The workshop will include a series of oral presentations, a poster session, a few invited lectures and focus groups. After the initial registration the participants will be asked to submit the abstracts of their posters or speeches (until 15 July). All the abstracts within the scope of the topic of the meeting will be published and circulated among the participants. Due to time constraints WE MAY NOT be able to allocate everyone space for a...
Exploring cultural diversity and related indigenous knowledge among the Loita Maasai community: Emanyatta oo Lorikan Contributed to the ISE Newsletter by Henri ole Saitabau1 Cultural diversity is an ethnobiological aspect enshrined within the indigenous knowledge systems. Such systems have remained impeccable in practice and have ensured preservation of culture and community distinctiveness among the Loita Maasai, factors they share in common...
Contributed by Ermias Lulekal1; Co-authors: Zemede Asfaw2, Ensermu Kelbessa2, Patrick Van Damme1,3 Shared with permission from Afrika Focus (Volume 24, Nr. 2, 2011. pp. 71-121) This work reviews literature on ethnobotanical knowledge of wild edible plants and their potential role in combating food insecurity in Ethiopia. Information on a total of 413 wild edible plants belonging to 224 genera and 77 families was compiled in this review. Shrubs...
Contributed by Edmond Dounias UMR5175 Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, France Funded by the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité, FRB), Sentimiel — a play of word with ‘sentinel’, ‘miel’ being the French term for ‘honey’ — is a citizen science operation with the twin aims of i) constructing a network of cooperative initiatives around traditional...
Submitted by Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto* and Rodrigo Gurgel Gonçalves1 The American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is an endemic zoonosis in the Americas and its etiologic agent is the haemoflagellate parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted by feces of blood-sucking insects of the subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae). The total prevalence of Chagas disease was reduced from >16 million to 8 million people, estimated in...
