Keywords: International, Indonesia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Venezuela, English, Indigenous, development, environment, guide, publication
Methods of incorporating Indigenous Knowledge systems in development work. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) refers to the unique, traditional, local knowledge existing within and developed around the specific conditions of women and men indigenous to a particular geographic area.
The development of IK systems, covering all aspects of life, including management of the natural environment, has been a matter of survival to the peoples who generated these systems. Such knowledge systems are cumulative, representing generations of experiences, careful observations, and trial-and-error experiments.
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