ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE EMBARKING ON A RESEARCH IN AE-FUNAI
Research The portfolio of research to be undertaken in FUNAI consists of the following areas, among other themes that may emerge from time to times: Discipline-specific research areas, to be undertaken in all the disciplinary areas that make up the University. Cross-cutting issues such as food security, climate change, renewable energy, environmental sustainability, etc. Issues of development Socio-cultural implications of technological advancement and the diffusion and adoption of new technologies. Investigation of indigenous knowledge and practices derived from folklores oral literature with a view to (i) documenting such knowledge and practices so that the inherent rich cultural and traditional knowledge preserved and conserved, (ii) distilling and understanding the scientific basis of the same, and (ii) refining and repacking technologies arising and developed there from for commercialization, dissemination, diffusion and mass adoption. Strategies for exploitation, be...