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Traditional knowledge and biocultural diversity: learning from tribal communities for sustainable development in northeast India

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  • Ranjay Singh
  • Jules Pretty
  • Sarah Pilgrim

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This paper presents a synthesis of grassroots activities designed to promote the learning and conservation of traditional knowledge and related biocultural resources among Adi, Monpa and Khasi tribes of northeast India. The results indicate that the participation of knowledge holders in various village level activities can enhance the promotion of traditional practices, learning of knowledge and conservation of related resources. Knowledge holders of varying age groups and social systems have many notable traditional practices that provide promising solutions to current challenges. The promotion of traditional knowledge-based products can also facilitate the conservation of resources and the subsistence survival of people. Strong multi-level networks between all stakeholders are needed to ensure the sustainability of traditional knowledge and conservation of biocultural resources of communities of northeast India.

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  • Ranjay Singh & Jules Pretty & Sarah Pilgrim, 2010. "Traditional knowledge and biocultural diversity: learning from tribal communities for sustainable development in northeast India," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(4), pages 511-533.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:53:y:2010:i:4:p:511-533
    DOI: 10.1080/09640561003722343
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    1. Salomi Jugli & Jharna Chakravorty & Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow, 2020. "Zootherapeutic uses of animals and their parts: an important element of the traditional knowledge of the Tangsa and Wancho of eastern Arunachal Pradesh, North-East India," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 4699-4734, June.
    2. Leach, Melissa & Nisbett, Nicholas & Cabral, Lídia & Harris, Jody & Hossain, Naomi & Thompson, John, 2020. "Food politics and development," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    3. Lopamudra Patnaik Saxena, 2020. "Community Self-Organisation from a Social-Ecological Perspective: ‘ Burlang Yatra’ and Revival of Millets in Odisha (India)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-27, March.
    4. Abdelillah Hamdouch & Bertrand Zuindeau, 2010. "Sustainable development, 20 years on: methodological innovations, practices and open issues," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(4), pages 427-438.

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