Few show appreciation of local wisdom and local knowledge systems or seek to create locally based solutions.
This research must integrate across existing research programmes and disciplines, across all domains of research as well as local knowledge systems, across the North and South, and must be co-designed and implemented with input from governments, civil society, research funders, and the private sector.
Local knowledge systems have a vital role to play in the implementation of land resources management policies.
Although he was critical of ethnophilosophy, Hountondji was the first philosopher to distance himself from Crahay's position, arguing that local knowledge systems were already separate from myths, as no humans can live on myths.
Community participation was said to ensure the programme resonated with local knowledge systems, norms and structures.
These behavioural factors, reflecting local knowledge systems and maternal understandings of children's illnesses, influence health outcomes.
These gender-differentiated local knowledge systems play a decisive role in the conservation, management and improvement of genetic resources for food and agriculture (FAO, 1999c).
The watershed landscape has responded to global markets at the cost of local needs, knowledge systems and social networks.
The scalability of gossip-based protocols comes from the fact that each node takes individual decisions based only on a local knowledge of the system, while still allowing the whole system to eventually converge towards a desired state.
The algorithm leverages implicit local knowledge about the system structure and uses a simple coordination mechanism to detect loops in the resource flow.
