Indigenous Knowledge as Resilience: Underground Cereal Crop Preservation, and Its Socio-Economic Significance of D’irashe Rural Farmer, Southern Ethiopia

Historically, across the world indigenous knowledge have been marginalized, and often perceived as primitive, even though it embodies a dynamic system of knowledge introduced and developed by local communities through generations of interaction and connection they have with their environment. The holistic nature of their knowledge system and practices encompasses various domains, including social institutions, cultural practices, livelihood system, health, and natural resource management. In which characterized by its adaptive capacity in allowing local communities to respond effectively to changing environmental and climate conditions. Though to build the resilience capacity of rural people to cope with climate change, their indigenous knowledge system and practices has immense significance. D'irashe agrarian rural households cereal crop preservation practices is one of them, that are not a recent phenomenon rather it has been used and practiced for centuries. It is indigenous knowledge of the local people that provide culturally and environmentally sound effective solution to their socio-economic, and climate change concerns. This review article explore, and examines, and analyse the indigenous knowledge system of the D'irashe in crop-food preservation, and its socio-economic significance in building resilience to the effect of climate change through employing systematic review methods. Certainly examines its importance to ensure food security of the rural communities against the effects of drought and climate socks. The study finding reveal that rural communities indigenous crop preservation practices enable to ensure their food security particularly during drought season. This ensure their resilience to the impact of climate change and high climate variability.