Abstract
In response to global challenges, researchers search for new ways of knowing outside disciplinary boxes to provide long-lasting, fair solutions to complex problems. Transdisciplinary, solution-oriented research widely known as sustainability science transcends disciplinary interactions and puts in conversation a plurality of academic and non-academic types of knowledge (Tengö et al 2014). Here, we explore how academic knowledge from botany, ecology, ethnoecology, economy, and anthropology, Indigenous and local knowledge, and knowledge from the private sector can support the sustainable development of the ivory-palm button social-ecological system.