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Utilizing traditional indigenous skills

Synonyms:
Employing native technologies
Counter Claim:
Strict reliance on traditional practices can impede effective participation, if gender and power issues are not adequately addressed.
Broader:
Developing indigenous basic industry
Transmitting heritage of indigenous peoples
Integrating traditional and new technologies
Narrower:
Using chinese medicine
Supporting traditional health care
Utilizing indigenous building material
Using traditional veterinary practices
Expanding use of local construction technologies
Incorporating environmentally sound traditional practices
Managing wild renewable resources through local communities
Facilitates:
Developing frontier technology
Learning from indigenous values
Developing inclusive water resources
Using traditional methods for water pollution control
Facilitated by:
Recovering forgotten primitive crafts
Training indigenous health professionals
Integrating indigenous knowledge on natural resources
Subjects:
Society → Minority, indigenous groups
Social Activity → Human resources
Social Activity → Employers
Recreation → Folk traditions
Economics → Resource utilization
Technology → Technology
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthGOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

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