The Role of Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Natural Resource Management in Ngamiland

Ngamiland is a melting pot of ethnicities. Over centuries, various tribal groups, originating from areas with different environmental conditions and diverse political and socio-cultural backgrounds, moved to the Okavango Delta introducing their own particular forms of land use and specialised productive skills. People gradually adapted their resource management patterns to the Delta environment and modified them by assimilating knowledge and survival strategies from surrounding cultures. Hence the indigenous technical knowledge presently found in the area is a conglomerate of different resource management systems.