Indigenous Knowledge, Agricultural production and Community Development - A Case Study on Tayal People's Natural Agriculture in Quri Community
| Autor: | 羅恩加 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 104 Recently, organic agriculture has become a worldwide trend. This trend is affected by the Green Revolution in 1960s, which made organic agriculture became an innovative productive pattern. In Taiwan, even though organic agriculture had been officially promoted in 1996, it’s always very difficult for Indigenous people to transfer from conventional agriculture to organic agriculture. In nowadays, Indigenous communities are not only face the issues related to development, but also try to break through the dilemma of agricultural transformation. Thus, it’s urgent to seek the solution of above issues. This research is a case study of a settlement of Tayal people– Quri community. The natural agriculture in Quri community integrate indigenous knowledge and organic agriculture and attracted domestic and international researchers and farmers. This research use action research and ethnography as research methods, which includes participatory observation, focus groups interviews and in-depth interviews. This study aims to explore: (1) the agricultural transformation in Quri community; (2) the meaning of traditional agriculture in contemporary society; (3) how Quri community be inspired by Christianity to develop natural agriculture; (4) how natural agriculture facilitate development of organic agriculture and Indigenous community. The research outcomes show that the natural agriculture in Quri community, which integrate with Indigenous knowledge and be supported by Christianity, community leaders and clans, is an innovative agricultural pattern. Integrating Indigenous knowledge in natural agriculture shows that Indigenous knowledge is able to change organic agriculture and produce a new discourse of knowledge production. In the meanwhile, this case study also provide decisive experiences to present Indigenous communities’ development and government’s future agricultural policies. |
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