Project Type
Date
April 2021
Research Themes
Researchers are working with local communities in one of the world’s most biodiverse and critically endangered coastal regions to document the distribution, abundance, and decline of farafatse, a key economic tree species.
A team of researchers is engaging local, Indigenous and descendant (LID) communities in coastal SW Madagascar in ethnobotanical documentation and participatory mapping of farafatse (Givotia madagascariensis), a key economic tree species endemic to the region whose timber is preferentially used to make traditional lakambezo fishing boats. This project will provide the first documentation of farafatse distribution and abundance and investigate drivers and implications of population decline on livelihood sustainability in one of the world’s most biodiverse and critically endangered coastal regions.
Researchers
Kristina Douglass
Kristina Douglass
Former Assistant Professor, Anthropology
