Volume 10, Issue 2
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Editorial
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Indigenous Technical Knowledge: Analysis, Implications and Issues
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY This review of the discussions of a workshop analyses indigenous technical knowledge (ITK), examines its potential for rural development, and outlines implications and issues. ITK is compared with institutionally ... -
The Uses of Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY Although ITK has for long been the subject of academic concern, it is only recently that interest has been shown in the possibility of harnessing it for the purpose of development. This paper reviews a selection ... -
Taking Indigenous Technology seriously: The Case of Inter?cropping Techniques in East Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY Although inter?cropping (IC) is widely practised in rainfed tropical small?scale agriculture, agricultural research scientists have not systematically explored the rationale for it and have rarely attempted to ... -
Community Environmental Knowledge in African Rural Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY This paper focuses on the environmental knowledge of farming communities in Africa. How can the researcher investigate such knowledge? How can it be used in the rural development process? The scope and limitations ... -
Appropriate Methodology: An Example using a Traditional African Board Game to measure Farmers' Attitudes and Environmental Images
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY A more conscious effort to develop ‘appropriate’ research methodologies in developing countries is advocated to provide alternatives to conventional social science methods. It is incumbent upon the people asking ... -
Notes on Traditional Knowledge, Modern Knowledge and Rural Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY The body of knowledge, science and techniques used by rural people is well developed and can make an important contribution to development, but there is a conflict between it and modern knowledge. Modern knowledge ... -
A Select Annotated Bibliography: Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Development
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The Exploitation of Indigenous Knowledge or the Indigenous Exploitation of Knowledge: Whose Use of What for What?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)SUMMARY This article argues that concern with technical knowledge which is indigenous to disadvantaged rural groups must go beyond an interest in extracting fragments of it to make marginal improvements to existing types ... -
BOOK REVIEW
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1979)
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