
Indigenous soil and water conservation It is used to describe a practice or an idea which has either been generated locally or which has
been introduce and then transformed and incorporated by the local people into their system to
improve their livelihood.
Indigenous knowledge refers to the perception that farmers have about their natural and social
environment, which they use to adopt, adapt and develop technologies to their local context. The
rationale for undertaking certain traditional practices among others is recognition of problems by
the local people. Indigenous practices are aimed at arresting the local priority problems.
Although they survived the challenges of changing bio-physical and socio-economic
environments through a continuous responsive changes and adaptations, indigenous practices are
not perfect
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