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African Rice in the Amazon with Dr. Tinde van Andel
Foodie Pharmacology Podcast
English - October 26, 2020 17:38 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsScience emoryuniversity ethnopharmacology foodie foodmedicine medicinalfood stem Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Tracing relationships between people and plants in the Himalayas
I speak with Dr. Tinde van Andel, an ethnobotanist that studies the traditional uses of crops and medicinal plants from Africa to South America. She shares the incredible story of how enslaved African women hid special rice varieties and other crop seeds in their hair braids in their escape from plantations to the forest, where thriving Maroon communities were established and persist today in Suriname. Prof. van Andel explains how her team and collaborators used interdisciplinary tools from the examination of historic records, herbarium samples, ethnobotanical interviews and genomics approaches to unravel this fascinating history of this important African crop.
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