Conference Session 78

Information systems for indigenous knowledge in agriculture

Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group

Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.

14 August 2011 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Exhibition Hall A

• Indigenous knowledge in agriculture: American Indian tribes and Māori communities support indigenous agricultural lifeways
  LORIENE ROY and VIRGINIA LUEHRSEN (School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States) and SPENCER LILLEY (Massey University Library, Palmerston North, New Zealand)
• Promoting learning process to produce organic vegetables with special reference to one village in rural Northeast Thailand
  CHANTHANA WECH-O-SOTSAKDA (Information Science, Faculty of Informatics, Maha Sarakham University, Thailand)
• Documenting and disseminating agricultural indigenous knowledge for sustainable food security: the efforts of agricultural research libraries in Nigeria
  ABIOLA ABIOYE (Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), YETUNDE ZAID and HALIMA S. EGBERONGBE (University Library, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria)
• Role of libraries in promoting the dissemination and documentation of indigenous agricultural information: case study of Zimbabwe
  COLLENCE.TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic Faculty of Information Science, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• Indigenous knowledge in agriculture: an overview
  DEVA ESWARA REDDY (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States)