Why cultural lens are required in managing the environment
Therefore, local and indigenous communities have reasons to conserve forests and keep them intact as ways of managing them through cultural attachments and worldviews.
By Peter Makwanya
Jul. 22, 2024
Making agroecology and its products more consumer-centric
Many African communities know their food is nutritious but may not express it in the language of balanced diet or any other nutrition terms.
By Charles Dhewa
Jun. 19, 2024
Benefits of integrating food systems with education
Knowledge around appropriate food preservation technologies can be embedded at industrial parks occupied by the young generation who are attached to colleges and universities.
By Charles Dhewa
May. 8, 2024
Toward protection of indigenous trees
From the beginnings of civilisation, man has altered environmental processes as he dug into the organic store of the planet's ecosystems.
By Tinashe Elvis Chikodzi
Apr. 15, 2024
‘Films can best explain climate change’
Zibusiso Condry Mabonisa — who is seeking funds for his next film, told Newsday Life & Style that, as a researcher specialising on IKS, African culture, tradition and norms, producing films
By Margaret Lubinda
Jan. 9, 2024
Of agroecology and related terminologies that hogged the limelight in 2023
As a proponent of agroecology, eMKambo has been seized with contextualising agroecology so that farming communities do not continue to see it as a foreign invention.
By Charles Dhewa
Dec. 20, 2023
Trading in raw commodities generates more knowledge than processed food
This can trigger appropriate investments to sustain maximum production. In such production zones, gluts cause much physical wastage as well as economic losses due to suppressed prices.
By Charles Dhewa
Jun. 21, 2023
Enriching climate change discourses with indigenous knowledge perspectives
Although largely undocumented, most African communities have traditionally protected IKS through their own structures such as capacities within the old generation.
By Charles Dhewa
May. 26, 2023
Enriching climate change discourse with indigenous knowledge perspectives
Fortunately, most rural African communities still have elders who can be considered generators, preservers and conveyors of IKS.
By Charles Dhewa
Apr. 26, 2023
