Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Settlement: a perspective

from SouthAsia

Nripal AdhikaryKathmandu University

Rationale• Farming in more than one area to

minimize risks

• Leave productive land for farming

• Dedicating certain areas to local deities for protection

• Terrace farming to minimize landslides

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smaller is sustainable

Death of agriculture

• Policies are killing agriculture

• Alienation from the soil

• Migration to the foreign land

• Modern slaves of consumerism

Farmers• “…, a kind of anonymous historical raw

material which, like the soil itself, was given from—used, controlled, and finally rendered historical by the identifiable social forces of the minority...”

• are now making their desires loud and clear