External Intervention, Local Environment, and Knowledge Erosion: A Forest‐Based Community of S outh I ndia

In the context of ongoing discussions of the erosion of indigenous knowledge, this report provides an analysis of how the factors “external” to a particular society may interact with “internal” (localized) factors to affect such knowledge, with a case study of the K onda R eddi of A ndhra P radesh, I ndia. The external factor of market‐oriented developmental intervention in the form of the G irijan C ooperative C orporation ( GCC ) is affecting the local forest resources and the knowledge related to them. The GCC interplay with the local environment has affected the minor forest resources, subsequently eroding and changing that knowledge. [traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous knowledge, minor forest produce, knowledge loss, Konda Reddis]