Congo Ba-Aka Semi-Nomadic Forest People Project

$50K USD

Funder	Department of State
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of State
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Start Date	Jan 13, 2003
End Date	Sep 10, 2005
Duration	971 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`76950-48`

Grant Description

Funding will save the Congo Ba-Aka culture through the documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge and the promotion of transfer of traditional knowledge to a younger generation of Ba-Aka. The Ba-Aka are a semi-nomadic forest people threatened by logging and globalization.