Indigenous Climate Information and Modern Meteorological Records in Sinazongwe District, Southern Province, Zambia
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- KANNO Hiromitsu
- NARO Tohoku Agricultural Research Center
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- SAKURAI Takeshi
- Institute of Economic research, Hitotsubashi University
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- SHINJO Hitoshi
- Kyoto University
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- MIYAZAKI Hidetoshi
- Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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- ISHIMOTO Yudai
- Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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- SAEKI Tazu
- National Institute for Environmental Studies
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- UMETSU Chieko
- Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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- SOKOTELA Sesele
- Zambia Agricultural Research Institute
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- CHIBOOLA Milimo
- Zambia Agricultural Research Institute
Abstract
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.
Journal
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- Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly: JARQ
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Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly: JARQ 47 (2), 191-201, 2013
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282679678921984
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- NII Article ID
- 130003377771
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- ISSN
- 21858896
- 00213551
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed