Role of Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Indigenous Institutions in Sustainable Land Management in Western Highlands of Kenya

Shisanya, C.A.

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“…Notes 1. Indigenous institutions are 'those institutions that have emerged in a particular situation or that are practiced or constituted by people who have had a degree continuity of living in, and using resource of an area' (Aggarwal, 2008;Shisanya, 2017). 2.…”

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Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran

Ghorbani

Eskandari-Damaneh

Cotton

et al. 2021

Climate and Development

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Through an in-depth ethnographic case study, we explore water management practices within the Jiroft County province in Iran and discuss the applicability of indigenous knowledge of regional water management to the resource governance of arid regions across the world. We explore, through qualitative analysis, the relationship between community social structure, indigenous knowledge, water management technologies and practices, and water governance rules under conditions of anthropogenic climate change. From participant observational and interview data (n = 32), we find that historically-dependent community roles establish a social contract for water distribution. Cultural conventions establish linked hierarchies of water ownership, profit-sharing and social responsibility; collectively they construct an equitable system of role-sharing, social benefit distribution, socioecological resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of climate change-induced drought. We conclude that the combination of hierarchical land ownership-based water distribution and what we term 'bilateral compensatory mutual assistance' for the lowest-profit agricultural water users, provides a model of spontaneous common pool resource management that bolsters community drought resilience. We use this case to proffer recommendations for adapting other centralized, grey infrastructure and regulatory models of water management from lessons learned from this spontaneous adaptive management case.

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Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran

Ghorbani

Eskandari-Damaneh

Cotton

et al. 2021

Climate and Development

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“…KII interview is used to obtain first-hand and indepth information from the local people [29]. KIIs supplemented the HH questionnaires as they provided data that would not have been captured through the main questionnaires [30].…”

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Landslide Disasters’ Causal/Trigger Factors as Understood by the Indigenous People in Murang’a County, Kenya

Maina

Okaka

Omondi

2022

JGEESI

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Landslides constitute a considerable number of natural disasters globally. Landslides are not new in Kenya yet a dearth of information about the disasters has been reported. Murang’a County presents a unique case of geographical interest because of all the counties traversed by the Aberdare Ranges, it is the only one with the most serious, deadliest and recurrent landslides, especially in the recent past. Most studies on landslide disasters are limited to the scientific assessment and understanding neglecting the indigenous knowledge albeit the fact that indigenous people are affected in one way or another by the disasters. This research aims at highlighting the residents’ indigenous knowledge of landslide causal and trigger factors. Primary data are analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics in IBM-SPSS package. A total of 336 household questionnaires were administered, with an average response rate of 86%, complemented with, 8 Key Informants Interviews and 7 Focus Group Discussion. The key research findings were that indigenous people understood the landslide causal/trigger factors and their contribution landslides occurrences. The identified factors were rainfall, elevation, slope, soils and land-use land-cover. In conclusion, the study recommends the application and integrated of indigenous knowledge with existing scientific knowledge in the understanding of landslide disasters formulation of a policy framework at the county or national government levels. Also, landslides being highly localized, the study recommends further localized research targeting only the households affected by the landslides to gain closer understanding according to their knowledge and experiences through interaction with landslide disasters.

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“…The phenomenon of climate change and environmental stress has the potential to impact on the economic well-being of populations, especially in poor societies. Africa's vulnerability to climate change and environmental stress largely depends on its current and future adaptive capacities (Codjoe, Owusu, and Burkett 2014;Nkomwa et al 2014;Shisanya 2017;Wilson and Inkster 2018). This article uses decolonial thought and pluralism to critique the limits of Western conceptualisations of hegemonic logics of resilience in Africa.…”

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Decolonising the Discourse on Resilience

Amo-Agyemang

2021

International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-,

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This article presents a discursive critique of the Eurocentric paradigms of knowledge production that characterise much of the underlying logics in the age of neoliberal discourses on resilience, pointing out important areas not given sufficient attention. In particular, it highlights the limits of the modernist ontology of resilience, whereby extremely "vulnerable" African communities are encouraged "to become resilient" to climatic disruption and environmental catastrophe and to "bounce back" as rapidly as possible. The article moves the discussion forward, drawing from critical decolonial approaches, in alignment with Indigenous knowledges, to question and rethink meaningful alternative ontologies, ways of knowing and being, in adaptive governance. I argue that the recognition of the plurality of many worlds, rather than one world, highlighted through critical decolonial understandings of epistemic forms with Indigenous knowledges, can be counterposed to Western universality as an innovative ontology to decentre the world order in the problematic dominant development of resilience thinking.

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Role of Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Indigenous Institutions in Sustainable Land Management in Western Highlands of Kenya

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran

Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran

Landslide Disasters’ Causal/Trigger Factors as Understood by the Indigenous People in Murang’a County, Kenya

Decolonising the Discourse on Resilience

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