(UNESCO) Indigenous knowledge is the local knowledge that is unique to a culture or society. Other names for it include: ‘local knowledge’, ‘folk knowledge’, ‘people’s knowledge’, ‘traditional
wisdom’ or ‘traditional science’. This knowledge is passed from generation to generation, usually by word of mouth and cultural rituals, and has been the basis for agriculture, food preparation, health care, education, conservation and the wide range of other activities that sustain societies in many parts of the world.
Subject to national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge innovations and practices.
I think that this book might help you! Shiva, V. (2016). The violence of the green revolution: Third world agriculture, ecology, and politics. University Press of Kentucky.
We are living in a world of information because of computers and the internet however, we are losing knowledge of growing food because family farms are disappearing. Agriculture stands on some basic principles (prepare the soil, plant the crop, take care of it with water and fertilizers, protect it against pathogens, harvest and sell the crop). However, the knowledge of doing agriculture is diverse and distinctive among different people, inhabiting different regions of the world. The "information" we got from the green revolution homogenized and standardized the knowledge of growing food. This culture contributed to the further demise of family farms around the world.
Please refer to this article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1462901118300418
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