Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda through Indigenous Knowledge Practice

Taremwa, Nathan Kanuma; Gashumba, Damascene; Butera, Anastase; Ranganathan, T. T.

doi:10.1080/09718923.2016.11893524

Cited by 13 publications

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“…Most smallholder farmers are resource poor farmers who lack resources such as transport to transport sorghum over long distances in search of market. This concur with findings by [39] who reported high transport costs to GMB and affirmed by [44] who indicated that transport cost is a major challenge to smallholder farmers.…”

Section: Constraints To Sorghum Productionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Exploring Constraints and Opportunities for Sorghum Production in Dry Regions of Zimbabwe

Silas

Nyasha²,

Tapiwa

2021

NJAS

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The objective of the study was to explore the constraints and opportunities for small-holder sorghum farmers in dry regions.Two hundred and fifty farmers were sampled by using the simple random and snowball sampling to provide the information that answered the research questions. Questionnaire and interviews were used as the research instruments. Out of 250 participants, 80% were males and 20% were females showing that more males were selected for the research. Data was coded and processed using excel. Descriptive statistics were used to describe results. Of all the participants, 4% were in the age range of 25-30 years, 10% in the age range of 31-35 years, 14% in the age range of 36-40 years, 16% in the age range of 41-45 years and 56% in the age range of 46 years and above. Out of all the participants, 20% attained primary education while 68% had attained secondary education. Only 12% had tertiary education. Results indicated availability of resources (60%) such as certified seed, fertilizers, herbicides and draught power as the major constraint in the production of sorghum. Lack of technical knowhow (20%) of sorghum production, poor farming methods (9.6%) such as mono-cropping, Striga weed (12%), outbreak of fall armyworm (14.4%) and marketing of produce (8%) were also amongst the major constraints indicated by most participants. 66% of the 250 participants showed that they produce sorghum due to its drought tolerant nature. Beer brewing was just slightly above half (52%) whilst making mealie meal was slightly below half (48%). Lack of knowledge, resources and poor markets hindered sorghum production in dry regions. Farmers were using retained seeds which are populated and affected by diseases and this contributed to low yields. Opportunities such as reducing poverty, food insecurity and income generation drives some farmers to venture into sorghum production.

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Section: Constraints To Sorghum Productionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Exploring Constraints and Opportunities for Sorghum Production in Dry Regions of Zimbabwe

Silas

Nyasha²,

Tapiwa

2021

NJAS

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“…The decline in per capita consumption has been influenced by changes in consumer habits, rate of urbanization, time and energy required to prepare food based on sorghum, condition of marketing facilities, processing techniques, stability of supplies and relative availability of sorghum products (Macgarry, 1994;Taremwa, Gashumba, Butera, & Ranganathan, 2016). These changes in consumption habits have been largely concentrated in urban areas (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 1995).…”

Section: Consumer Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their income sources are limited and restricted to agricultural production and hence strategies that require capital. Therefore, it can be noted that small grain farmers face a problem of transporting their harvest to the market and also lack of storage facilities by the buyers, pose as a challenge to small grains as a strategy to climate change (Taremwa et al, 2016).…”

Section: Lack Of Transportation and Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

Small grains “resistance”? Making sense of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers’ cropping choices and patterns within a climate change context

Phiri

Dube

Moyo

et al. 2019

Cogent Social Sciences

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“…Abah Ukat also explained that another natural sign that is often trusted by the community is a sign of disaster, such as a very strong wind blowing in the rainy season. Taremwa et al (2016) said indigenous knowledge about weather patterns that often occur in Rwanda becomes knowledge to predict how and when natural disasters will occur. This prediction makes them alert so that they can plan disaster mitigation early.…”

Section: Signs Of Calamity and Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

Sundanese Indigenous Knowledge in Sindang Barang Cultural Village – Bogor

Nurislaminingsih

Laksono²,

Yudha³

2022

IJHS

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The Sindang Barang Cultural Village was formed by the descendants of customary holders who live in Bogor to revitalize Sundanese culture. This is useful for preserving customs so that people can continue to live the Sundanese way (using indigenous knowledge and sticking to local wisdom) even though they live in the modern era. This study aims to identify the Sundanese indigenous knowledge possessed by them. This study uses a qualitative thematic analysis approach to identify it. The results of this study indicate that the themes of indigenous knowledge owned by the society are village landscape, agriculture, natural signs, health, and batik. The village landscape has sub-themes landscape of land and building position. The sub-themes of agriculture are the type of paddy, fertilizer, planting time, magic guard, and granary. Natural signs have the sub-themes of changing days and signs of calamity and disaster. The sub-theme of health is herbs. Batik has a sub-theme of motifs and natural dyes. This study found that some of the indigenous knowledge about herbs and batik had been lost from the people's memory.

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Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda through Indigenous Knowledge Practice

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Exploring Constraints and Opportunities for Sorghum Production in Dry Regions of Zimbabwe

Exploring Constraints and Opportunities for Sorghum Production in Dry Regions of Zimbabwe

Small grains “resistance”? Making sense of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers’ cropping choices and patterns within a climate change context

Sundanese Indigenous Knowledge in Sindang Barang Cultural Village – Bogor

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