Indigenous Climate Information and Modern Meteorological Records in Sinazongwe District, Southern Province, Zambia

• KANNO Hiromitsu

  NARO Tohoku Agricultural Research Center

• SAKURAI Takeshi

  Institute of Economic research, Hitotsubashi University

• SHINJO Hitoshi

  Kyoto University

• MIYAZAKI Hidetoshi

  Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

• ISHIMOTO Yudai

  Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

• SAEKI Tazu

  National Institute for Environmental Studies

• UMETSU Chieko

  Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

• SOKOTELA Sesele

  Zambia Agricultural Research Institute

• CHIBOOLA Milimo

  Zambia Agricultural Research Institute

抄録

In 2007, we conducted field research in Sinazongwe District in Southern Province, Zambia, focusing on collecting indigenous information concerning the local climate, which was often embodied in proverbs involving weather forecasts. The indigenous information was compared with recently collected meteorological records and a relationship between popular folk knowledge, local climate, and global climate factors such as ENSO (El Niño and the Southern Oscillation) was suggested. Proverbs related to agriculture and climate were categorized into four types of indicators used to forecast rain: the emergence of butterflies; tree characteristics (producing shoots, flowering, and dropping water); wind direction, wind speed, and temperature; and wind sound. The first two types are based on seasonal changes in life forms, and the latter two use wind variations produced by synoptic pattern changes.

収録刊行物

• Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly: JARQ

  Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly: JARQ 47 (2), 191-201, 2013

  国立研究開発法人　国際農林水産業研究センター

キーワード

• agriculture in Zambia
• indigenous proverbs
• meteorological observation
• resilience
• weather forecasting

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282679678921984
• NII論文ID: 130003377771
• DOI: 10.6090/jarq.47.191
• ISSN: 21858896
• ISSN: 00213551
• 本文言語コード: en
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