Palms
2011 - Now
Commission
2011 - Now
Commission
Project Info
PALMS is a collaboration with ethnobotany PhD student Rodrigo Cámara Leret, who has been documenting the use of and trade in palm products as part of the 'Work Package 3: Products provided by palms to local people', of the PALMS project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union. In this context design will be initially employed to record this vast information graphically. As the project evolves, the aim will be to analyse in which manner this information should be returned to each indigenous community for their optimum comprehension.
Official Project Outline
Tropical forests harbour thousands of useful plants that are harvested and used in subsistence economies or traded in local, regional or international markets. The effect on the ecosystem is little known, and the forests resilience is badly understood. Palms are the most useful group of plants in tropical American forests and in this project we study the effect of extraction and trade of palms on forest in the western Amazon, the Andes and the Pacific lowlands...
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Project done in collaboration with:
Rodrigo Camara Leret - PhD student (UAM)
FP7 - PALMS
PALMS is a collaboration with ethnobotany PhD student Rodrigo Cámara Leret, who has been documenting the use of and trade in palm products as part of the 'Work Package 3: Products provided by palms to local people', of the PALMS project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union. In this context design will be initially employed to record this vast information graphically. As the project evolves, the aim will be to analyse in which manner this information should be returned to each indigenous community for their optimum comprehension.
Official Project Outline
Tropical forests harbour thousands of useful plants that are harvested and used in subsistence economies or traded in local, regional or international markets. The effect on the ecosystem is little known, and the forests resilience is badly understood. Palms are the most useful group of plants in tropical American forests and in this project we study the effect of extraction and trade of palms on forest in the western Amazon, the Andes and the Pacific lowlands...
Read more
Project done in collaboration with:
Rodrigo Camara Leret - PhD student (UAM)
FP7 - PALMS
