The documentation and validation of these remedies are urgently needed, as many medicinal plants and indigenous knowledge of how to use these valuable natural resources are being lost.
The tools, selected for their potential to generate involvement in the planning process needed both to incorporate Indigenous knowledge of water use and management and raise awareness in the Indigenous community of Western science and water resources management.
The next time your neighborhood barista offers you a character sketch of the beans that went into making your Chemex pour-over, try asking him about biopiracy, the appropriation of indigenous knowledge of nature by corporations and other profit-seekers.
By addressing these three questions, the study shows the value of incorporating the indigenous knowledge of herders into classification of landscape and assessment and monitoring of biodiversity in the grazing lands.
Another viable source of knowledge for forest restoration can be the study of the semi-natural revegetation processes in fallows and the indigenous knowledge of swiddeners of these processes.
Shiva founded her Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in 1982, in a cow shed at the foothills of the Himalayas, to "serve the powerless not the powerful, which would not get all its cue from Western Universities and international institutions, but would also be open to learn from the indigenous knowledge of local communities".
During the time of my birth in 1959, [we] only [had] the indigenous knowledge of elder women, but during my kids' time, they were provided with all the preventative vaccines and check-ups before and after birth in the small village, and later in the town and city.
Parata and his family believe whale oil and byproducts could be used to try to cure Kauri dieback, and want more government money and attention directed towards indigenous knowledge of the interconnectedness of the New Zealand environment, and possible indigenous solutions.
Indigenous knowledges of landscapes have not often explicitly informed GIS analyses in archaeology, even though archaeologists and indigenous communities around the world are forging collaborative relationships.
Ethnomedicines constitute a noteworthy part of indigenous knowledge systems of human health management worldwide.
They use the term "indigenous knowledge" instead of TEK, though their use of this term is synonymous with TEK because they are talking about indigenous peoples' knowledge of the natural world and the relationships between living things and the environment.b They see Western modern science as "the most powerful way of producing naturalistic explanations of natural phenomena".
