Eliot Masters
His professional and research interests have mainly centred on his technical supervision and support for commercialisation of indigenous natural products with a particular focus on partnerships with local communities and non-governmental organisations.
Agricultural Biodiversity
The central point of investigation in my research over the past five years (and indeed over the past several decades of my professional career in international development) is the agricultural biodiversity of natural products, traditional food plants and landrace crops within smallholder tropical agriculture, along the interface between plant biodiversity and its human management. My work supports sustainable management of agricultural biodiversity, and systemic resilience to the effects of global climate change. Less tangibly, my work valorises and reinforces traditional knowledge systems against the global anthropic effects of cultural erosion, disruption and discontinuity.
