Role of Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Indigenous Communities in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and sustainable development are very closely linked. The indigenous knowledge systems of the peoples of the South constitute the world largest reservoir of knowledege of the diverse species of plant and animal life on earth. For many centuries, their indigenous agricultural systems have utilized practices and techniques which embody, what one scientist has ca...

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

1 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Sustainable Water Future Programme, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4 Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 5 Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, 6 In...

Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plant use by traditional healers in Oshikoto region, Namibia

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to establish a regional profile of the indigenous knowledge system (IKS) for medicinal plant use and cultural practices associated with the healing process of these plants by traditional healers in the Oshikoto region, Namibia. METHODS An ethnobotanical survey was undertaken to collect information from traditional healers during September and October...

The Nexus between Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in Nigeria: A Cultural Inhibition to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The world leaders agreed to make the world a better place by year 2030 through the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. This however cannot be achieved in Nigeria except we are proactive about some cultural practices that negatively affect the girl child.  Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) are two deep-rooted Harmful Traditional Practices (HTPs) that have prevai...