Healthy ecosystems, Healthy livelihoods
Dennis Tabaro shares insights in the interview about his work on the rights of nature and the significance of indigenous knowledge and culture in Uganda. By Dennis Tabaro 27 January 2025 The Buliisa elders and Custodians of SNS drawing an Ancestral map of the Sacred Natural Sites. licence infos The interview questions were posed by dossier coordinator Imke Horstmannshoff. What […]
Indigenous knowledge. Simply put, indigenous knowledge is a combination of human mental and practical knowledge, in most cases unwritten or undocumented. This knowledge has been passed by, and acquired from, one generation to another inform of stories, songs and practical forms (skills) by old to young ones. Indigenous knowledge is developed and maintained in an open system of exchange, reciprocity […]
Kwanke Alice,61 years old, a small holder farmer from the Bagungu community in Buliisa District, Western Uganda, grew up deeply connected to the land and its ancestral traditions. For her, farming was not merely a means of sustenance but a sacred duty tied to the stewardship of her community’s Sacred Natural Sites, which her ancestors had carefully protected for generations. […]
Forests are essential to the survival of our planet playing an essential role in biodiversity conservation
AFRICE is one of the founder members of the African Jurisprudence Collective (AEJC), whichwas formed early 2018 by the pioneer graduates of a 3- year-intensive training in EarthJurisprudence practice, facilitated by the Gaia Foundation.The AEJC, composed of the course graduates, facilitators and indigenous communities(custodians of nature) is now hosted by the Earthlore organization in Zimbabwe. The collectiveis vibrant and practical […]
Africe discusses remedies for food security at community seed learning center kikarara and why the national food policy should be reviewed
Experts converge in Buliisa to discuss cultural concervation
Buliisa has been identified as the leading district in efforts to preserve sacred natural sites in Bunyoro as promoted by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights under Resolution 372 made in 2017. The district is dominated by the indigenous Bagungu and Batyaba are the communities. Buliisa has been identified as the leading district in efforts to preserve sacred […]
Various scholars have described and explained what indigenous knowledge is. What seems to be agreed as a conventional definition, which I also subscribe to, is that indigenous knowledge is that collection of information, ideas, skills, technology or and a body of knowledge acquired through intergeneration learning of a people over long period of time. We often talk about indigenous knowledge […]
popularizing The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ACHPR in Uganda
African Institute for Culture and Ecology [AFRICE] is a non-governmental organisation that is registered in Uganda and broadly focuses on working with communities to revive their knowledge and practices on food, land and ecosystems conservation
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