This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific knowledge in climate governance schemes. Indigenous people and their priceless knowledge rarely feature when decision-makers prepare for future climate change. This book showcases how Indigenous knowledge facilitates adaptation to climate change, including how collaborations with scientific knowledge have cascaded into building people's resilience to climatic risks. This book also pays delicate attention to the factors fueling epistemic injustice towards Indigenous knowledge, which hampers it from featuring in climate governance schemes across sub-Saharan Africa. The key insights shared in this book illuminate the issues that contribute meaningfully towards the actualisation of the UN SDG 13 and promote mechanisms forraising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Eromose Ebhuoma is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA). His research interests lie in local and indigenous knowledge systems; climate change vulnerability and adaptation; climate services; political ecology; community development; rural livelihoods and environmental sustainability. He has written a number of articles and conference proceedings on topics revolving around his research interests. He is a steering committee member of the South African Adaptation Network.Llewellyn Leonard is Professor at the School of Ecological and Human Sustainability, University of South Africa. His research interests include environmental justice; sustainability; risk communication; environmental leadership; civil society-state-industry relations; climate change adaptation and mitigation, mining and tourism impacts and political ecology/economy. He has published numerous articles in international journals.

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PART 1: The role of Indigenous knowledge systems in climate change adaptation and mitigation

1. Advocating for Indigenous Knowledge Systems for Veld-fire Reduction in Mitigating Climate Change in Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe: Menard MUSENDEKWA, Liveson TATIRA

2. Indigenous adaptation of pastoralists to climate variability and range land management in the Ndop plain, northwest region, Cameroon: Moye Eric KONGNSO

3. Indigenous spiritual beliefs in the context of natural resource management, adaptation to climate change and ecological conservation among the Yoruba's in Nigeria: Musediq Olufemi LAWAL, Oluwagbemiga O. AJAYI and Adebayo Emmanuel AKINYEMI

   4. Indigenous perspectives on gender roles, climate change and community-based adaptation in Central Africa: A systematic review: Henry B. TANTOH, Tracey J.M. MCKAY and Eromose E. EBHUOMA

4. Karanga women's utilisation of Indigenous knowledge systems on climate change adaptation and mitigation in Zimbabwe: Implications for integrating with scientific knowledge: Sophia CHIRONGOMA and Silindiwe ZVINGOWANISEL

5. An assessment of the role of indigenous knowledge systems in climate change adaptation and mitigation in Southern Africa: Shorai KAVU and Collen KAJONGWE

6. Farmers' indigenous adaptation strategies to the impacts of climate change on rice production in Anambra State, Nigeria: Ifeoma Quinette ANUGWA, Jane Mbolle CHAH and Uzoamaka OGWO

7. Adopting indigenous knowledge systems to enhance peace education programs for climate change and adaptation in Zimbabwe: Ntombizakhe MOYO-NYONI PART 2: Integration of Indigenous and scientific knowledge systems to scale up resilience to climate change

8. Making climate services actionable for farmers in Northern Ghana: A reflection on the value of co-production and knowledge integration: Emmanuel NYADZI, Andy B. NYAMEKYE, Fulco LUDWIG

9. Changing the narrative towards indigenous knowledge system and scientific knowledge system collaboration to scale up resilience to climate change in Nigeria: Lanre Tajudeen AJIBADE and Bolakale Saheed AJADI

10. Reconciling indigenous and scientific knowledge to address the issue of climate change and land degradation in Lesotho: A case study of Maseru District: Itumeleng KOMANE and Mulalo RABUMBULU

    12. Demystifying avenues for integrating indigenous weather forecasts with scientific meteorological forecasts in West Africa: Valentine E. NNADI, Emeka L. UDOKPORO, Ikenna C. EZEASOR, Eromose E. EBHUOMA

    PART 3: Integration of Indigenous knowledge systems in climate change governance and planning

11. Harnessing indigenous knowledge systems as a vehicle for enhanced climate change adaptation and governance: Felix Kwabena DONKOR, Kevin MEARNS

12. Integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Climate Change Policy of Zimbabwe: Tariro KAMUTI

13. Enhancing climate change adaptation through indigenous knowledge systems and local governance in Africa: Jane Mbolle CHAH, Ifeoma Quinette ANUGWA, Divine EWANE

14. Prospects for strengthening adaptation governance through indigenous knowledge systems: Nelson CHANZA, Walter MUSAKWA and Anton de WIT

    17. Factors fuelling the underrepresentation of indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation policies in East Africa: A systematic review: Eromose E. EBHUOMA

15. Factors undermining the use of indigenous knowledge systems in climate change governance initiatives in Central Africa: A systematic review: Anyway KATANHA