This special issue addressing the theme of “Indigenous and Trans-Systemic Knowledge Systems” seeks to expand existing methods, approaches, conceptual understandings Indigenous Knowledges create new awareness, explorations, inspirations across other knowledge systems. Typically, these have arisen been published through western disciplinary traditions in interaction engagement with diverse Writte...

Modern scientific knowledge and indigenous or traditionally based knowledge are often assumed to be fundamentally different and incomparable. Testing this assumption is important theoretically and for supporting scientist-farmer collaboration to improve farmers’ well-being in their own terms. We illustrate the use of scenarios based on a basic biological model to understand farmers’ theoretical...

Availability of food supply and access are crucial to achieve household food security. Using of indigenous knowledge in solving food shortage remains a powerful means of sustaining household food security. In rural Sudan women are often responsible for food processing and storage, collecting of water and firewood and for generating incomes for subsistence. The objective of this article is to sh...

Inferior and backward. Only recently has indigenous knowledge (partly) lost these seemingly indelible labels. This development started in the 60's with anthropologists' ethnoscience research and the discovery and publication of 'indigenous knowledge success stories', and continued in the 70's by the development of Farming Systems Research philosophy and the sprouting of formal studies on indige...

 This paper investigates the influence of indigenous Indonesian management behaviours during international business negotiations in an Indonesian context, and the impact of these behaviours upon multinational corporations (MNC) in Indonesia.  Through an inductive analysis of interviews with 55 Indonesian and nonIndonesian managers, this paper applies a postcolonial theoretical lens to identif...