Barriers to Accessing and Managing Indigenous and External Agricultural Knowledge in Tanzania
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Presentation by Edda Tandi Lwoga (Sokoine University of Agriculture) at the IAALD 2010 World Congress - 26-29 April 2010, Montpellier, France
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Barriers to Accessing and Managing Indigenous and External Agricultural Knowledge in Tanzania
- 1. Patrick Ngulube Professor (University of South Africa, South Africa) Edda Tandi Lwoga PhD (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Christine Stilwell Professor (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)
- 15. Thank you for your attention! Edda Tandi Lwoga PhD (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, tlwoga@suanet.ac.tz) Patrick Ngulube PhD (University of South Africa, South Africa, [email_address] ) Christine Stilwell PhD (University of KwaZulu, South Africa, [email_address] )
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- Indigenous knowledge (IK) is used as a basis for local level decision making process in various aspects such as food preparation, agriculture, natural resource management, health, and various activities - Farmers predominantly in developing countries including Tanzania have planned agricultural production by using their IK to ensure food security and sustainable agricultural productivity over centuries Agriculture is the important sector in the economies of most African countries. In Tanzania, the economy depends on agriculture, which accounts for more than 25.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), provides 30.9 percent of exports, and employs 70 percent of the work force (United Republic of Tanzania - However, IK is mainly preserved in the memories of elders whose knowledge disappears when they die of old age, and thus IK has been lost at a high rate. The dominant information management system in developing countries including Tanzania processes codified knowledge and information from research institutes, universities, and laboratories, and thus little room has been left for IK to be incorporated into the rural information system At the same time, research shows that the more the local people experiment with external technologies and knowledge, the more they strengthen their indigenous knowledge and practices However, there is still lack of access to external knowledge in Tanzania despite the fact that it receives most of the attention due to weak linkages between research, extension and farmers Information and communications technologies (ICTs) can enhance access to relevant external knowledge and the management of IK in the local communities However, the digital divide limits local farmers’ managing their knowledge through ICTs, due to many factors, which include infrastructural, technical, regulatory, distributional, social, cultural, and economic issues Further, as local people access and use ICTs to access external knowledge, they tend to ignore their own knowledge and cultures This paper therefore seeks to establish the challenges and opportunities for acquiring, sharing and preserving agricultural IK and accessing external knowledge both physically and through ICTs in the rural areas of developing countries, with a specific focus of Tanzania