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Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in Tanzania: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Adapt with Climate Change

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Indigenous knowledge (IK) is facts, information, and skills owned by the local communities around the globe. This knowledge evolved overtime from daily experience and modified to the local culture and environment. The aim of this chapter is to advance the position that IK present crucial opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania to adapt with climate change impacts. In African context, the history of knowledge production did not start with the coming of western people and the future of IK should not depend exclusively on Western Knowledge and other worldviews. The African societies like many other traditional societies globally have established their own sets of experiences and explanations concerning the surrounding environment they live in. The chapter fundamentally strives to document key adaptation practices entrenched into the social-cultural contexts of the Haya people, which are deemed useful in dealing with climate change impacts.

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Theodory, T.F. (2022). Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in Tanzania: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Adapt with Climate Change. In: Mtapuri, O. (eds) African Perspectives on Poverty, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5856-4_14

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