Local Knowledge and Food Security: The Experience of Magindu Village, Kibaha District, Coast Region
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Local knowledge (LK) as it relates to food security, refers to a wide-rage of accumulated local
experience about the ecosystem or natural resources use and how they are managed in the context of
local organisational and institutional arrangements. It also includes belief and value systems of the
people. All these dimensions need to be carefully evaluated for possible inclusion in the rural
development process at both micro and macro levels.
Local knowledge (LK) can be enhanced with the infusion of outside knowledge and vice versa. The
challenge is to come up with the right dosage of local knowledge to be mixed with other outside
(scientific, modern) knowledge. This mixture is particularly useful where food security issues are being
considered. Local knowledge as used in this paper does not only refer to knowledge of the local
environment but also to the kn