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Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development
Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development Mervyn Claxton Third Dation istingushed Lecture, The Cropper FoundUWI, St Aud Tobago gustine, Trinidad anSeptember 1, 2010 Page | 1 Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge , and Sustainable Development are very closely linked. The Indigenous Knowledge systems of the peoples of the South constitute the world largest reservoir of knowledege of the diverse species of plant and animal life on earth. For many centuries, their Indigenous agricultural systems have utilized practices and techniques which embody, what one scientist has called Principles of Permanence - principles that permit continuous cropping all year around without the use of chemicals which degrade the environment. Furthermore, not only do they not deplete the earth s natural resources but they often replenish them. Ecological agriculture, organic agriculture, and conservation agriculture are the names employed by modern science to describe the methods, techniques, and practices which the Indigenous peoples of the South have applied for many centuries.
only then, will we possess the cultural confidence to deal with the North on the basis of its real merits (and demerits) and not on its perceived merits, and ... taxonomy revealed their profound technical knowledge of their biological environment. In an article published, in 1916, in the bulletin of the Bureau of ...
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