The importance of indigenous knowledge in reducing poverty of rural Agrarian households
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): T.G.B.Hart, H.J.Vorster
KEYWORDS: AGRICULTURE, KNOWLEDGE SHARING, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, RURAL COMMUNITIES, RURAL COMMUNITIES
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4068
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6574
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6574
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Abstract
the report starts by describing the three different types of agriculture that are currently practiced worldwide and looks at an international understanding of indigenous knowledge, while raking not of the current ways in which indigenous knowledge is considered for the purposes of integrating it with scientific knowledge.-
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