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