First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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This belongs to us
The fishers of the Indonesian island village of Lamalera have an age-old tradition of whaling that mixes social, cultural and economic practices to sustain livelihoods.
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Remembering the source
The traditional Vietnamese system of social and community organization, called van chai, can be the basis of a viable fisheries management system.
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How deep are our treaties
Faced with the commodification of food and livelihoods in the fishery of Canada
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Community resilience in Nepal
Poor, marginalized people in rural areas of Nepal, who depend solely on natural resources and climatesensitive sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries for their livelihoods, are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Most farmers depend on monsoon rain for crop cultivation, so changing rainfall patterns could have devastating results.
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Plant-based pesticide for control of Helicoverpa armigera on Cucumis sativus
Agricultural crops are attacked by many insects and pests. The world food production is adversely affected by insects and pests during crop growth, harvest and storage. The Indian tradition of controlling or repelling insects/pests has ancient roots in Sanskrit literature.
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Reinforcing traditional Indian construction with modern structures A planning
Traditional Indian structures exist beyond all ages and can be utilized by the people of every generation, since the truths of all times could also be expressed as the truth of present time.
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Reinforcing traditional Indian construction with modern construction-Investigation-Execution phase
In India, the structures built even in BC stand as monuments reflecting our involvement in construction. But in recent years, with the predominant influence of the West, mainly due to industrialization and technological innovations, we have started looking
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Traditional foods and beverages of Ladakh
Ladakh, truly described as high altitude cold-arid desert is one of the far most eastern regions of J&K state, India. Because of unfavourable and hostile environment prevailing over the region, cultivation is limited to a very less scale (both time and place). Under these conditions, one of the major reasons behind human habitation is the ingenuity of local
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Indigenous knowledge in conservation agriculture
Conservation agriculture is a concept for resource-saving agricultural crop production that strives to achieve acceptable profits together with high and sustained production levels while concurrently conserving the environment.
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Incorporation of new construction material into indigenous technological knowledge?A case study of V shaped fish trap
Various fish traps made of bamboo and other natural construction materials using indigenous knowledge systems are traditionally employed to catch small economic fishes in low lying areas of West Bengal and Assam.