Renato Valencia and Carolina Altamirano from PUCE presented results from WP6 (policy component) to people that use and commercialize NTFPs (and to the generel public), in a meeting organized by The Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment. The meeting was held in San Miguel de los Bancos (Northwest Pichincha) in Ecuador. June 25, 2012
EUNOPS XII. May 12-13th, 2012 Sanremo, Italy
With participation from: Anders Barfod, Dennis Pedersen, Bill Baker, Grischa Brokamp
Grischa Brokamp gave a talk at the GfBS2012 Conference (13. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik) in Bonn at Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) February 23 - 25, 2012 Bonn, Germany
The talk was entitled:
Detecting adulteration and population differentiation by PCA and Cluster analysis with fatty acid composition data of Oenocarpus bataua (Arecaceae) mesocarp oil from NW South America.
Max Weigend gave a talk at the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn; entitled "Palmito und Aguaje? Tausend Nutzen für neuweltliche Palmen." - January 11, 2012 Bonn, Germany
Link to museum website
Lucia de la Torre gave a talk at the "Bio trade towards a new development model in Ecuador” course in Quito. This course was organized by the Bio Trade GEF-CAF project, CORPEI and the Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador - November 22 - 23, 2011 Quito, Ecuador
Presentation
Presentation summary
Bio trade brochure
Max Weigend, Moritz Mittelbach and Grischa Brokamp (Bonn) gave a talk on: Neotropical Palm Products - Underutilised Ressources for Marginal Lands ... at the conference Tropentag (tropics day) - October 5 - 7, 2011 Bonn, Germany
Conference website
Abstract of oral presentation
FUB will be represented by Grischa Brokamp in the Botaniker Tagung 2011 - September 18 - 23, 2011 Berlin, Germany
Grischa gave a talk with the title: Trade in Palm products in northwestern South America – bad future prospects for sustainable resource extraction
Link to talk
Conference website
Henrik Balslev participated in V Congreso Colombiano de Botanica - August 11 - 15, 2011 Cali, Colombia. He presented a paper entitled Palmas Americanas, Sistematica y Cambios Climaticos.
Link to abstract (spanish)
Henrik Balslev was invited to speak at the Asia Pacific Science in the 21st Century, Meeting the Challenges of Global Change. June 14 - 18, 2011: Sub theme: Global Change and Ecosystems entitled: Palms, Systematics and Climate.
Official congress website
Link to abstract
EUNOPS XI. April 16 - 17, 2011 Komarov Botanical Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
With participation from: Anders Barfod, Finn Borchsenius, Dennis Pedersen, Bill Baker, Grischa Brokamp
Henrik Balslev participated in 5to Congreso Forestal de Cuba –Bosques para las Persona. April 27 - 29, 2011 Havana, Cuba. He gave a talk entitled: La importancia de Palmas en el oeste de la Cuenca Amazonica.
Official congress website
Link to abstract (spanish)
Biosystematics Berlin 2011 - February 21 - 27, 2011 Berlin, Germany
Grischa Brokamp presented a poster with the title: Native palm oils from NW South America - FA composition of Ecuadorian palm oils and a case study on commercially available mesocarp oil from Oenocarpus bataua (Arecaceae)
FUB acceptance letter
Official congress website
Poster as PDF
II Congreso Etnobiología en Recife - November, 2010 Recife, Brazil
Poster
X Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica - October 4-10, 2010 La Serena, Chile
Official congress website
Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica - speakers
Media report
11th Congress of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, September 20-25, 2010 - Albacete, Spain
XIII National Congress of Botany, September 20-25, 2010 - Lima, Peru
XIII National Congress of Botany
Stakeholders in the use and marketing of palm products in Ecuador, June 10, 2010 - Quito, Ecuador
Stakeholder meeting w. Memoria
XIX Scientific Meeting of the Research Institute for Biological Sciences (ICBAR), August 26-27, 2010 - Lima, Peru
XIX ICBAR SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Green Week (Annual conference on European environment policy) - June 1-4, 2010 - Brussels, Belgium
Official congress website
Palms 2010 - May 5-7, 2010 - Montpellier, France
Official congress website
Image Gallery
Posters presented by FP7-PALMS participants
Workshop on Quantification of Ecosystem Function: Challenges and Benefits - January 28-29, 2010 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Quantification of Ecosystem Function: Challenges and Benefits
EU Southeast Asia Expert Meeting on Conservation and Management of Biodiversity - January 25-27, 2010 Hanoi, Vietnam
Official congress website
First Bolivian botanical congress, October 2009 - Cochabamba, Bolivia
First Bolivian botanical congress
Eunops IX - April 25-26, 2009 Kew, UK
Official congress website