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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… to Notes explores what is driving the creative combination of reveal traditional folklore. A better methodologies and discusses why understanding of the traditional knowledge complementarity seems to be both essential could be used to …
Publication, 01 January 1997
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
Insight, 25 February 2021
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 An introduction to Participatory Action Development (PAD)
… more time consuming (Lammerink and Wolffers, 1998). The first is than traditional development approaches that an ongoing debate about the sociology of rely on `blueprint' plans and development knowledge (Habermas, 1971). In this debate, experts, participatory … stake in their success. deprived, as opposed to the dominant form of knowledge produced and articulated An approach to community water …
Publication, 01 January 1999
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
… in the hands of those who generated the data – thereby protecting traditional knowledge from external exploitation. The articles in this issue …
Publication, 01 April 2006
Two women talking to each other at a crowded event.
Strengthening local voices in the governance of food systems and the environment
… the economic playing field: inclusive governance that values local knowledge and experience, building local organisations to manage local …
Project, 01 September 2011
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
Insight, 25 April 2013
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Reflect training: numeracy (PLA 52)
… developed based on this understanding. Numeracy is sidelined in many traditional learning processes, and when it is introduced it is usually … environment, and emphasising that both are able to create new knowledge. In a Reflect process, numeracy is understood broadly: it is …
Publication, 01 August 2005
Charting a course for biodiversity and the poor
… to patent an anti-fungal neem derivative commonly used in Indian traditional remedies. The Indian government succeeded in revoking it — … social and environmental safeguards to recognise and respect the knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities on the …
Insight, 22 October 2010
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Is there life after tenure mapping? (PLA 54)
… partial participation – where the community learns to gather traditional knowledge using interviews and sketch mapping, but where all …
Publication, 01 April 2006
Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.
The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices
… awareness of the nutritional value of food, especially indigenous and traditional foods. A photographic exhibition curated by the Sustainable … training about the importance and nutritional value of indigenous and traditional foods, as essential to positively transforming the food … She says: “As a food and diet champion, I would like to transfer my knowledge to as many people in my community as possible.” Hellen Sally …
Insight, 24 October 2019