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A Brazilian family toasts farina
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The Institute of Economic Botany
A Focus on Human Needs
The NYBG Institute of Economic Botany (IEB) was founded in 1981, to focus a portion of the Garden's research enterprise on applied botanical questions of great human concern. The field of economic botany, with its allied discipline ethnobotany, involves the study of the relationship between plants and people. Economic botanists pursue research projects on useful plants, from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
The projects of the IEB encompass seven principal activities, each supporting the primary mission of the IEB: understanding the relationship between plants and people.
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Collecting and identifying plants, and gathering information on their uses through field research focused in the tropics. |
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Studying natural resource management on regional and national levels. |
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Conducting basic and applied research on useful plants. |
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Conserving biological diversity through habitat preservation and germplasm collection. |
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Disseminating research results and information to the scientific community and to the general public. |
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Teaching students and training specialists in economic botany. |
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Strengthening the capacity of institutions worldwide to advance research in economic botany. |
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IEB Field Activities |
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Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Indonesia
Martinique
Micronesia
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Thailand
United States
Virgin Islands
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