Building upon Traditional Knowledge to Enhance Resilience of Soils in Sub-Saharan Africa - Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agroecosystems - page 109

5 Building upon Traditional

Knowledge to Enhance
Resilience of Soils in
Sub-Saharan Africa

Moses M. Tenywa, Julius Y. K. Zake, and Rattan Lal

CONTENTS
5.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 110
5.2 Nature of Problem of Lack of Integration of TK and SK ............................. 110
5.2.1 Institutional Failures—Policy Aggressively Promoting Western
S&T ................................................................................................... 110
5.2.2 Idealization of TK in Past Studies .................................................... 112
5.2.3 Lack of Framework/Mechanism for Integration of TK and SK ....... 117
5.2.4 Justification of Promotion of TK—Failure of Western Solutions
to Usher in Sustainable Soil Management ........................................ 119
5.3 Resilience Approach to Soil Management.................................................... 120
5.3.1 Soil Management Dimensions; Socioecological Resilience,
Ecosystem Resilience, and Soil Resilience ...................................... 121
5.3.2 At the Socioecological Scale ............................................................ 122
5.3.3 At the Ecological Scale ..................................................................... 122
5.3.4 At the Soil Scale ............................................................................... 123
5.4 Resilience Model .......................................................................................... 123
5.4.1 Managing for Resilience ................................................................... 123
5.4.2 Conventional View of Resilience ...................................................... 125
5.4.3 Alternative View to Managing for Resilience .................................. 127
5.5 Renaissance of TK ........................................................................................ 129
5.6 Union of SK and TK ..................................................................................... 132
5.6.1 Conceptualization Framework for Management of Explicit TK ...... 133
5.7 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 133
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................. 133
Abbreviations ......................................................................................................... 133
References .............................................................................................................. 134

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