Watch Custodians of Life. A film from indigenous people in Uganda.
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The Banyabutumbi Small Scale farmers improve their soils and natural environment through traditional farming systems in Kikarara, Rukungiri District – Uganda.
With the funding from the New Field Foundation (NFF) and the intervention of Africe, the Banyabutumbi Communities have gradually started to revive their traditional farming systems. They have retrieved the long-lost traditional seed varieties like, millet, cassava, sorghum, peas and beans. Each of these seeds have more than four species that are nutritive, resistant to pests and diseases and are […]
A Weber presentation to the GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE (GARN)
THEME: WATER IS LIFE; The sacredness of water as I have been learning from the Bagungu indigenous communities of Bullisa, Uganda. A Weber presentation to the GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE (GARN) By Tabaro Dennis of African Institute for Culture and Ecology (AFRICE); Earth Jurisprudence Graduate from Gaia Foundation training for EJ Practitioners.
Indigenous Conservation Knowledge systems among the Baganda.
Basing on the observation that traditional knowledge has widely been marginalised in environmental conservation approaches and practices today and that this partly because it is insufficiently documented and analysed, this study set out to establish the relevance of traditional Baganda approaches to sustainable environmental conservation today. The study specifically sought to answer the following questions: What are the traditional Baganda […]
A New Story for the Earth
“The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation.” – Thomas Berry We live in a time of multiple, interconnected crises- from climate change and ecological breakdown to the rise of the far right and gross global inequality. Thomas Berry, ‘geologian’, cultural […]
Rooting rebellion in nature
Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death. I first met Thomas Berry at a talk in 1996 and immediately recognised him as an elder with a rare far-sightedness about our past, present and future. He pulled no punches during his talk: “The industrial process is now in its terminal phase. This is the […]
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHERE THE AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND ECOLOGY [AFRICE] WORKS
The culture of the people who live in the areas where AFRICE works:The project area is located near L. Edward and Queen Elizabeth National Park, atRwenshama Fish Landing Site and Kikarara Village in the District of Rukungiri. This area is part of a bigger geographical area known as the Virunga Landscape, which is part of the Albertine Graben. The area […]
Indigenous communities in Uganda
Traditional Granary among some indigenous communities in Uganda
The Banyabutumbi and Other Indigenous Communities Living in the Lake Edward Ecosystems
There are four main ethnic groupings that live around Lake Edward and these are: the Banyabutumbi, abahoro, abakingwe and abakonjo. The Banyabutumbi live around Lake Edward; the abahoro live around Lake Katwe; the abakingwe live around Lake Katwe and Lake Edward [Rwenshama] and the Bakonzo live around Lake Katwe, Lake Edward and Kazinga channel. The Banyabutumbi communities constitute the majority […]