121 African Indigenous Organic Farming as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy  Anke Weisheit Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda Hassan O. Kaya University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Abstract Organic farming has been practiced in Africa for centuries as an indigenous environmental conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy. African local communities using their tested local knowledge, skills and experience know that organic farming has the potential to address the combined threat of climate change and other environmental stresses. It promotes the use of cultural, biological and mechanical methods as opposed to using synthetic materials. However, this community-based knowledge is tied to specific climatic conditions and cannot be transferred to other areas without due caution and modification including further research. Its success also requires a wider recognition among institutions that currently promote mainly conventional agriculture. Keywords: Organic farming, climate change, indigenous knowledge Introduction The Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2007) states that a wide range of adaptation options are Citation: Weisheit, Anke & Hassan O. Kaya 2014. African Indigenous Organic Farming as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. In Hassan O. Kaya & Yonah N. Seleti (eds.): African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: An African Young Scientists Initiative. Wandsbeck, South Africa: People's Publishers.