Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar

Peoples belonging to the Betsileo cultural group have established villages and settlements in the Malagasy Central Highlands on the western edge of a forested "corridor" which links the national parks of Ranomafana and Andringitra. Their mixed economy is primarily based on the growing of i...

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Main Authors: Stéphanie M. Carrière, H. Andrianotahiananahary, N. Ranaivoarivelo, J. Randriamalala
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Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2005-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/3047
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author Stéphanie M. Carrière
H. Andrianotahiananahary
N. Ranaivoarivelo
J. Randriamalala
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description Peoples belonging to the Betsileo cultural group have established villages and settlements in the Malagasy Central Highlands on the western edge of a forested "corridor" which links the national parks of Ranomafana and Andringitra. Their mixed economy is primarily based on the growing of irrigated rice, but also partly on the extensive domestic animal breeding and the slash-and-burn cultivation (cassava, sweet potato, corn, bean...) to produce food.  Insofar as the international aid and conservation communities want to stress the ecological importance of the regional of the secondary forests, as well as their important social and economic roles, it is paramount to have baseline data on the local ecological conditions, such as the botanical community occurring in the agricultural secondary forest and regenerating ecotones at the forest edge.  These secondary regrowth or fallow areas, known locally as kapoka, are excellent sites for a variety local bioindicators (succession, seasonality, and soil fertility), as well as local uses of plant resources (wood for heating, cooking, and construction; medicinal and ritual plants).  Through the analysis of local knowledge and the multiple uses of these lands, which are, as the species that compose them, physically and symbolically embedded between the rice plantation and the forest.  We also show the important and ancestral link between these components, which can exist between a ethnic group of rice growers and the Malagasy forest and its trees.
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Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar
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title Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar
title_full Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar
title_fullStr Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar
title_full_unstemmed Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar
title_short Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar
title_sort savoirs et usages des recrus post agricoles du pays betsileo valorisation d une biodiversite oubliee a madagascar
topic Madagascar
uses
knowledge
ecology
ethnobotany
secondary regrowth
url https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/3047
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