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Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework

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The concept of inclusive innovation has become widely embraced in the agricultural domain and promises to overcome traditional innovation paradigms by emphasizing more balanced, sustainable, and just human-environmental relations. Indigenous and local knowledge play an increasingly important role in debates about inclusive innovation, highlighting the diversity of relevant actors and marginalized perspectives. At the same time, the positioning of Indigenous and local knowledge in innovation processes remains ambiguous and contested. This article addresses this positioning in the context of inclusive agricultural innovations by reviewing 65 publications through iterative inductive coding. The qualitative review generates a conceptual framework that distinguishes five different modes relating innovation processes to Indigenous and local knowledge. These modes differ in locating innovations in endogenous, exogenous, or hybrid knowledge production. Furthermore, they also differ in their conceptualizations of Indigenous and local knowledge as dynamic or static. The resulting matrix provides resources for navigating the complex epistemic and political relations between knowledge systems in the agricultural domain.

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  1. Indexes for Web of Science: SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, ESCI.

  2. This premise is also present in the third mode (see for example Table 3, Tools for policies and innovations narrative).

  3. The label largely speaks for itself. However, for more information, see Chambers et al. (1989). This model has already been problematized by authors such as Chambers et al. (1989), Gyekye (1995), and Leeuwis and Van den Ban (2004).

  4. This study focused on ILK related to the totora reed in Peru and its uses.

  5. To illustrate: in an open letter to policy makers about science-policy interactions in the context of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, it is written: “It is Indigenous people, peasants, and so called ‘lay’ people who have contributed to establishing the myriad of diverse, regenerative, and sustainable food systems that have been compromised by centuries of attempts to control and commodify nature. They are not stakeholders to be consulted by scientists, but rights-holders and knowledge-holders around whom food systems transitions should be built.” (see: https://agroecologyresearchaction.org/open-letter-to-policy-makers-no-new-science-policy-interface-for-food-systems/).

Abbreviations

ILK:

Indigenous and local knowledge

IK:

Indigenous knowledge

LK:

Local knowledge

TEK:

Traditional ecological knowledge

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Peddi, B., Ludwig, D. & Dessein, J. Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework. Agric Hum Values 40, 395–408 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10344-z

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