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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Animal production and health, Pastoralism, Participation, pastoralism indigenous knowledge

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    De-romanticising indigenous knowledge: challenges from Egypt

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Is there really such a thing as community indigenous knowledge – a shared understanding of what makes something a resource and how it is valued? Or are we clinging to naïve notions of ‘pristine’ truths, the relics of a ‘purer’ past which we allegedly need to unlock in order to enhance development?
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    Integration of indigenous knowledge into land-use planning for the communal rangelands of Namibia

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 2001
    The paper argues that the indigenous knowledge of the Herero could provide the basis for better land-use policy and user rights in the communal lands of Namibia.This short article:reviews recent academic literaturelooks at the historical and legal backgound to land management in Namibiareports in 2 village field studies
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    Where there is no data: participatory approaches to veterinary epidemiology in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002
    This paper provides an overview of recent experiences with the use of participatory approaches and methods to understand livestock diseases in pastoral areas. These experiences include the emergence of participatory epidemiology as a distinct branch of veterinary epidemiology, and most recently, studies on the validity and reliability of participatory methods.
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    Karamojong scientists: participatory field trial of a local dewormer

    Ethnovetweb, 2000
    This article concerns itself with the pastoralists of the arid-semi-arid and insecure Karamoja of Northeastern Uganda. This article describes ongoing participatory field trials of Albezia anthelmentica as an economically viable way for pastoralists in this region to deworm their livestock.The article finds that:A.