Indigenous Knowledge - The Zimbabwe Independent

Topic : Indigenous Knowledge

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

Unlocking the promise of indigenous knowledge to combat climate change

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

Exploring climate change as the universal language of communication

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

Benefits of integrating food systems with education

‘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

Of agroecology and related terminologies that hogged the limelight in 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