illegal plant trade Archives

NEWS | Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Following an expert workshop on plant blindness and IWT, Margulies and colleagues identified four key challenges

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BLOG | Doing political ecology amidst disaster

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BLOG | Investigating the political lives of plants

Inspired by recent fieldwork in Mexico and the United States, Jared Margulies investigates the political lives of plants & considers why 'plant blindness' still prevails in illegal wildlife trade research.

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PAPER | Revisiting moral economy and seeking mob justice: Security and the vanilla commodity chain in Madagascar

Ben Neimark's paper explores the link between the international trade in plants and security dynamics.

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