Why aren’t South Africans growing more indigenous crops? How farmers can be nudged to change their ways: Western diets make up most of South Africa’s food systems. This displaces indigenous crops and edible forest plants. The problems created by westernised diets include environmental damage caused by commercial farms. These diets also threaten African food systems. …
Drought and farming: how women in South Africa are using Indigenous knowledge to cope: Africa’s small-scale farmers make up nearly 80% of all farms in the agriculture sector. In South Africa, there are about 2 million small-scale farmers, predominantly Black and based in the eastern summer rainfall region of the country. A small-scale farmer produces …
Cop29: Indigenous communities still being sold short as the world decides how to regulate carbon markets: dee karen/Shutterstock As the annual UN climate conference, Cop29, draws to a close, negotiators, civil society observers and activists are staying up late, poring over draft texts that will determine how the international community addresses climate change for years …
King Charles heckled in Australia: the crown’s role in Indigenous rights in the Commonwealth: That the recent visit of King Charles to Australia – his first as the country’s sovereign – attracted protests will have come as a surprise to very few people. The right-wing press in the UK anticipated some kind of snub to …
How our ancestors viewed the sky: new film explores both indigenous and modern cosmology: Something remarkable is happening in a remote part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in a semi-desert area called the Karoo. In the past 15 years 64 radio receiving dishes have appeared on the landscape. These constitute the MeerKAT telescope, a …
How Mexican indigenous languages are surviving against the odds – new research: Tzeltal Maya women attend a mass wedding celebration in Zinacantan, Mexico, in March 2023. SL-Photography/Shutterstock Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you’re …
How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle: The discovery and rescue of four young Indigenous children, 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest, was hailed in the international press as a “miracle in the jungle”. But as an anthropologist …
From horseback to motorbike: inside the motorcycle boom in Indigenous South America: With their tropical climate, flowing rivers and dense forests, the vast plains and basins that make up South America’s lowlands cover a significant portion of the continent’s surface. Indeed, the Amazon rainforest covers approximately seven million square kilometres or around 40% of the …
South Africa has a new traditional courts bill. But it doesn’t protect indigenous practices: Traditional courts don't reflect indigenous ways of dispute resolution. Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images After 14 years of highly controversial amendments, South Africa’s parliament has finally approved the Traditional Courts Bill. The Bill now awaits the signature of the President to …
COVID was a setback for indigenous languages: South African lecturers on what went wrong: By some estimates only 5% of the world’s languages are likely to survive online. PeopleImages / Getty Images South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing use of digital technologies. By some …
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 50: the history of an ongoing protest for Indigenous sovereignty in Australia – podcast: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Ellen Duffy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers and listeners are advised this article and podcast contain names of deceased people. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy – a site of First …
Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics: The world lost more than 12 million hectares of tropical forest in 2020, an area about half the size of the UK. Tropical forests contain much of the world’s animal and plant species and store more than half of its terrestrial carbon. …
An African violin? New study tests which indigenous woods could make one: The two violins constructed by the researchers. Courtesy Martina Meincken Tonewoods are wood species that possess certain desirable properties that make them suitable for making musical instruments, such as woodwind or string instruments – like a flute or a violin. Any good tonewood …
South Africa in the news: Indigenous film festivals online 2021: Here’s Indigenous Media Initiative’s 2021 list of film festivals in November that are streaming the major films of the Indigenous Film Movement in 2021. Included is this year’s award-winners and even …: “South Africa” – BingNews Vaccination Requirements for Travel to the US after the …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: SA collaborates with foreign varsities to preserve indigenous African languages: Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, has commended South African universities for collaborating with foreign universities in an effort to revive and preserve …: “South Africa” – BingNews Do I need a booster if I …
Indigenous plants and food security: a South African case study: The fruit from a marula tree. Shutterstock Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food. This must meet their dietary needs and preferences for an active and healthy life. In South Africa, some …
South Africa in the news: Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War: A groundbreaking work on British and Dominion military policy in the First World War and the evolution of Dominion citizenship.’ The NYMAS Review …: “South Africa” – BingNews Sarah Torrans and Ireland make dream Olympic bow: Sarah Torrans dreams …
What drives the Indigenous People of Biafra’s relentless efforts for secession: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In late June, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, was rearrested. He was first arrested back in October 2015 for treasonable felony as well as disturbing the peace and violations of human rights. He jumped …