scholarly journals Participatory Mapping as a Didactic and Auxiliary Tool for Learning Community Integration, Technology Transference, and Natural Resource Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Ricardo Eaton-González ◽  
Jorge Andrade-Sánchez ◽  
Tatiana Montaño-Soto ◽  
Paola Andrade-Tafoya ◽  
Diana Brito-Jaime ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Participatory Mapping

Participatory mapping is a tool for community work linked to natural resource management. It is an auxiliary for diagnosis and data acquisition from communities and their natural resources. In Baja California, there are several indigenous communities, some close to urban areas but still unknown to most people in cities as well as visitors. These communities are fighting to restore and maintain their language, tradition, territory, biological, and cultural diversity. This work was carried out by linking members of the indigenous community of San Jose de la Zorra with bachelor’s and graduate degree students, to obtain information on the biological, cultural, and economic activities of the community through participatory mapping. The learning experience was significant for all participants; although it was not the intention in this study, students had the unique opportunity to exchange information and learn culture and biodiversity from indigenous people. The indigenous community was involved in field data acquisition and the use of some information and communication technology resources developed for this approach, and used it for natural resource management and decision making. The main results of this experience were wide format printed maps that were placed on several sites inside and outside the community, digital mapping that gave information about natural, cultural, and economic resources of the community for local and foreign visitors, and technology transference to solve problems identified by the community.

scholarly journals Agrobiodiversity and Natural Resource Management in Traditional Agricultural Systems of Northeast India

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Wishfully Mylliemngap
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East

North-East India, which falls under the Indian Eastern Himalayan region and forms part of two global biodiversity hotspots, is well-known for its rich diversity of flora, fauna, cultures and traditional knowledge systems. Agriculture is the main occupation of the communities living in this region supplemented by utilization of wild useful species from the nearby forests. Traditional agriculture in North-East India follows mixed cropping pattern through multi-cropping, crop rotation, use of multipurpose nitrogen (N)-fixing trees, along with protection of semi-domesticated and wild biodiversity, including medicinal plants, wild edible fruits and vegetables, fodder plants and other useful species. Presently, there has been a gradual shifting from subsistence cultivation to commercial agriculture driven by market forces and modernization, leading to transition from traditional to intensive agriculture and monoculture of cash crops. This has resulted in reduced cultivation of local crop varieties and disappearance of the associated traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Therefore, the present study attempts to review the contribution of traditional agricultural practices to agrobiodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management. Relevant traditional practices such as shifting (Jhum) cultivation systems, bamboo-drip irrigation, paddy-cum-fish cultivation, traditional agroforestry systems of different Indigenous communities residing in different states of North-East India were mentioned in this review. It is undeniable that TEK was developed by communities through many centuries by trial-and-error methods to conform to the local climate, topography, ecology and socio-cultural relevance to the concerned Indigenous communities. This knowledge, therefore, has a great scope for improvement by integration with scientific knowledge for transforming into sustainable agricultural systems in the face of climate change adaptation and mitigation of the vulnerable mountain communities of the Himalayan region.

“We Eat with Different Spoons these Days”: The Maintenance of Pastoralism as a Social Formation in the Sahara and Sahel

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Franklin C. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Civil Conflicts ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Customary Practices

Despite the fatalistic rhetoric articulated by Western media and some experts, pastoralists have not disappeared. Drought, disease, famines, civil conflicts, theft, and banditry have certainly undermined livelihoods and forced families of Arab, Tuareg, Toubou and Fulani to settle and seek out opportunities that are not compatible with pastoralism, particularly in urban areas. This situation is not necessarily permanent and varies case-by-case and more significantly generation-to-generation. Some ex-pastoralists abandoned hopes of restocking their flocks but plan for some of their children to become future pastoralists. In addition, despite sedentarization, many retained customary practices of natural resource management, social norms and behaviors and find in the urban areas other pre-capitalist practices that are compatible with their means of everyday tasks and performances. Using the analyses of Tom Brass, Deborah Bryceson and David Harvey an argument is made that while pastoralists have lost their herds and shifted from their customary economy into a proletarian-capitalist one, the path is not unilinear and in fact, is fluid with pastoralists shifting from one to the other in times of dearth and prosperity.

Natural resource management in changing climate – reflections from indigenous Jharkhand

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nafisa Priti Sanga ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Ranjan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Food And Nutrition

Purpose – Addressing probable complexities of climate change on rural livelihoods, food security, and poverty reduction, requires mainstreaming of cross-sectoral interventions and adaptations into existing frameworks. Indigenous communities due to their isolation, reluctance to current practices, and knowledge deprivation are difficult to reach by many developmental programs. The purpose of this paper is to identify relevant adaptations from indigenous rural Jharkhand (India), applicable to improving livelihoods through integrated natural resource management (NRM). Prospects of rainwater harvest and management for supporting local rural livelihoods were also examined. Design/methodology/approach – Tested and applicable models of participatory research methods widespread in sociological research were used. Focussed group discussions and structured interviews were conducted for primary data collection from micro-watershed units of this study. Findings – In-situ soil and water conservation methods showed increased availabilities of freshwater both for food and non-food consumption in the area. Construction of rural infrastructure and land husbandry practices improved agricultural productivity and resulted in subsequent reductions in women's drudgeries. Culture fishery provided ample scope for livelihood diversification, food and nutrition security of households. Overall, micro-watershed area developmental approach improved food and nutrition securities, generated employment opportunities, improved agricultural productivity, diversified livelihoods and were widely accepted by communities. Originality/value – Creating greater sense of ownership among grass-root communities was an important thrust behind the success of this particular project. By entrusting tribal communities with fund management, rural planning, and execution of various interventions, a successful replicable model was produced, which has wider community implications extending beyond societies and geographies.

scholarly journals Identifying Environmental and Natural Resource Management Conflict Potential Using Participatory Mapping

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1458-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Brown ◽  
Katja Kangas ◽  
Artti Juutinen ◽  
Anne Tolvanen
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Participatory Mapping
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document