NAKURU, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Joseph Chemaina, a member of the indigenous Ogiek community, has for the last 61 years lived at the foot of Kenya's largest water tower, the Mau Forest Complex. When he was growing up, community elders would hold regular meetings with the youth to teach the...
KenyaTourismSocioeconomic developmentIndigenous knowledge plays a pivotal socioeconomic development role in indigenous communities. In Kenya, one of the economic sectors where indigenous knowledge can be applied is tourism which is among the country's major income earners besides tea and horticulture. ...
Indigenous knowledge plays a pivotal socioeconomic development role in indigenous communities. In Kenya, one of the economic sectors where indigenous knowledge can be applied is tourism which is among the country's major income earners besides tea and horticulture. This study investigated the potential...
In many rural parts of Kenya, women carry water and firewood on their backs with support of ropes buckled over their heads. And these women are her main clients. "I have sold these ropes to women from Central Kenya, Western and Rift Valley. Some buy wholesale to sell to others and it ...
In roughly the last 50 years, the Ecuadorian Amazon has become the epicenter of petroleum production in Ecuador. As oil companies attempt to exploit more and more of the rainforest, they have encroached on indigenous lands, leading to violations of indigenous rights through environmental destruction...
In recent years, the right to food among Kenya's indigenous peoples has been challenged by climate change and state interventions that have resulted in landloss and resettlement. Past policies aimed at pastoral development — such as the Maasai Group Ranches — have failed in light of their ...
Indigenous and Local Knowledge Practices and Innovations for Enhancing Food Security Under Climate Change: Examples from Mijikenda Communities in Coastal KenyaClimate change adversely affects agricultural production in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) such as Kenya. This can have important ...
In Queensland, Indigenous mathematics performance lags at least two years behind that of non-Indigenous students (Queensland Studies Authority, 2004). This low performance is exacerbated in remote communities where teachers are generally inexperienced, non-Indigenous, usually stay in the school for two ...
Itongwa said that impacts of a new global biodiversity framework will be felt in Africa subject to mainstreaming proposals from the indigenous people, variously regarded as custodians of nature. In addition, the indigenous communities in Africa have been at the forefront of sustainable utilization of...
Energy development in Indigenous lands has been historically controversial from socio–ecological and ethical perspectives. Energy-development projects often privilege the knowledge of a narrow group, while, simultaneously, Indigenous knowledge and alternative epistemologies have been understudied in academic ener...