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.

taxonomy of the genus solanum, the plant family of the potato, further perhaps than modern science has done. The Aymara have names in their language for over 250 potato varieties. However, the threat to food security is not the only danger posed by the loss of biodiversity in modern agricultural systems. Such loss

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