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Risper Agutu says indigenous crop varieties have helped her reduce production risks while improving food security and farm sustainability
Kenya’s cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge has sat quietly at the margins of economic planning; respected and preserved, but rarely monetized.
Experts urging Kenya to integrate indigenous medicine into its healthcare system to improve affordability and access while ensuring scientific validation and regulation.
Kenya plans to monetise indigenous knowledge via digitisation and partnerships to unlock a Sh230bn annual economy.
In the mountains of Risaralda, dozens of babies have their clitoris cut each year in a brutal practice based on traditional beliefs about the need to control girls' sexuality.
With herbal medicine, anyone who enters the market with bad intentions—taking patients’ money, being greedy, or dishonest—does not last long in the industry.
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