An Ethnobotany Research Training Workshop in Madagascar

Abstract

A consortium of conservation groups organized by the Mis-souri Botanical Garden in 2005 responded to a call for de-velopment of conservation areas in Madgascar that would include human communities within them by arranging for a training workshop on ethnobotanical research methods. The authors developed and implemented the workshop with sixteen participating Malagasy researchers. The con-tent of the workshop and analyses of classroom and field components is provided. The workshop participants con-cluded that the process was very useful for their work in conservation of biological diversity and determined to continue to develop their skills in ethnobotanical research as a group of collaborating scholars.