About me
I am a mixture of agronomist, botanist, linguist, historian and ethnobotanist (and cook), specialized in the history and the uses of cultivated plants.
I first spent ten years advising French exporters of fruit and vegetables. Then, I worked at the French Bureau des ressources génétiques, and participated in international negociations of what resulted in the Convention of Biological Diversity (UNEP) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (FAO). I acted then as scientific adviser of Agropolis-Museum in Montpellier, a museum dedicated to the agricultures and the food systems of the world. In 2010, I joined the botany lab AMAP to develop Pl@ntUse, a collaborative wiki on useful plants.
My thesis was on the names of Cruciferae crops in European languages, with André-Georges Haudricourt.
