Kauzeni, Athanas S.2016-09-052016-09-052000Kauzeni, A.S., 2000, February. Local knowledge and food security: the experience of Magindu village, Kibaha district, Coast region. In Selected papers from the first national Workshop held in Morogoro (p. 37e44).http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3618Local knowledge (LK) as it relates to food security, refers to a wide-rage of accumulated local experience about the ecosystem or natural resources use and how they are managed in the context of local organisational and institutional arrangements. It also includes belief and value systems of the people. All these dimensions need to be carefully evaluated for possible inclusion in the rural development process at both micro and macro levels. Local knowledge (LK) can be enhanced with the infusion of outside knowledge and vice versa. The challenge is to come up with the right dosage of local knowledge to be mixed with other outside (scientific, modern) knowledge. This mixture is particularly useful where food security issues are being considered. Local knowledge as used in this paper does not only refer to knowledge of the local environment but also to the knenJournal Article, Peer Reviewed