Indigenous Soil Classifications
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چکیده
Inferior and backward. Only recently has indigenous knowledge (partly) lost these seemingly indelible labels. This development started in the 60's with anthropologists' ethnoscience research and the discovery and publication of 'indigenous knowledge success stories', and continued in the 70's by the development of Farming Systems Research philosophy and the sprouting of formal studies on indigenous knowledge. Nowadays it has lead to many research scientists and extension workers recognizing that rural people in many developing countries have a rich understanding of their resources (Thrupp 1989, Warren 1989).
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