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2 Fall 2014 Quarterly Newsletter No.25 In The Name Of God First Words Indigenous knowledge, a solution for compatibility with environmental threats Indigenous knowledge is a part of each nation’s capital that consists of their local beliefs, methods, tools and information.Through this knowledge, various nations have sought their livelihood from their environment during several centuries (Emadi & Abbasi, 1999). Agriculture & livestock knowledge, is a knowledge that is experienced by farmers and ranchmen and transfer it to other generations. History shows that indigenous agriculture knowledge will be removed gradually and the rest is experimented. Such knowledge includes the smart and precise observations on plants, animals, climate, soil, pests and classified systems that are fully compatible with local conditions. One of the requirements of indigenous knowledge is new limitation and failure. The failures are happened due to different reasons including lack of indigenous knowledge and experience. This inattention may be derived from social factors as proud of holders of new knowledge against holders of indigenous knowledge or imagination of new knowledge holders from indigenous knowledge as one that belongs to the ancients. The characteristics of indigenous knowledge for sustainable development are as follow: compatibility with plenty of work force and low demand of capital, dynamism, local full adaptability, accepting the various productive systems, emphasis on conservation of resources and avoiding risk, logical decision making, flexible strategies for emergency cases ( drought & famine) simple,innovative and intelligent agriculture system that is proper for simultaneous cultivation of several products, complete combination of productive methods with social bodies, flexibility & capability of high entrepreneurship.(Emadi & Abbasi, 1999). The most important applicable fields of indigenous knowledge against environmental threats due to climate change and inappropriate management with ecological capacities are : 1. Conservation of natural resources is our traditional honor. Traditional methods like common range management will be the proper method for comprehensive management of watershed areas. 2. Active collaboration of the operators in decision making, planning, executing & monitoring and evaluation on the basis of indigenous knowledge & environmental recognition, is the sponsor of achieving the land sustainable development indicators, e.g. in the past that nomads territory was recognized as a territory under public management, while migrating, they paid attention to range reclamation through seeding with efficient methods and they conserved the land for the next year. 3. The modern knowledge in combination with indigenous knowledge can be more efficient. Traditional systems for rain water extraction and logical use of water in Hormozgan, Golestan, Yazd shows the high potential of traditional knowledge in land management. But lack of attention and emphasis on the modern knowledge as movement of construction of dams in the world and Iran, indicated how a land can be faced down a serious challenge while it had conserved its indigenous knowledge for several centuries. 4. The people can express the real problems relying on indigenous knowledge and organize the priorities based on real needs of a watershed area. Houshang Jazi National Project Management HablehRoud & MENARID Quarterly Newsletter Deputy of Watershed Management, Range and Desert Affair National Project Management HablehRoud & MENARID: Houshang Jazi Gathering: Zohreh Jamshidi Coauthors: Abouzar Koushki, Ahmad Golivari, Rouhollah Darvish, Maryam Tajiki, Sheyda Aghazadeh, Seyed Vahid Khatami, Mohammad Rastin Translated by: Zahra Goudarzi Address: Forests,Ranges & Watershed Management Organization, After Mini City – Artesh Boulevard.Tehran Zip Code: 1955756113 Telefax: 22488572 Designer: Dariush Golesorkhi Print: Omran Publish Quarterly Newsletter No.25 Fall 2014 1 Implementation of the project for repairing & dredging Amidabad aqueduct with partnership of local communities For the purpose of the second achievement of Hableh Roud project and promoting the condition of land & water resources management, and controlling the lands destruction through partnership processes, an agreement was concluded between Semnan watershed management and natural resources office and Qomes green village cooperative with subject matter of collaborative implementation of repairing the aqueduct in Amidabad of Laasjerd (Sorkheh City). It should be noted that after visiting and expert studies in several aqueducts in desert and low water regions, Amidabad was selected as pilot and the operations were implemented with collaboration of Hableh Roud project & local communities. Amidabad aqueduct with the length of 2500 m is located in Sorkheh city in the same region. After dredging and repairing the aqueducts, increase of water debi to 3 times provide the proper conditions for agriculture in the abandoned lands. Mr.Karami, Sorkheh governor while visiting the executive process of Hableh Roud project, emphasized on inter-organizational solidarity and stated that the implementation of the next phases of sample water village requires the collaboration of executive bodies. Mr.Hemati head of natural resources and watershed management of Sorkheh, reported the rate of predicted credits and executive process of Hableh Roud projects and addressed the collaboration of operators in projects implementation for the purpose of promoting the condition of land & water resources management, proper operation of underground waters and achieving the sustainable development using the indigenous knowledge. It should be mentioned that, Sorkheh governor while visiting the first phase of sample water village in Asadabad and repairing the Amidabad aqueduct, discussed with the operators on implementation of the project and their satisfaction. Visit of Sorkheh governor from executive process of Hableh Roud project 2 Fall 2014 Quarterly Newsletter No.25 Considering the emphasis of Hableh Roud on land & water management, promoting the efficiency of the production Implementation of sample water factors, increase of production and promoting the methods of village project (Asadabad) with land & water management through increase of the knowledge and skill of the operators, an agreement was concluded collaboration of local communities between natural resources & watershed management office in Semnan and CBO of Asadabad farmers with the purpose of construction of sample water village and collaborative execution in construction of water transferring channel as the first phase of the project. For this purpose, it was taken into account that several meetings with local communities, executive directors be held in the future. In these meetings while Hableh Roud project was introduced, it was emphasized on performing the collaborative projects for land & water resources management and presenting the sample water village, the comments and suggestions of the operators on region potentials and the necessity of land & water resources management was studied. In order to make intersection co-ordinations, some explanations were presented on better implementation of sample water village project as pilot and it was emphasized on the necessity of cooperation and providing technical and expert assistance of executive bodies in this project. It should be mentioned that considering the sharp drop in underground water level and replacing the traditional irrigation systems (aqueducts) by modern systems (wells) and its high costs, maintenance and repairing the wells that had negative effects on the income of the families, performing the collaborative project of sample water village will result in the improvement of the living of local communities and finally providing the arrangements for increasing products and annual income of the operators, the proper conditions will also be made for returning the immigrants to the villages and reduction of the rate of immigration to cities for earning money. The project of sample water village in Asadabad, located in west 10th km of Sorkheh, is ready to perform and will cover about 200 Acres of the agricultural lands. In the first phase of the project, a 1200m concrete channel water is constructed with collaboration of local communities. Third meeting of management and planning committee of Sorkheh was held on 15/12/2014 in meeting Management of water resources, identifying hall of Sorkheh governorship with the presence of the cultivation method and change of living, Mr.Karami governor, the representatives of executive the main factors of returning the rural bodies as Jihad-e- Agriculture, water resources affairs, housing foundation, the representatives of the local communities and Hableh Roud project. The attendees discussed on the proposed projects of 2015, Hableh Roud project in Sorkheh and stated that being deserted the south of communication roads are the main factor of immigration of the rural and said that the water resources management, identifying the cultivation method and change in living of the people are its solution. Quarterly Newsletter No.25 Fall 2014 3 Mr.Alexander Borde international consultant of environment economy of MENARID project had a visit From performing projects of Sorkheh in Hableh Roud watershed area. In this visit Mr.Nocheh executive director of Hableh Roud in Semnan while presenting the projects, explained about the performance processes and its effect on the living of the local communities