The presentation of the CESAB group NETSEED at the 2016 french ecology conference in the FRB-CESAB session "Using a treasury of knowledge to tackle complex ecological questions." Presented by Mathieu Thomas.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ppt on laws of environmental law
NETSEED : a cross-disciplinary project to analyse how small farms contribute to global agrobiodiversity.
1. NETSEED : a cross-disciplinary project to
analyse how small farms contribute to global
agrobiodiversity
Mathieu THOMAS, Nicolas VERZELEN, Pierre BARBILLON,
NetSeed consortium
Dynamiques de la Diversité, Sociétés et Environnements (DDSE)
UMR AGAP, CIRAD
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2. NETSEED project (2011-2014)
1 Aims and introduction
2 Team and disciplinary scope
3 Major outcomes
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3. Aims and introduction Aims
Strengthening management of agrobiodiversity
through social networks
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Aim
An interdisciplinary method for analyzing how local seed systems impact
the diversity of domesticated plants
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4. Aims and introduction Introduction
Dataset presentation (1/2)
A) Inventories of crop
diversity : 50 datasets
B) Inventories of seed
circulation : 5 datasets
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6. Aims and introduction Introduction
Research questions
Is agrobiodiversity randomly distributed at the local scale ?
Do some farmers contribute significantly to the global
agrobiodiversity ?
Is seed circulation at random among farmers ?
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7. Team and disciplinary scope Team
NETSEED Team
French participants
Other participants
Coordinators Postdocs
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8. Team and disciplinary scope Disciplinary scope
Disciplinary scope : an interdisciplinary challenge !
Social and Human Sciences : anthropologists, geographers, ethnobiologists
Plant Sciences : ecologists, geneticists, agronomists
Our differences:
• Vocabulary
• Research questions
• Fieldwork methods
Our common interests :
• Agrobiodiversity
• Seed circulation
• Network analysis
Credits : CESAB
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9. Major outcomes New insights
New insights (1/2) : crop distribution
Species/landraces
Farmer
Species/landraces
Farmer
Species/landraces
Farmer
# GroupsPatterns
Plant: 1
Farmer: 1
Plant: 2-4
Farmer: 1
Plant: 2-4
Farmer: 2-4
Total
Intra-
species
Inter-
species
4
16
3
23
0
2
16
18
4
25
3
32
0
2
16
18
Conclusions
1 Crop diversity is not distributed
at random
2 Some farmers contribute
significantly to the global
diversity
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10. Major outcomes New insights
New insights (2/2) : seed circulation
Conclusions
1 Crop circulation is not at random
2 Actor status and biocultural properties of plants impact network
characteristics
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11. Major outcomes Key achievements only possible through the synthesis approach
Key achievements : “meta-knowledge”
Acquisistion
Creation of a collective thesaurus to characterize seed circulation
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12. Major outcomes Major products
Major products (1/2)
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13. Major outcomes Major products
Major products (2/2)
Round-table organization at the 13th Congress of the
International Society for Ethnobiology, Montpellier, May 2012
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14. Major outcomes Major products
Major products (2/2)
Round-table organization at the 13th Congress of the
International Society for Ethnobiology, Montpellier, May 2012
Thesaurus about seed circulation (paper in prep.)
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15. Major outcomes Major products
Major products (2/2)
Round-table organization at the 13th Congress of the
International Society for Ethnobiology, Montpellier, May 2012
Thesaurus about seed circulation (paper in prep.)
Stochastic model of seed circulation (paper in prep.)
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16. Major outcomes Major products
Major products (2/2)
Round-table organization at the 13th Congress of the
International Society for Ethnobiology, Montpellier, May 2012
Thesaurus about seed circulation (paper in prep.)
Stochastic model of seed circulation (paper in prep.)
Raw datasets in open access (http://netseed.cesab.org/)
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17. Major outcomes Major products
Major products (2/2)
Round-table organization at the 13th Congress of the
International Society for Ethnobiology, Montpellier, May 2012
Thesaurus about seed circulation (paper in prep.)
Stochastic model of seed circulation (paper in prep.)
Raw datasets in open access (http://netseed.cesab.org/)
R code in open access (R package in prep.)
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18. Major outcomes Major products
Thank you for your attention !
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Credits : BEDE-ASPSP
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Credits : BEDE-ASPSP
Credits : D. McKey & S. Caillon
Credits : S. Caillon
Credits : S. Caillon
Credits : D. McKey & S. Caillon
Credits : D. McKey & S. Caillon
Credits : D. McKey & S. Caillon
Credits : A. Barnaud
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