Unlocking the promise of indigenous knowledge to combat climate change
As custodians of local resources including wetlands, chiefs should be consulted before boreholes are drilled.
By Charles Dhewa
Sep. 25, 2024
Exploring climate change as the universal language of communication
The indigenous knowledge systems are the traditional ecological knowledge that is community based and driven.
By Peter Makwanya
Sep. 16, 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
‘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
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
Politics should not undermine socio-economic development
Some may have big farms but have no clue how to unlock value from the land after spending years in government and Parliament.
By Charles Dhewa
Apr. 5, 2023
The curse of imported knowledge, investment models
Instead of relying on imported equipment, knowledge and innovations, indigenous knowledge should be given an important role in development.
By Charles Dhewa
Mar. 8, 2023
