Reinventing Indigenous Knowledge

The Indonesian Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Farmers Experiences From Traditional to Eco-Agriculture

Klappentext des Buches

Indigenous farming communities in Indonesia and
around the world have probably lived the way they
always have: relying on their indigenous knowledge
and skills they learned from their parents and
neighbors.
The search for miracle seeds, begun in 1940's, was
part of a major effort to fight world hunger. The
dwarf Mexican wheat, for example, could produce
quadruple the amount of harvest, and similarly the
miracle rice seed—IR8—could produce more than double
the traditional rates of rice production, both with
application of urea. The Green Revolution quickly
replaced traditional agriculture. In fact, it
destroyed the existing sustainable system of
Indonesian agriculture and replaced it with
fuel-based agricultural system, heavily dependent on
manufactured chemicals. On the contrary, IPM trained
farmers to observe and collect field data and conduct
agro-ecological system analyses that prepared farmers
to think critically and to make smart decisions about
their crops.
This book should bring some light on valuable
discussion of the large, indeed global, problem of
food production, in the long forgotten indigenous
knowledge systems on a meaningful local level.

VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K.
ISBN 978-3-639-03913-9, Paperback, 244 Seiten