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Arid Lands Newsletter Vol. 30 (Fall/Winter 1990)

, 1990
Natural Resources Management and Human Welfare / Peter Warshall -- Barriers to Sustained Development: Embedded Institutions and Arid Resource Management / Eric J. Arnould -- Conservation of Rare Mammals in the Deserts of the USSR / V. M. Neronov, V.
University of Arizona. Office of Arid Lands Studies.
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An indigenous soil classification system for Bellona Island - a raised atoll in the Solomon Islands

, 2010
One of the challenges of evaluating existing traditional farming systems is to combine localknowledge and modern scientific methods and terminology. This requires an evaluation of indigenoussoil classification in modern terms.
Breuning-Madsen, Henrik, Elberling, Bo, Bruun, Thilde Bech   +2 more
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Local and scientific knowledge in the school context: characterization and content of published works. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2020
Sotero MC, Alves ÂGC, Arandas JKG, Medeiros MFT.   +3 more
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Ethnopedology in the Family Agricultural Production Unit Canto da Ilha de Cima, São Miguel do Gostoso, RN

, 2016
The union and the exchange of knowledge between the peasantry and the academy are very important tools for environmental studies, proper management of agroecosystems and the inclusion of technologies adapted to semi-arid conditions. The aim of this study
Cunha, Marialdo Santana da
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Indigenous soil enrichment for food security and climate change mitigation in Africa and Asia : a review

, 2017
As alternatives to industrial agriculture such as agroecology and ‘ecological intensification’ gain policy traction there is renewed interest in traditional agro-ecosystems.
Amanor, Kojo, Fraser, James Angus, Lehmann, Johannes, Fairhead, James, Solomon, Dawit, Leach, Melissa;   +5 more
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Space and place through soil: Participatory mapping, ethnopedology, and the importance of local & gendered knowledge

, 2011
This poster introduces preliminary research regarding participatory mapping in an effort to provide a methodological design for future research which combines scientific knowledge with local and gendered knowledge.
Martin, Jessica, Christie, Maria Elisa
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Strengthening 'folk ecology': community-based learning for integrated soil fertility management, western Kenya

, 2006
Farmers and researchers in western Kenya have used community-based learning approaches to jointly develop a `dynamic expertise¿ of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM).
Mukalama, John B., Ramisch, J.J., Ekise, I.E., Mukalama, J.B., Misiko, Michael T., Misiko, M., Ramisch, Joshua J., Ekise, Isaac E.   +7 more
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Classification Systems: Indigenous

, 2017
WOS: 000467370700095Numerous developing countries, with agricultural and natural resource management traditions dating back to several thousand years, have generated, via hundreds of ethnic groups living in dozens of different ecological zones, an ...
Akca, Erhan, Kapur, Selim
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Ethnopedological knowledge by local farmers in Sarawak for agricultural activity : a case study at Nanga Machan, Kanowit [PDF]

, 2012
Ethnopedology is one aspect of indigenous knowledge, which study on the local people knowledge in evaluating the soil fertility and suitability for agriculture purposes while encompassed of soil and land use knowledge systems of rural populations ...
Alissee Sherrylin, anak Bagol
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Indigenous Soil Classifications: What is their structure and function, and how do they compare to scientific soil classifications?

, 1994
Metadata only recordEttema explains that ethnopedology includes local understanding of soil properties, processes, classifications, management, and soil-plant relationships. Her work focuses on indigenous methods of classification and comparisons between
Ettema, C. H.
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