The Caribbean is a hotspot of biological and cultural diversity, manifested in traditional plant
knowledge of Afrodescendant peoples and other ethnicities. To strengthen the visibility of …

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting
stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world's leading ethnobotanists argue that …

“Engaging unique sources... Londa Schiebinger untangles the complex relationships
between European and local physicians, healers, plants, and slavery.”—François Regourd …

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread
throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Considerable medicinal plant research in Brazil has
focused on indigenous and mixed-race (caboclo and caiçara) communities, but relatively …

How did the forced migration of nearly 11 million enslaved Africans to the Americas
influence their knowledge of plants? Vernacular plant names give insight into the process of …

American plants play significant roles in Sub-Saharan African societies as foods, raw
materials, medicines and ornamentals. Adopted over the past 500 years in the context of the …

African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and African cultivation practices are said to have influenced
emerging colonial plantation economies in the Americas 1, 2. However, the level of impact of …

The ancestral knowledge of the community of Colón Putumayo unfolds in several
dimensions that allow us to recognise the ethnomedicinal properties of plants. The research …

This paper examines the long-term development of palm oil landscapes in the northeastern
Brazilian state of Bahia. In contrast to the agroindustrial monocultures that dominate global …