Answer to Question #234841 in English for nita

Question

 State [3 marks] and describe [9 marks] three sustainable indigenous knowledge practices. 

Answer 1

Shifting cultivation

Shifting cultivation is one of the agricultural knowledge and techniques that local people developed from local-level decision making to address food security needs. These practices were designed to meet sustainability in food production.

Pastoralism

Indigenous pastoralism is a knowledge developed within local groups of pastoralists to reduce food insecurity. This practice enables livestock keeping communities (pastoralists) to ensure sustainable food production contributes to the management of biodiversity.   

Hunting

Hunting was one of the essential practices in indigenous lifestyle, specialized hunter educated recruits in hunting fields, there was restricted access to hunting fields, and hunters ensued protection of habitat to meet sustainable environment and access to food