As a holistic phenomenon, indigenous knowledge, including traditional farming practices, is a
site of indigenous peoples' and other local communities' *299 dialogue with the West in the post/
neocolonial era. For convenience, the underlying framework of Western and non-Western
(indigenous) epistemology corresponds to scientific and non-scientific/indigenous knowledge.
In this paradigm, so called Western science and its indigenous knowledge counterparts
depict two competing worldviews. [FN117] In practical terms, the two worldviews embody
opposing alternatives and sometimes complementary approaches to humanity's dealing or
relationship with the environment, ecological forces and, by extension, their agricultural
philosophies.