INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Brown Planthopper, Holism
16 Dec 2012
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Impact of green revolution on bali rice cultivation system. Continuous cropping of high yielding rice varieties (ir8, ir36: water management and distribution system, pest management system, mono-crop of new varieties vulnerable to pest (brown plant-hopper and tungro virus) In bali, it was mandatory to switch from traditional rice crops to these new rice crop strains. Experiential knowledge gained from observation, engagement and interaction with natural and social environment in a place: evolves over time. Cumulative body of knowledge, practice and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmission. Different and sometimes conflicting knowledge for different people/interests in community (women, men, wealth) Farming as performance vs. technical activity or planned sequence of events. Fram transfer of technology (like green revolution) to participatory development. From peasants as backwards, to peasants as rational, to farmers as experiments and as scientific collaborators.
