Empowering Communities, Securing Peace, Protecting Environment, Land and Livelihood
To prepare for and resist natural disasters, and to reduce the possible damage from natural disasters, the Karen indigenous people have been using their traditional knowledge for a long …
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This year (2011), herbalists and trained members of the communities from 6 different herbal medicine clinics from 4 districts in the Karen State have produced numerous herbal medicines …
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To explain crop failures, aside from easily recognizable factors like pests and diseases, the Karen draw on their animist beliefs. These explanations include phenomenon called Ku Ka …
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The Karen calendar is based mainly on signs from nature and does not follow the commonly recognised Gregorian calendar system. The moon cycle, behaviour of insects, birds and other …
