Society for Ethnobotany

Our first issue under the new title: "Ethnobotany and Economic Botany" has been published!

Log into your account at ethnobotany.org to check out this exciting release, with topics from the medicinal Orchid trade in Nepal, to the conservation of Wild Olive in Ethiopia.

Check out this paper on urban foraging in Indonesia in our last Special Issue of Economic Botany! Log in at ethnobotany.org to access this and so much more 🌿

From medicinal plants and ancient crops to colonial histories and recovered knowledge, brings together voices reshaping how we understand human-plant relationships today.

TINDE VAN ANDEL
Tinde van Andel joins SEB 2026 in Montpellier for a special lecture marking her recognition as the 2026 recipient of the Distinguished Ethnobotanist Award. A professor of Ethnobotany at Leiden University and senior researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, her work traces the movement of medicinal plants, crops, and knowledge systems between Suriname, the Caribbean, and West and Central Africa, while recovering histories obscured by colonialism.

3 June 2026, 18h
Auditorium, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, La Panacée, Montpellier

To learn more about all of our keynote speakers, visit: https://ethnobotany.org/home/meetings/ethnobotany-2026/keynote-speakers.html

From Indigenous rights and agroecology to biocultural diversity, climate adaptation, and the politics of plant knowledge, brings together voices reshaping how we understand human-plant relationships today.

KENZA BENABDERRAZIK
Researcher and lecturer at ETH Zürich, Kenza Benabderrazik works at the intersection of agroecology, political ecology, and art-science collaboration. Her practice explores food systems, water governance, and agroecological transitions through feminist and decolonial perspectives, while building new platforms between researchers, artists, and communities.

Lecture Title:
Cultivating a Third Space: Experimental Pathways for Agroecological Transformation
2 June 2026, 9h
Amphithéâtre Charles Flahaut, Institut de Botanique, Montpellier

To learn more about all of our keynote speakers, visit: https://ethnobotany.org/home/meetings/ethnobotany-2026/keynote-speakers.html