A project coordinated by Nicolas Lainé.

The BufFarm project focuses on extensive buffalo farming among the Lua (Prai) in Nan Province (Thailand). Grounded in Anthropology the project has a strong participatory dimension. Rather than considering  local knowledge solely as a source of data they constitute research partners. The project started with a collective ethnography which helped in describing herder’s practices and understanding the local context.  This allowed scientific acculturation and  fostered dialogue between the herders and the various disciplines involved (anthropology, botany and ecology). The project is currently engaged on various aspects such as the exploration of buffalo diet and medicine in relation with ethnomedicine, an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)  targeting the role of buffalo for forest regeneration, the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance genes in the area, as well as an indeepth analysis the co-evolution of Lua and Buffalos.

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