Indigenous Knowledge Meets Science to Solve Climate Change
Yvonne Lui
Can you tell what today’s weather is like without checking your phone?
What complements science knowledge and technology in tackling climate change?
Who is footing the bill created by climate change, the ones who cause it or those without responsibility?
Our Lui-Walton Senior Indigenous Fellow, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, has the answers.
Listen to Hindou’s insights during her TED Talk on African pastoral communities (which she herself is a part of). They can tell the weather of today and even the next 12 months by observing the wind direction, the cloud position, the bird migration and the behaviour of insects. With knowledge passed down thousands of years, the indigenous people in Chad have been living in harmony with nature, but in recent decades have fallen victim to the impact of climate change – endangering their livelihood and even their lives. Innovative methods are needed for their survival.
With the Lui-Walton Innovators Fellowship, Hindou continues to facilitate the creation of 3D participatory mapping by integrating local knowledge and data obtained from numerous cultures and communities. This serves to inform conservation and resource management while promoting security.
