of the various factors that control the microbiome at high altitudes. The contributions examine microbiological advances, such as use of “omics” technologies for hill agriculture and environmental sustainability, and explore the use of nanotechnology for agricultural and environmental sustainability at higher altitudes. The book also describes various aspects of low-temperature microbiology in the context of high-altitude farming and environmental sustainability.
Download or read book Voices from the Forest written by Malcolm Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system. Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries--including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists--collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge--and combining it with new scientific and technical advances--the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.
Download or read book Enduring Seeds written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity while providing insights into traditional Native agricultural practices in the Americas. Gary Paul Nabhan here reveals the rich diversity of plants found in tropical forests and their contribution to modern crops, then tells how this diversity is being lost to agriculture and lumbering. He then relates "local parables" of Native American agriculture—from wild rice in the Great Lakes region to wild gourds in Florida—that convey the urgency of this situation and demonstrate the need for saving the seeds of endangered plants. Nabhan stresses the need for maintaining a wide gene pool, not only for the survival of these species but also for the preservation of genetic strains that can help scientists breed more resilient varieties of other plants. Enduring Seeds is a book that no one concerned with our environment can afford to ignore. It clearly shows us that, as agribusiness increasingly limits the food on our table, a richer harvest can be had by preserving ancient ways. This edition features a new foreword by Miguel Altieri, one of today's leading spokesmen for sustainable agriculture and the preservation of indigenous farming methods.
Download or read book Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social Economic and Environmental Sustainability written by James C. Spee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a climate of in-migration, clan and tribal communities have been forced to build sustainable solutions together. Breaking fresh ground by shining a light on sustainability journeys from outside the global mainstream, this book demonstrates how sustainable development occurs in respectful collaboration between equals.
Download or read book The Economics of Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge Systems Into Agricultural Development written by Sunday O. Titilola and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indigenous Knowledge And Climate Change written by Passmore Chishaka and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a critical reading of colonial archives and extensive use of oral sources, this dissertation argues that indigenous custodians of the landscape in semi-arid regions of the Zimbabwean Lowveld have a longstanding experience of harnessing their environmental literacy and detailed knowledge of nature to combat climate change. Starting with colonial encounters and contested boundaries of knowledge in Southern Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) since the early twentieth century, I demonstrate that oral traditions survived the onslaught of colonialism and offered new generations ways of responding to climate change. I use empirical examples to demonstrate that indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) have been obscured under the veneer of colonial historiography, hence, the importance of recovering African cultural achievements and indigenous agency to the historical record. This dissertation examines the adoption of various coping strategies and sustainable agricultural practices initiated by indigenous people to promote climate smart agriculture and identifies the factors that influence adoption of certain adaptive practices. Water has been a central and defining factor of Africa's development trajectory. A growing body of literature has demonstrated that agricultural yields have been declining in developing countries, including Zimbabwe, due to the impacts of climate change. Indigenous experiences, conceptions and perceptions have played a vital role in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Indigenous farmers are at peace with modernity and modernization, but in the absence of modern technologies and state support, they have been going back to traditional forms of development. The interrelated objectives of climate change mitigation, adaptation and food security were simultaneously sustained through the hybrid integration of indigenous and modern farming practices in agricultural production and sustainable development planning. Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) are adaptable in building resilience of agricultural systems to climate change. Historically, the use of IKS and climate smart agriculture techniques increased indigenous farmers' resilience to climate change impacts. The notion of decolonizing knowledge has larger resonance with the quest for epistemic sovereignty. Since the early twentieth century, top-down scientific agricultural research initiatives and the West's more abstract ideas about progress and enlightenment in African colonies, including Southern Rhodesia, were challenged by the African communities, and sometimes adapted to local realities. At the heart of the conflict lay questions of control, continuity, and sustainability. Although the British structure of knowledge and colonial knowledge production overlooked IKS and privileged Western environmental management practices, indigenous farmers held fast to custom and tradition. Despite being subjected to involuntary resettlement in unproductive Reserves and Tribal Trustlands (present day communal areas), indigenous farmers continued to tap into local knowledge to survive and make ends meet in inhospitable ecosystems. They are in perennial battle mode, a battle that will never end. The colonial period was engulfed with contested boundaries of knowledge between preexisting indigenous epistemologies vis-aÌ0-vis Western modern approaches to environmental conservation. Nevertheless, indigenous people did not abandon their ways of knowing and of reading landscape because they do not trust experts but their experience. I transcend Western frames of reference to recover indigenous lifeways and sustenance systems of custodians of the landscape who have bonded with the land for generations. A preponderance of exclusionary colonial policies and forced removals of indigenous people from their productive farming areas in the Highveld created a longstanding land question that eventually triggered Zimbabwe's liberation struggle between the 1960s and 1980. Two decades after Zimbabwe's attainment of independence and self-determination, the land question lingered on, unresolved. It took the agency of bottom-up social movements to challenge primitive accumulation and racial landscapes of exclusion. The Fast-Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP), which commenced in earnest in 2000, helped to redress skewed land ownership regimes of the colonial period. White commercial farmers who had retained productive commercial farmland after independence were eventually booted out and replaced by indigenous farmers. Zimbabwe attained political transition in 1980 but hardly any notable economic transition and empowerment until 2000. Indigenous beneficiaries of the land reform program adopted a hybrid use of indigenous and modern knowledge to inform and shape farm structure, management, and practice. The thesis concludes that there is no perfect solution to sustainable agricultural development particularly in the tropics. Climate change impacts have made it more challenging to produce sufficient food and contributed to a substantial decline in the agricultural output. Since the sum-total of crops harvested per unit of land cultivated have not met forecasted demand for food, the hybridization of indigenous and modern knowledge holds promise to enhance agricultural productivity on existing land through irrigation, hybrid fertilization and adoption of new methods like precision farming for sustainable development. Breaking down the dichotomous binaries between indigenous and modern knowledge yields higher promise for synthesized planning and sustainable development. More sustainable agricultural development gains could be achieved through integrated support systems to climate forecasting, knowledge weaving, hybrid extension advisory, and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices to address gaps in food security. For sustainable agricultural growth to be achieved, institutional reform concurrent with significant investments in agricultural modernization is needed in developing countries. Alternatively, food distribution should be evenly shared from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn't. Governments and business would also need to work together to encourage innovation, increase productivity and integration in supply chains toward a sustainable food balance. This affords us prospects to rethink Zimbabwe's development trajectory since the colonial period and a window of opportunity to carve out appropriate tools and solutions to guide sustainable development. Broadly conceived, this dissertation has larger implications for food security and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa in general, and rural Zimbabwe in particular.
Download or read book Environmental and Ecological Sustainability Through Indigenous Traditions written by Binay Kumar Pattnaik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 50 written by Vipin Kumar Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems. The contents of this volume will help the policy makers and environmental engineers in combating the continuously rising threats to cultivated ecosystems.
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change written by Malcolm F. Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 1405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for the growing of crops for a few years, and then moving on to new sites, leaving the earlier ground fallow to regain its soil fertility. This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Some critics have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, the book shows that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment and local communities. The book focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers, particularly in south and south-east Asia, and presents over 50 contributions by scholars from around the world and from various disciplines, including agricultural economics, ecology and anthropology. It is a sequel to the much praised "Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming" (RFF Press, 2007), but all chapters are completely new and there is a greater emphasis on the contemporary challenges of climate change and biodiversity conservation.
Download or read book Agroecology written by Miguel A Altieri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book incorporates new insights and concepts in the hope of helping guide agricultural students, researchers, and practitioners to a deeper understanding of the ecology of agricultural systems that will open the doors to new management options with the objectives of sustainable agriculture.
Download or read book First International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Computational Intelligence written by Ashish Kumar Luhach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers high-quality papers presented at the First International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Computational Intelligence (ICTSCI 2019), which was organized by Sri Balaji College of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on March 29–30, 2019. It covers emerging topics in computational intelligence and effective strategies for its implementation in engineering applications.
Download or read book Wild Food Plants for Zero Hunger and Resilient Agriculture written by Ajay Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited volume brings out a comprehensive collection of information relevant to wild food plants, their importance for global sustainable food security, future-readiness, and resilient agriculture. The book's primary focus is to cover topics on the diversity of wild food plants across the globe, their nutraceutical importance, production-consumption trends, integration into the current food menu, and marketing and livelihood opportunities to the indigenous people. Sustainable development goals 1, 2, and 3 are significant for a poverty-free, hunger-free world and ensure good health and wellbeing of the people, respectively. The three goals are important and interlinked as achieving zero poverty will help reduce hunger among the people. Availability of nutritional and balanced food ensures good health. Wild food plants are an essential part of a nourishing and healthy diet for indigenous communities. They are globally collected from natural habitats or cultivated at more minor scales. Although consumed locally, they are an essential part of the diets of tribal and indigenous communities worldwide and hold immense potential to alleviate global hunger. Considering their importance for global sustainable food security, it is essential to clearly understand the future role of wild food plants for future readiness and resilient agriculture. Therefore, this book provides a piece of important information on these aspects. The book is a valuable resource for the audience ranging from undergraduate science students to the NGOs and institutions involved in poverty alleviation programs, policymakers, dieticians, horticulturists, plant breeders, farmers, health experts, and food enthusiasts.
Download or read book Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment LCSA written by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA) that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or ‘triple bottom line’ model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). LCSA refers to the evaluation of all environmental, social and economic negative impacts and benefits in decision-making processes towards more sustainable products throughout their life cycle. Combination of environmental and social life cycle assessments along with life cycle costing leads to life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA). This book highlights various aspects of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA).
