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STUDENT NUMBER :
MODULE CODE : NST2601
TASK TYPE : EXAM
YEAR : 2021
, Question 1
1.1. (a) Indigenous knowledge system = Are local and community based, providing the socio-
cultural information necessary for community survival and flourishing within the community's
local environmental, geographical and cultural context. IKS facilitates communication and
decision-making within a community.
(b)Traditional Ecological Knowledge = Is a cumulative body of knowledge, practice and belief
evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural
transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and
with their environment.
1.2. Indigenous knowledge generates value that is currently not recognized and compensated
adequately, and its holders are not adequately rewarded when their knowledge is
appropriated by the system currently in place. Indigenous knowledge can help to meet the
broader objectives of society, for instance conserving the environment, developing
sustainable agriculture and ensuring food security, while its protection encourages the
maintenance of traditional practices and lifestyles.
The indigenous knowledge bill encourages new developments in the management of cross-
cultural knowledge transactions and also encourages the protection of indigenous knowledge
for conservation. The conservation of cultural diversity is considered a precondition for the
conservation of biological diversity. In addition, the indigenous knowledge bill is an enabling
instrument for the indigenous communities of South Africa to exercise their sovereign and
inalienable rights, formal and/or informal, over their indigenous knowledge and related
intellectual and cultural knowledge. These rights are also exercised through indigenous and
customary laws, practices and values.
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for local level decision-making in food security, human
and animal health, education, NRM, and other vital economic and social activities. Local
knowledge is a huge, largely untapped, resource that can be removed from its context and
applied and replicated in different places like formal science. Proponents of this perspective
have scientifically validated IK or sought similarities and complementarities between their
knowledge and farmers’ knowledge. Farming Systems Approaches and Participatory
Research and Development largely follow this thinking.
STUDENT NUMBER :
MODULE CODE : NST2601
TASK TYPE : EXAM
YEAR : 2021
, Question 1
1.1. (a) Indigenous knowledge system = Are local and community based, providing the socio-
cultural information necessary for community survival and flourishing within the community's
local environmental, geographical and cultural context. IKS facilitates communication and
decision-making within a community.
(b)Traditional Ecological Knowledge = Is a cumulative body of knowledge, practice and belief
evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural
transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and
with their environment.
1.2. Indigenous knowledge generates value that is currently not recognized and compensated
adequately, and its holders are not adequately rewarded when their knowledge is
appropriated by the system currently in place. Indigenous knowledge can help to meet the
broader objectives of society, for instance conserving the environment, developing
sustainable agriculture and ensuring food security, while its protection encourages the
maintenance of traditional practices and lifestyles.
The indigenous knowledge bill encourages new developments in the management of cross-
cultural knowledge transactions and also encourages the protection of indigenous knowledge
for conservation. The conservation of cultural diversity is considered a precondition for the
conservation of biological diversity. In addition, the indigenous knowledge bill is an enabling
instrument for the indigenous communities of South Africa to exercise their sovereign and
inalienable rights, formal and/or informal, over their indigenous knowledge and related
intellectual and cultural knowledge. These rights are also exercised through indigenous and
customary laws, practices and values.
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for local level decision-making in food security, human
and animal health, education, NRM, and other vital economic and social activities. Local
knowledge is a huge, largely untapped, resource that can be removed from its context and
applied and replicated in different places like formal science. Proponents of this perspective
have scientifically validated IK or sought similarities and complementarities between their
knowledge and farmers’ knowledge. Farming Systems Approaches and Participatory
Research and Development largely follow this thinking.
