Video 43 in the Introduction to Ethnobotany series. Presented by Orou Gaoué.

Africa is the second largest continent and has the second largest rainforest block. Africa has diverse plant resources and indigenous communities that still rely largely on plants for their livelihood. This episode discusses uses and management of plant resources in West Africa in three parts: First, are presented the distribution of ecological variation and human population density in Africa. People populate mostly the savannah region of the continent, leaving the vast infertile desert and the harsh rainforest regions less populated. Increasing population density and its concentration in the savannah areas is, among other reasons, responsible for high forest degradation rates and high plant harvesting impact in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, the different indigenous uses of plant resources are reviewed: food, medicine and cosmetic, fodder, firewood and charcoal, building and timber. There is a severe firewood crisis in the region and harvesting non-timber forest products such as tree fodder, tree bark for medicine, is participating to the degradation of the forest. Third is an analysis of indigenous as well as government management strategies of forest and forest resources. Sacred forests and agroforestry parklands are some of the traditional ways of conserving plant species of local interest. The state management strategy has shift from an official protectionism of the state reserve forest, to a more participatory approach, although the level of implication of indigenous people has varied over the years.

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Strong Medicine : The Secret Power of African Healing
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Journey To The Market And The Root Of It All



Bush Tea, Herbs, Plants and Botanical Stories is a five-part video series taking viewers on a journey of discovery into the benefits, traditional uses and even folklore of local herbs, plants and grasses.

Voici la publication du vendredi, jour dédié aux inspirations de la Poésie française :
Un documentaire d’Ange Casta diffusé sur la 1ère chaîne, le 7 septembre 1969, dans l’émission « Un certain regard ».
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Entretien avec son Excellence Amadou Hampâté Bâ, un des interprètes les plus authentiques du génie de la tradition orale africaine. Il est donc un interlocuteur particulièrement capable d'effectuer une synthèse vivante de la réalité africaine, et de la faire découvrir à ceux qui l'ignorent. C'est lui qui est l'auteur de la formule devenue célèbre : "En Afrique, quand un vieux meurt, c'est une bibliothèque qui flambe". L'émission qui lui est consacrée veut mettre en évidence la grande richesse de ses connaissances et l'apport de son message d'Africain éclairé au patrimoine universel de la culture. Amadou Hampâté Bâ est un de ces derniers traditionnalistes qui vont disparaître et son témoignage constitue à ce titre un précieux document sur l'Afrique. Il rappelle que "la culture africaine est d'ordre spécifiquement oral ; la colonisation, l'alphabétisation, et à un niveau différent, le travail ethnologique, ont brisé les ressorts qui permettaient à cette culture de se perpétuer et de se développer". En attendant, Amadou Hampâté Bâ veut mobiliser les esprits pour que tout soit enregistré et filmé. C'est d'ailleurs ce qu'il fait ici lui-même, avec intelligence et humour. En ethnologue et en poète, il nous explique les modes selon lesquels les jeunes sont initiés, et en quoi la transmission du savoir est indépendante du savoir lui-même. Les âges de la vie, les cérémonie de circoncision, tout est prétexe à chants et à création collective. Amadou Hampâté Bâ chante et récite les poèmes et les contes qui se transmettent depuis des générations. Il évoque le lion et l'univers extraordinaire qui entoure sa capture. Il raconte avec humour comment les africains mentent aux ethnologues. Mais c'est quand il parle de la femme et de l'éthique africaine qu'il est peut-être le plus émouvant.

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- Lundi : modèles antiques (poètes de la Bible, de la Grèce ou de la Rome antique) ;
- Mardi : poésie médiévale ;
- Mercredi : poètes de la Renaissance ;
- Jeudi : poètes de l'Âge classique et baroque ;
- Vendredi : inspirations étrangères (du Dolce stil novo à la Beat Generation) ;
- Samedi : poètes de la Modernité ;
- Dimanche : poètes du XXème siècle ou poésie vivante.]

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Agriculture Commercialisation and the Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana

Peasant Farmer Association calls for more government support.

With his pilgrim's staff and Panama hat, Father Godfrey Nzamujo nips up and down the paths of Songhai, the organic farm he created nearly 30 years ago as a tool against poverty and rural migration in Africa. Duration: 02:21

Zimbabwe's facing its worst drought in more than a century. The crisis is spurring the need for innovative farming ideas, and some are turning to hydroponics. Adesewa Josh reports.
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In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis.

Much of the planet relies on groundwater. And in places around the world – from the United States to Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America – so much water is pumped from the ground that aquifers are being rapidly depleted and wells are going dry.

Groundwater is disappearing beneath cornfields in Kansas, rice paddies in India, asparagus farms in Peru and orange groves in Morocco. As these critical water reserves are pumped beyond their limits, the threats are mounting for people who depend on aquifers to supply agriculture, sustain economies and provide drinking water. In some areas, fields have already turned to dust and farmers are struggling.

Climate change is projected to increase the stresses on water supplies, and heated disputes are erupting in places where those with deep wells can keep pumping and leave others with dry wells. Even as satellite measurements have revealed the problem’s severity on a global scale, many regions have failed to adequately address the problem. Aquifers largely remain unmanaged and unregulated, and water that seeped underground over tens of thousands of years is being gradually used up.

In this documentary, USA TODAY and The Desert Sun investigate the consequences of this emerging crisis in several of the world’s hotspots of groundwater depletion. These are stories about people on four continents confronting questions of how to safeguard their aquifers for the future – and in some cases, how to cope as the water runs out.
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The Danube, one of the most remarkable rivers in Europe, contains many secrets. Not just underwater, but also along its course through Austria. In one small section of in Lower Austria the body of water has an infl uence on the surrounding landscape, which has even formed its own microclimate. One speaks of so-called "heat islands" with temperatures that reach nearly Mediterranean levels. Human beings have created a cultural landscape oriented to viticulture over a period of millennia. This is because the warm loess and clay soil promotes the flourishing of grapevines. However, not only crop plants grow there: since primeval times, flora and fauna have settled here that have no rival in Europe. They are all species that live on the slopes of the Danube mainly due to the mild temperatures, and which are often found nowhere else. This documentary follows in the tracks of the widest variety of creatures in the Mediterranean section of the Danube. Among others, the largest lizar, the largest snake in Central Europe, the western green lizard and the Aesculapian snake will be encountered; the audience is invited to take part in the family life of ground squirrels, learn that the heat islands even have their own local species of scorpion, and encounter the praying mantis, the saga pedo or the wasp spider. However, not only the animal kingdom is fascinating. Many fi eld orchids, which are threatened with extinction almost everywhere else, find a final refuge on the slopes of the Wachau Valley. The most colourful European bird, the bee-eater, still broods here in the last remaining colonies. The entire region was named a World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site in 2000.
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