Ethiopia - A Qualitative Understanding of Local Traditional Knowledge and Medicinal Plant Use
The fieldwork-based study aims to gain insight into the local distribution of traditional health knowledge and the uses of various medicinal plants among ordinary men and women in rural communities, who constitute the vast majority of Ethiopia'...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2368299/ethiopia-qualitative-understanding-local-traditional-knowledge-medicinal-plant-use http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10786 |
| Summary: | The fieldwork-based study aims to gain
insight into the local distribution of traditional health
knowledge and the uses of various medicinal plants among
ordinary men and women in rural communities, who constitute
the vast majority of Ethiopia's population. The overall
aim of the research is to contribute to the growing body of
literature and experience pertaining to the role of
indigenous/traditional systems of knowledge in development.
Underlying this objective is the fundamental premise that
health constitutes the linchpin of the development process,
viewed at once, both as the means as well as the end of
development. The fieldwork was carried out with the
participation of communities in the rural Bahir Dar Zuria
district of Gojam (now part of the Amhara Regional State)
located in the North Western Highlands of the country. A
combination of research tools from various disciplines were
employed. Gender considerations constituted an integral and
cross-cutting aspect of the methodology, as important gender
factors were expected to be involved, inter alia, in the
distribution of traditional health knowledge and its
inter-generational transmission. |
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