NDLI: Folk Classification, Perception, and Preferences of Baobab Products in West Africa: Consequences for Species Conservation and Improvement

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Author	Assogbadjo, A. E. Glèlè Kakaï, R. Chadare, F. J. Thomson, L. Kyndt, T. Sinsin, B. Damme, P.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Folk Classification, Perception, and Preferences of Baobab Products in West Africa: Consequences for Species Conservation and Improvement.The present study is a component of a baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) domestication research program being undertaken in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Senegal. Surveys conducted on a total of 129 women and 281 men of different ages included questions on perceptions and human/cultural meaning of morphological variation, use forms, preferences (desirable/undesirable traits), and links between traits. Local people in the four countries use 21 criteria to differentiate baobab individuals in situ. According to them, the easier the bark harvesting, the tastier the pulp and leaves; the slimier the pulp, the less tasty it is; the more closely longitudinally marked the fruit capsules, the tastier the pulp. This study shows that farmers are able to use preferred combinations of traits as a guide in collecting germplasm from trees. This can allow the selection of trees that would be candidates for propagation, and planning for a domestication program based on the indigenous knowledge.
Starting Page	74
Ending Page	84
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00130001
Journal	Economic Botany
Volume Number	62
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18749364
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2008-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Baobab indigenous knowledge preferences domestication ethnobotanical survey agroforestry West Africa Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Plant Ecology Plant Sciences Life Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Horticulture

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