Indigenous knowledge and climate change adaptation of ethnic minorities in the mountainous regions of Vietnam: A case study of the Yao people in Bac Kan Province
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102683
Abstract: This study focuses on the accumulated indigenous knowledge of the Yao ethnic minority in Bac Kan Province of Vietnam. Through centuries of observation and experimentation, the Yao people have developed complex farming systems, cultural practices,… read more here.
Keywords: yao people; knowledge; study; climate change ... See more keywords
“Our [Yao people’s] circumcision is of the ‘brain’ not of the ‘penis’”: factors behind the resistance to voluntary medical male circumcision among Yao people of Mangochi in Southern Malawi
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DOI: 10.4314/mmj.v34i4.9
Abstract: AimMalawi officially launched Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) in 2012 after the 2007 joint WHO /UNAIDSrecommendation that VMMC be a key HIV prevention strategy for Sub-Sahara African region. Malawi data, however, contradicted thefindings of three… read more here.
Keywords: yao people; male circumcision; vmmc; southern malawi ... See more keywords