학술논문
Digitalization of Indigenous Knowledge in African Agriculture for Fostering Food Security
Document Type
Conference
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Source
2021 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa), 2021. :1-13 May, 2021
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ISSN
2576-8581
Abstract
The traditional knowledge of African agriculture has been used efficiently for many decades in several areas of Africa to feed African populations. The indigenous knowledge in African agriculture is known to be resilient to many hazards. Nevertheless the traditional knowledge in agriculture is shrinking as well as the indigenous languages which were the transmission based of any indigenous knowledge in Africa as well as in the rest of the world. In the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020, one of the challenges aimed to find novel pathways to safeguard best practices driven from the traditional knowledge of African agriculture, so that creating a set of databases of this knowledge will support farmers’ productivity.