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How can we use scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge to solve agricultural challenges in Africa?

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Crop Science as it were relies heavily on indigenous knowledge, conservation of genetic diversity, while utilizing current knowledge to ensure exchange/ acquisition of unique traits, sometimes beyond the species barrier, to address current agricultural challenges, ensuring enhanced crop productivity amid shrinking resources, ensuring reliable food supply, improved livelihoods for a growing population, amid climate change realities that portend increased challenges to production.

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Paul Chege

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James Brown
June 18, 2024
2 years ago

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