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Indigenous knowledge for sustainability

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Fri, 02/08/2008 - 03:36 — Chriswaterguy

I found this interesting:

Tula Region of Bauchi State in Nigeria
Living in a sustainable manner is often thought to be a new idea. Actually, long before the term "sustainable development" was even coined, communities the world over were living this way. Many had developed highly advanced ways of cooperating with nature to provide for their needs without destroying the environments. A good example can be found in the Tula region of Bauchi State in Nigeria, where the villagers have farmed the fragile land intensively for centuries, maintaining and even improving its capacity to sustain them. Their techniques of stone terracing, organic fertilizing, intercropping and crop rotation have been perfected over hundreds of years and have proven extremely effective in maintaining the community's agricultural base. -- Source: Meyer and Moosang 1992: 86. (Quoted in Environmental Colours of Microfinance.)

Has anyone done a deep study of indigenous techniques and their relevance to our current situation?

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