Indigenous Agricultural Practices Project
What are Indigenous Agricultural
Practices (IAP's)?
What is being done to protect
the precious Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge?
Contribute to the
CaribbeanOrganics.net Indigenous Agriculture Project
What are Indigenous Agricultural Practices (IAP's)?
Indigenous Agricultural Practices are those methodologies and techniques
used in the application of indigenous practical knowledge on agriculture,
botany, and animal husbandry practices. In the Caribbean Region,
rural farmers, especially the older ones, form a highly valuable information
source for indigenous knowledge on agriculture, botany and animal husbandry
practices. This agricultural heritage plays an important
role in community life and folklore, but is often poorly or not at all
documented and passed on only through speech and practical experience.
This prevents the sharing of information to the wider community or region,
and also increases the risk that knowledge, which in many cases was accumulated
and perfected during the last centuries, will be lost in the
near future.
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What is being done to protect the precious
Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge?
ECO Project Ltd. has recently embarked on a study of the “Indigenous
Agricultural Practices in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.” to prevent
the precious knowledge that was accumulated over several hundred years
from vanishing. Farmers from various fields of knowledge
and different communities will be interviewed and the collected information
will help to create a so far unique booklet as well as
a sub-website and a video. This will help to make the techniques available
to all stakeholders and future generations. Applications for funding of
this project have been made to the Inter American Development Bank, the
Embassy of the Netherlands (Trinidad and Tobago) and the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations who already expressed their genuine
interest to support the project.
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Contribute to the CaribbeanOrganics.net Indigenous Agriculture
Project
If you would be interested in contributing to the project (technical
or financial assistance welcome) or if you are aware of any interesting
practices, please email to: info@caribbeanorganics.net
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