Indigenous fruits are considered to be part of the diet mostly by people in rural communities of Zimbabwe, but they are still being underutilized. They can be eaten raw or processed into different products dating long back. There are various indigenous food post-harvest handling methods that ...
Conservation and sustainability management of AnGR is important to rural development, food security, and the environment (Thiruvenkadan, 2018; Assefa et al., 2021). In Southern African countries, the lack of accurate characterization of indigenous chickens makes it challenging to understand their dive...
In Niger, poultry breeding is dominated by family poultry, which accounts for 96% of all local breeds combined, compared with 3% for modern breeds. In the total of indigenous poultry Chicken represent 55% (RGAC, 2008). This activity contributes to the food security of populations, particularly...
In Zimbabwe collection and marketing indigenous fruits was the task of women and children, but this changed where large-scale commercial markets were developed, for example to the Zambian brewing industry. Wild fruits were nutritionally valuable, especially during seasons when other foods were scanty ...
Numerous studies have noted a strong social gradient in many types of ill health. In particular, people in more deprived areas tend to be less healthy than... J Pearce,R Barnett,S Kingham - 《Health & Place》 被引量: 46发表: 2006年 Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities (review)...
To combat the erosion of Indigenous peoples’ food systems, Slow Food International, Slow Food Uganda and Slow Food Kenya have drawn up and delivered the Regional Academy for Trainers on Agroecological and Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems. Concluding in December 2023, this six-month initiative desi...
forecast data (Filho et al.2023). Zimbabwean farmers believe that meteorological weather forecasts are too general and unreliable, but they also find their IK less reliable due to climate variability (Jiri et al.2015). The use of IK in weather forecasting has been vital for the survival of ...
Revitalizing indigenous ways of maintaining food security in a changing climate: review of the evidence base from Africa Purpose Against a milieu of fragmented research that documents indigenous practices related to food security, and the heterogeneous settings from which the... N Chanza,W Musakwa -...
Use of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Scientific Methods for Climate Forecasting in Southern Zambia and North Western Zimbabwe. The semi-arid areas of Southern Africa receive low and erratic rainfall which varies in both seasons and from year to year resulting in food insecurity. Few of the small...
Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Thailand involves animal breeding trends to forecast seasonal changes and climate risks [55]. These Indigenous strategies are structural and non-structural DRM measures [64] acquired through observational techniques, a legitimate learning theory in education [65] to ...