AGRICULTURE IS VITAL!
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Who Is SEB?…
SEB is the abbreviation for Society for Economic Botany.Â
About The Society for Economic Botany
The Society for Economic Botany (SEB) is about people exploring the uses of, and our relationship with plants, cultures, and our environment—plants and human affairs. our environment—plants and human affairs. You might well call our research and educational efforts, the science of survival.
We were established in 1959 and our mission is to foster and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings and publications.
Membership in SEB is open to all individuals interested in economic botany and in the promotion of research in this field.
With members from across the 50 U.S. states and more than 64 countries around the globe, SEB serves as the world’s largest and most respected professional society for individuals who are concerned with basic botanical, phytochemical, and ethnological studies of plants known to be useful or those which may have potential uses so far undeveloped. It is recognized that the field of economic botany includes all or parts of many established disciplines such as agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, chemistry, economics, ethnobotany, ethnology, forestry, genetic resources, geography, geology, horticulture, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, pharmacognosy, and pharmacology, in addition to the established botanical disciplines.
ECONOMIC BOTANY IS ABOUT PLANTS AND HUMAN AFFAIRS
In a 1958 essay at the conference which was to found the Society for Economic Botany, David J. Rogers wrote, “A current viewpoint is that economic botany should concern itself with basic botanical, phytochemical and ethnological studies of plants known to be useful or those which may have potential uses so far underdeveloped. Economic botany is, then, a composite of those sciences working specifically with plants of importance to [people].” Closely allied with economic botany is ethnobotany, a growing field that emphasizes plants in the context of the anthropological sciences. Some would say that science is what scientists do, perhaps the best definition of economic botany is found in the work presented in our journal and at annual meetings of the Society.
Our publication, ECONOMIC BOTANY, was founded in 1947 by Edmund H. Fulling at the New York Botanical Garden. William J. Robbins, then Director of the Garden, wrote in the first issue that this new botanical magazine would “;….serve as a common meeting place for botanists interested primarily in fundamental principles and others who are concerned with economic applications of those principles and with the industrial utilization of plants and plant products.”
ECONOMIC BOTANY is a quarterly international journal devoted to the publication of original research, review papers, historical studies, and book reviews. Recent issues have included such topics as ethnobotanical and phytochemical studies, research on the origin and evolution of crop plants, the ecology and history of traditional food plants, and studies on arid land plants with potential for local development.
https://www.econbot.org/home/about/about-seb.html
Who Is ISE?…
ISE is an abbreviation for the International Society of Ethnobiology. The International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) is a global, collaborative network of individuals and organizations working to preserve vital links between human societies and the natural world.
Ethnobiologists recognize that indigenous peoples, traditional societies, and local communities are critical to the conservation of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
Central to our mission is creating a space for dialogue, cooperation, and action across diverse languages, cultures, and worldviews. The ISE strives to channel this work into sound research methods, policies, resource use, and decision-making.
The vision of the ISE is reflected in its Code of Ethics, to which all Members are bound. https://www.ethnobiology.net/
