Introducing locally adaptable conservation technologies

Description

Introducing locally adaptable conservation technologies involves developing and implementing tools, methods, and practices tailored to the specific environmental, cultural, and economic conditions of a region. This strategy aims to enhance resource efficiency, reduce environmental degradation, and empower communities by providing practical solutions that address local conservation challenges. By prioritizing adaptability and community involvement, it remedies the limitations of generic approaches, ensuring sustainable outcomes and greater acceptance of conservation initiatives at the grassroots level.

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends promoting technologies of vegetative conservation measures for erosion prevention, in situ moisture management, improved cropping technology, fodder production and agroforestry that are low-cost, simple and easily adopted by local people.

Claim

The basis for change and improvement lies with making the people of the area the focus, making them responsible for their environment through the use of the traditional knowledge base as a foundation stone for sustainable real development, as if people matter.