Indigenous people have been confronted with altering environments and have developed a wide collection of coping strategies. Their traditional knowledge and practices endow with an important basis for facing the even greater challenges of climate change and recurrent droughts. In order to take on indigenous knowledge productively in development, there is a need to move beyond the dichotomy of indigenous versus scientific and work towards building connections across the indigenous and scientific divide. This calls for equality and union between traditional and scientific knowledge systems,...