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Research Papers/Articles
Making the case for Agroecology.

2016

Author(s): Farming Matters Magazine

Agro-ecological farming systems are increasingly seen to have the potential to meet the triple challenges of productivity, sustainability and poverty eradication. Food Chain is an international journal for all those involved in developing the supply of high-quality foods from ‘farm gate to plate’ and those who use food processing to alleviate poverty and hunger.

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Collective intelligence to solve complex health challenges facing Indigenous peoples: organ donation and transplantation

2023

Author(s): Taitht CL, Moser MAJ, McKinney V, Kappel J, Henry R

The collective intelligence of Indigenous peoples regarding end-stage organ failure and organ donation and transplantation is central to improving patient experiences, increasing the number of Indigenous organ donors and recipients, and finding pathways for advancing healthcare reforms that prevent and treat end-stage organ failure.

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The Evolution of a Partnership-Based Breeding Program for Organic Corn

2023

Author(s): Goldstein WA

The partnership approach taken also differs from usual top-down mechanistic breeding approaches in that the methods of breeding entailed holistic attention, learning, and respect for what turned out to be corn plants evolving in symbiogenesis with beneficial microbial partners.

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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

2009

Publisher/Organisation: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, Cornell University

The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) is the world's only peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal focused solely on food- and farming-related community development.

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Indigenous Lakadong Turmeric of Meghalaya and Its Future Prospects.

2023

Author(s): Kumar M R, Kumar D S, Kumar P M, Das S

Turmeric contains two key components: Curcuminoids and essential oils (primarily terpenoids), responsible for the herb’s orange-yellow color and aromatic flavor. These components also have a broad spectrum of bioactivities for which data has been confirmed at all levels of investigation, including in vitro and in vivo tests and human clinical trials.

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AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

2005

Publisher/Organisation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is an internationally peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. The journal aims to present scholarly research on Indigenous worldviews and experiences of decolonization from Indigenous perspectives from around the world.

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This study is a field research report on an investigation into the subject of the indigenous knowledge of time -keeping, as it was of practical importance to the communal organization of agricultural activities in traditional Toba Batak society.

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The study aims to  document the indigenous medical knowledge and practice of among Sundanese community. An exploratory study was conducted on the indigenous medical knowledge of Sundanese community living in Pangalengan, West Java. Most of the medicinal plants reported by key informants and used by the respondents in the research area are already publicly acknowledged for their medicinal properties and also reported in other research settings.

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Indigenous Knowledge: A Native Perspective of Knowing

2021

Author(s): Saefullah K

This book introduces readers with a fundamental concept of Indigenous Knowledge (IK). Unlike other similar books which are describing the anthropological perspective on the subjects, this book provides better understanding about what Indigenous Knowledge is all about. This book elaborates not only evolutionary concept of Indigenous Knowledge which are introduced by many authors and centers of Indigenous Knowledge around the globe, but also a different approach which avoid the use of binary perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge which always confronted with Modern Knowledge.

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Local Knowledge Articles Mapping in Universitas Padjadjaran Journals

2021

Author(s): Margaretha GS, Erwina W, Lusiana E

The results of this research are the development of the number of local knowledge articles in Universitas Padjadjaran which has increased since 2001-2020.West Java is the region that has the highest number of local knowledge articles. The most popular topics are culture and local wisdom.