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From knowing where animals live, to which plants provide what medicinal benefits, communities around the world hold expert levels of knowledge on their local environments. In general, scientific ...

Environmental monitoring and long-term research produce detailed understanding, but its collective effort does not add up to ‘the environment’ and therefore may be difficult to relate to. Local ...

"Although Indigenous and local knowledge systems are inherently adaptive and remarkably resilient, their foundations have been and continue to be compromised by colonial settlement, land dispossession ...

Integrating the accumulated experiences and observations of farmers into formal soil management frameworks has emerged as a critical pathway towards sustainable agriculture. Local knowledge offers ...

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