The varietal diversity of coconut and taro in an isolated village from Vanuatu are identified using tools from agronomy, anthropology, genetics and geography. The result of this interdisciplinary work suggests that its validation, both from the local as well as scientific points of view, depends not only upon the social relationships with the plants, which have been shaped by their biology and their history, but also upon the purposes for which they are intended, namely, to preserve a cultural diversity, a phenotypic variability, an evolutionary potential and the place's memory through ancestral links. The contrasting examples of the taro (a socially valued object, cultivated on land inherited “from the ancestors”, and linked to an importan...
Au cours du onzième séminaire d'ethnobotanique autour du thème "Les fruits, nourritures ambiguës du ...
Au Vanuatu, comme dans d'autres archipels du Pacifique, les cultures vivrières associées aux Jeunes ...
International audienceThe diversity of cultivated plants was created and maintained by traditional p...
The varietal diversity of coconut and taro in an isolated village from Vanuatu are identified using ...
Treize ans après le sommet de la Terre, cette thèse souligne les contradictions entre diversité cult...
International audienceIn many small countries of the South Pacific, the production of copra has a pr...
Copra production has represented a major income source for Vanuatu’s rural population since at leas...
By summarizing surveys conducted on 27 islands of the Pacific region, this chapter reports some trad...
Shifting cultivation is the dominant land-use system of the inter-tropical zone. Rural people of dev...
Towards an agreed methodology for the recovery of threatened plants in La Réunion Island. — The know...
At a time of global ecological crisis, through the example of Reunion Island, this research attempts...
At a time of global ecological crisis, through the example of Reunion Island, this research attempts...
Agronomie selection generates and maintains agrobiodiversity which can be regarded as an essential r...
Although scientists and policy makers embrace the general concept "sustainable development", there a...
This article is a contribution to the development of in situ strategies for the conservation of plan...
Au cours du onzième séminaire d'ethnobotanique autour du thème "Les fruits, nourritures ambiguës du ...
Au Vanuatu, comme dans d'autres archipels du Pacifique, les cultures vivrières associées aux Jeunes ...
International audienceThe diversity of cultivated plants was created and maintained by traditional p...
The varietal diversity of coconut and taro in an isolated village from Vanuatu are identified using ...
Treize ans après le sommet de la Terre, cette thèse souligne les contradictions entre diversité cult...
International audienceIn many small countries of the South Pacific, the production of copra has a pr...
Copra production has represented a major income source for Vanuatu’s rural population since at leas...
By summarizing surveys conducted on 27 islands of the Pacific region, this chapter reports some trad...
Shifting cultivation is the dominant land-use system of the inter-tropical zone. Rural people of dev...
Towards an agreed methodology for the recovery of threatened plants in La Réunion Island. — The know...
At a time of global ecological crisis, through the example of Reunion Island, this research attempts...
At a time of global ecological crisis, through the example of Reunion Island, this research attempts...
Agronomie selection generates and maintains agrobiodiversity which can be regarded as an essential r...
Although scientists and policy makers embrace the general concept "sustainable development", there a...
This article is a contribution to the development of in situ strategies for the conservation of plan...
Au cours du onzième séminaire d'ethnobotanique autour du thème "Les fruits, nourritures ambiguës du ...
Au Vanuatu, comme dans d'autres archipels du Pacifique, les cultures vivrières associées aux Jeunes ...
International audienceThe diversity of cultivated plants was created and maintained by traditional p...