Development of agriculture and generation of environmental problems. How can we utilize local environmental knowledge?

This research aims to integrate the environmental wisdom embedded in local agriculture in order to mitigate or slow rapid environmental degradation related to the expansion of global agriculture. Project research firstly documents local knowledge in traditional agriculture in relation to different natural constraints in resource utilization, while also describing the current patterns of agriculture-caused environmental degradation. The second step clarifies the traditional ecological and technical measures that can counter environmental degradation while also seeking conceptual frameworks that can incorporate broader environmental values into agricultural production. We hypothesize that these approaches will be easily incorporated into contemporary agriculture because such ecological and technical tools are original to traditional societies.