Throughout history, forests dwellers have adapted to permanent changes of forest ecosystems that, in essence, are dynamic. Accordingly, they have long served as models of how humans lived when their lifestyles and genetic endowment were complementary. What is now commonly described as the “paleod...
Dounias, E.
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Froment, A.
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[From foraging to farming among present-day forest hunter-gatherers: consequences on diet and health]
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From foraging to farming among present-day forest hunter-gatherers: consequences on diet and health
This paper deals with "Indigenous peoples' health in changing rainforests". It describes the study carried out jointly by CIFOR and IRD on the nutritional ecology of the Punan Tubu in Eastern Kalimantan. It compares the contrasted situations between the Punan who still leave remotedly in the fore...
Dounias, E.
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Kishi, M.
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Selzner, A.
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Kurniawan, I.
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Levang, P.
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[No longer nomadic: changing Punan Tubu lifestyle requires new health strategies]
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No longer nomadic: changing Punan Tubu lifestyle requires new health strategies
In many traditionally managed agroecosystems, populations of domesticated plants maintain high levels of genetic diversity. The threat of erosion of this diversity is a current conservation concern, motivating studies of how diversity can be maintained by in situ conservation measures. Precisely ...
Álvarez, N.
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Garine, E.
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Khasah, C.
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Dounias, E.
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Hossaert-McKey, M.
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McKey, D.
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[Farmers' practices, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation of agricultural biodiversity on-farm: a case study of sorghum among the Duupa in sub-sahelian Cameroon]
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Farmers' practices, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation of agricultural biodiversity on-farm: a case study of sorghum among the Duupa in sub-sahelian Cameroon
Indonesia's 1999-2004 decentralization reforms created opportunities for land-use planning that reflected local conditions and local people's needs. We report on seven years of work in the District of Malinau in Indonesian Borneo that attempted to reconnect government land-use plans to local peop...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Dounias, E.
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Gunarso, P.
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Moeliono, M.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Interactive land-use planning in Indonesia rainforest landscapes: reconnecting plans to practice]
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Interactive land-use planning in Indonesia rainforest landscapes: reconnecting plans to practice
Dounias, E.
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Selzner, A.
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Koizumi, M.
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Levang, P.
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[From sago to rice, from forest to town: the consequences of sedentarization for the nutritional ecology of Punan former hunter-gatherers of Borneo]
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From sago to rice, from forest to town: the consequences of sedentarization for the nutritional ecology of Punan former hunter-gatherers of Borneo
Only recently, ethnobotany has cought the interest of actors involved in the sustainable management of natural resources based on local ecological knowledge. In the perspective of conceiving a website for the African Ethnobotany Network (AEN), a preliminary study was undertaken in order to assess...
Petit, C.
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Dounias, E.
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[L'ethnobotanique sur internet: quelles perspectives pour le Réseau Africain d'Ethnobotanique?]
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L'ethnobotanique sur internet: quelles perspectives pour le Réseau Africain d'Ethnobotanique?
That forest people intimately depend on forests for their livelihoods is widely accepted and, so it is predicted, the rapid pace of deforestation in the humid tropics will soon lead them into utter destitution or, worse, drive them into cities. Socio-economic studies recently carried out among Pu...
The Punan Tubu, a group of hunter-gatherers in East-Kalimantan, Indonesia, are used to illustrate the very real trade-offs that are made between conservation and development. This group has undergone various forms of resettlement in the 20th century, to the point that some are now settled close t...
Levang, P.
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Sitorus, S.
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Dounias, E.
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[City life in the midst of the forest: a Punan hunter-gatherer’s vision of conservation and development]
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City life in the midst of the forest: a Punan hunter-gatherer’s vision of conservation and development
This article examines the changes in diet and health that occur when nomadic forest dwellers settle. Examples are drawn from African Pygmy groups such as the Kola, Medjan and Baka of Cameroon, the Aka of the Central African Republic and the Efe and Mbuti of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; a...
Dounias, E.
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Froment, A.
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[When forest-based hunter-gatherers become sedentary: consequences for diet and health]
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When forest-based hunter-gatherers become sedentary: consequences for diet and health
Dounias, E.
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[From Subsistence to Commercial Hunting: Technical Shift in Cynegetic Practices Among Southern Cameroon Forest Dwellers During the 20th Century]
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From Subsistence to Commercial Hunting: Technical Shift in Cynegetic Practices Among Southern Cameroon Forest Dwellers During the 20th Century