Intersecting Knowledge With Landscape
Indigenous Agriculture, Sustainable Food Production and Response to Climate Change – A Case Study of Chuktia Bhunjia Tribe of Odisha, India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7463003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bhubaneswar Sabar (0000-0001-9332-110X, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, India; Department of Anthropology and Tribal Studies, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University (Erstwhile North Orissa University), India, corresponding author), D K Midya (0000-0002-9028-3504, Vidyasagar University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-141 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00219096221099634 |
| OpenAlex | W4281476263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 48 |
This paper documents the traditional agricultural practices of Chuktia Bhunjia tribe of Odisha, India, and attempts to comprehend as to how they negotiate with their ecosystem in order to ensure sustainable agricultural production and livelihood. Data, collected using interview and observation, reveal that agricultural practices of the Chuktia Bhunjia are revolved around local ecology, beliefs, rituals and knowledge. The knowledge-based intercropping, agroforestry, crop rotation, crop diversity, rain-water harvesting and management of soil fertility are important domains involved in their agricultural practices that are found to as a function of long-term observation and experiments, and are reported to have been culturally reproduced through self-engagement and ritualistic practices associated with agriculture. Their agriculture is assumed to have significance in maintaining the soil fertility and moisture, and reducing greenhouse gases and enhancing carbon sequestration whereby to balance the landscape. The agroforestry-based agricultural practices, coupled with belief, ritual and technology, is also found to make their agriculture cost-effective and ensure conservation of ecological system. Climate change–driven agricultural decision-making among them is found to as a tool not only to arrest their crop failure but also to ensure sustainable food production and livelihood. Yet, the expected evacuation of inhabitant including Chuktia Bhunjia due to ‘tiger-project’ is assumed to be a threat to their agricultural knowledge and other cultural domains. Therefore, owing to the livelihood implication of traditional agriculture, any attempt to integrate their agricultural knowledge base with scientific knowledge would ensure sustainability of both ecology and livelihood together
Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Conservation Agriculture · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Indigenous · Intercropping · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Soil fertility · Sustainability · Sustainable agriculture · Traditional knowledge · Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems · Ecology · Environmental Science · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |