Mes: octubre 2019

Documenting and Promoting Community Understanding and Adaptation to Climate Change in Moyale Sub-County

The Borana pastoralist people of Northern Kenya had been observing how climate change impacts on their communities with the gradual erosion of traditional coping practices. Women used to churn milk to make ghee during the rainy season in preparation for drought. Milk made into yoghurt and preserved lasted for half a year. When drought came, …

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Strengthening Indigenous Baka Traditional Medicine, Traditional Healing and Health Care Systems

The Baka pygmies in Cameroon, Central Africa have a wealth of knowledge on traditional healing and medicinal plants from their forests. Specific animals are also sources of treatment for particular ailments such as the shells of giant snails for lumbago, or leopard’s bones as aphrodisiac, or the turtle’s egg for haemorrhoids. It is interesting to …

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