The concept of inclusive innovation has become widely embraced in the agricultural domain
and promises to overcome traditional innovation paradigms by emphasizing more balanced …

Recent debates on indigenous knowledge have tended to focus on building up even more
case study material of good practice in indigenous knowledge at the local level; the …

Local knowledge has played an active role in the lives of rural communities in virtually every
part of the world. In Jamaica, traditional cropping systems based on local informal …

The purpose of this study is to reach a basic understanding of drought and climate change in
southwestern Jamaica through an integration of local knowledge and perception of drought …

The English colonial plan of converting Jamaica into a settler colony was challenged by the
Maroons who established communities in the interior of the island. Living in the forests at the …

Agricultural trends in the insular Caribbean are increasingly shaped by global change.
Global change is characterized by two components, globalization and environmental …

Despite recent calls to limit future increases in the global average temperature to well below
2° C, little is known about how different climatic thresholds will impact human society. Future …

With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of
the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing …

Members of the genus Dioscorea, food yams, were introduced to Jamaica from Africa during
the slave era and have remained a staple in local diets and national cuisine. Yam cultivation …

Knowledge management strategies are important for firms' competitive positioning. This
paper examines how knowledge management codification and personalisation strategies …