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Indigenous Knowledge: Explore

Find more information on the web and read more about the topic of Indigenous Knowledge. Have more interesting documents and web links? Write to admin@dlist-benguela.org.

Indigenous knowledge systems in South Africa, development of digital libraries and implications for benefit sharing and intellectual property. http://www.commons-sense.org/presentation/mosimege/Mosimege.pdf
Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
http://www.indilinga.org.za/ Contact: nmkabela@hotmail.com
Indigenous Knowledge in Natural disaster Reduction in Africa http://www.environmenttimes.net/article.cfm?pageID=132 - 18k
Protecting indigenous knowledge systems: Mail& Guardian Online www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=247678&area=
/earthyear/earth_features/
African indigenous knowledge systems
www.africahistory.net/AIK.htm - 48k
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives from Southern Africa http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/new_publ/mazonde.htm
The documentation unit and library of the Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development (CIKARD) has so far collected, catalogued, and preserved more than 4,000 documents pertaining to indigenous knowledge systems from all over the globe.
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/IC/cikard/CIKARDactprog.html
Nara – Fruit for development of the !Khuiseb Topnaar http://www.namibiana.de/index.cfm?action=ViewDetails&itemid=1850
Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants finding application in the conventional healthcare system.
http://www.africandrugs.com
Indigenous Knowledge on the South African Landscape: Potentials for Agricultural Development
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=XVpFrhbpKcoC&dq=
indigenous+knowledge+system+in+south+africa&pg
Download the course materials for the Cross-Regional Distance Learning Course on “Using Indigenous Knowledge for Millennium Development Goals” (2005) at http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/dlc/DLC%20files/IK_course_materials.htm