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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
for development purposes. A search for antibacterial agents in the extracts of 44 different types of fern found in Trinidad, for example, showed positive results in 77 % of the extracts. (Richard E. Schultes and Albert Hoffman, Les . plantes des dieux: Les plantes hallucinogènes, Botanique et Ethnologique, 1981).
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