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Panel 7-4 Cultivating Wild Edible Plants, Solidarity, and Social Relations in the Prey Lang Forest Cambodia /Courtney WORK
Courtney WORK
Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
In response to extreme degradation of forest resources in the Prey Lang Forest of north-central Cambodia, local Kuy indigenous people are collaborating with researchers to re-populate their landscapes with forest plants. This collaboration emerged at the intersection of long-term collaborative research into forest conservation failures and the growing health and social issues that accompanied them. Our project brings together leaders from Kuy communities across the forest landscape (approximately 450,000 hectares) and agricultural scientists at the National University of Battambang in Cambodia to conduct experiments on how to populate vulnerable village landscapes with forest foods to enhance health, generational knowledge transmission, and propagation techniques for exotic, delicate, and vital forest plants for medicine and food.
Keywords: Cambodia, indigenous people, forest preservation, trans-disciplinarity, wild edible plants
Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
In response to extreme degradation of forest resources in the Prey Lang Forest of north-central Cambodia, local Kuy indigenous people are collaborating with researchers to re-populate their landscapes with forest plants. This collaboration emerged at the intersection of long-term collaborative research into forest conservation failures and the growing health and social issues that accompanied them. Our project brings together leaders from Kuy communities across the forest landscape (approximately 450,000 hectares) and agricultural scientists at the National University of Battambang in Cambodia to conduct experiments on how to populate vulnerable village landscapes with forest foods to enhance health, generational knowledge transmission, and propagation techniques for exotic, delicate, and vital forest plants for medicine and food.
Keywords: Cambodia, indigenous people, forest preservation, trans-disciplinarity, wild edible plants