7. Indigenous Communication and Indigenous Knowledge

Mundy, P. A.; Compton, J. Lin; Warren, D. M.; Slikkerveer, L. J.; Brokensha, David

doi:10.3362/9781780444734.007

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“…The authors go on to recommend that as local seed channels are more accessible to the majority of the farming community, efforts should be made to integrate the formal and informal seed systems in order to enhance their effectiveness. Mundy and Compton (1995) similarly indicated that the erosion of indigenous communication systems by exogenous education and media endangers the survival of much indigenous knowledge, suggesting that ways to integrate the two types of information and knowledge are required.…”

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“…The use of indigenous channels offers opportunities for participation by local people in development efforts (Mundy and Compton, 1995). The use of outcome mapping during the planning of the project activities also helped to identify relevant boundary partners and to determine how to actively involve these actors.…”

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“…Mundy and Compton (1995) similarly stated that indigenous communication systems have three features: they have developed locally, are under local control, and use low levels of technology, and this describes the local forecast dissemination in CBAF. They go on to stress that an understanding of indigenous communication improves the chances of true collegial participation by local people and outsiders.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even extension personnel and radio, the most widespread forms of exogenous channels, fail to reach many rural people (Mundy and Compton, 1995). Unfortunately, local knowledge and practices were not given due consideration in many development efforts in the past.…”

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“…Indigenous channels can trigger development as informal interactions play a crucial role in influencing people to innovate or change. Interpersonal, peer, and group communication networks are important factors in farmers' decision-making (Mundy and Compton, 1995).…”

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Integrating indigenous and exogenous communication channels and capabilities through community-based armyworm forecasting

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Many development interventions have failed to generate the desired impact among African resource-poor farmers for reasons including the centralised and top-down approach, lack of active community participation, and overreliance on external information and technology delivery strategies and channels. The migrant African armyworm, Spodoptera exempta, is among the major challenges threatening livelihoods of millions of farmers in East and Southern Africa. Outbreaks occur suddenly and can devastate crops and pasture. National and regional forecasting services have been operational since the 1960s to provide warning of potential outbreaks. This system relies on information from armyworm moth traps usually operated at district level. These centralised services have a number of difficulties and limitations which include: delays in communicating trap catch data to the forecaster; forecasts are not village specific; forecasts do not reach many farmers; lack of responsibility and local ownership of traps. An innovative approach called community-based armyworm forecasting (CBAF) was developed as a response to these limitations. The new approach has been piloted and tested in several East African countries and found to be effective. CBAF establishes a system that allows each village to have its own traps and trained forecasters who collect and interpret data, and provide village specific forecasts. A recent project on CBAF piloted the approach in 10, 5 and 39 villages of Malawi, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, respectively, in the 1 st year, and in a further 25 and 38 villages of Malawi and Tanzania in the 2 nd year. Discussion with stakeholders, field observations and assessments conducted by the authors indicate that the initiative has generated a number of benefits. It built local capacity, and because of the location specific early warning it enabled farmers to combat the pest more effectively. It was noticed by the authors that local communication channels and folk media play an important role in CBAF, complementing and enhancing the effectiveness of exogenous channels. This paper discusses how CBAF makes effective use of different communication channels and capabilities, and highlights preliminary results.

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The Politics of Knowledge in Using GIS for Land Management in India

Puri

Sahay

2004

Information Systems Research

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This paper focuses on understanding the knowledge politics that inhibit effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) for managing the land degradation problem in India. It is argued that the issues of power and politics of knowledge are ubiquitously embedded in representation of the problem domain and the technology itself. Addressing these issues is an inseparable part of the challenges to information systems design and implementation. Theoretical perspective is first developed around political considerations involved in the co-construction and use of knowledge domains relevant to the design of GIS applications to address land degradation. This theoretical framework is drawn upon to analyze the politics of representation‚ the politics of invisible work‚ and the politics of institutions observed in the case of a GIS implementation in rural India. The analysis also demonstrates how the insidious impacts of such politics may be somewhat mitigated by creating socio-material networks to cultivate communicative action that leads to better design and technology acceptance by the end users.

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Knowledge, NGOs and Networks

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2003

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Non-governmental development organisations (NODOs) are increasingly adopting knowledge-based roles such as lobbying, advocacy, policy formulation, research and dialogue facilitation. At the same time, they have on the one hand been criticised for knowledge errors and failures, and on the other been urged to adopt knowledge networking technologies. Building on earlier work which developed a three-dimensional model of knowledge based on contemporary epistemology and cognitive science, this paper develops a knowledge-based view of NODO activity, arguing that there is evidence of a complex range knowledge roles, involving some very demanding informational, epistemic and conceptual challenges. The expertise, skills and resources required for effective knowledge work can be supported by networks and networking technology, but only if deficits as well as benefits are recognised and if informational, epistemic and conceptual capacities are developed alongside technical expertise.

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7. Indigenous Communication and Indigenous Knowledge

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Integrating indigenous and exogenous communication channels and capabilities through community-based armyworm forecasting

Integrating indigenous and exogenous communication channels and capabilities through community-based armyworm forecasting

The Politics of Knowledge in Using GIS for Land Management in India

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