M P Temudo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 28646 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M P Temudo |
| PRENOMES | M P |
| SOBRENOME | Temudo |
| ASSINATURA | TEMUDO M P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8254-4233 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Varieties, seed systems, and experimentation
This paper explores farmers’ preferences and practices in relation to rice variety selection and management, and reports on a step-by-step experimentation with varieties in southern Guinea-Bissau. We used a mixed-methods and transdisciplinary approach from 2021–2023 to better understand why the poor uptake of formally introduced varieties persists despite a long track of research and interventions in the mangrove swamp rice (MSR) agroecosystem. W…
Analysis of Endogenous Strategies to Establish Rice Crops in Mangrove Swamp Fields
We documented and analyzed endogenous farmers’ knowledge and practices regarding sowing methods in mangrove swamp rice (MSR) farming in Southern Guinea-Bissau. Although many external interventions in MSR farming have occurred since colonial times, little is known about which techniques farmers use, and why, and when they establish their crops. To address this knowledge gap, we used a mixed-methods, transdisciplinary approach that combined technog…
The need for social impacts analysis in smallholders' AR4D
Bridging Knowledges and Practice
Drifting Away from the Roots
Biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, globalization, and societal transformations are challenging rural, and especially coastal communities in Guinea-Bissau where mangrove-dependent livelihoods are exposed to increased vulnerability. The Diola, traditional farmer-fishermen of the northern island-villages, have witnessed swift societal changes following the country's economic liberalization, climate change, and youth migration from rural areas. …
Rooted in the Mangrove Landscape
Biomonitoring fish species losses in data-deficient estuaries of West Africa can be facilitated by consulting small-scale fishermen as on-the-spot sentinels. Children are often prominent fishing actors in rural societies, but scientific studies looking at their ethnoichthyological knowledge are lacking. This study examines childhood fish knowledge inside a Diola village in Northern Guinea-Bissau, discussing how gendered division of labor affects …
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict
Climate-related conflicts, although expected to also cause cross-border tensions/fights and intra-state civil strife among Southern countries, have been mostly framed as a problem for the rich Global North citizens produced by the poor, more environmentally vulnerable Global South potential migrants. However, violence under a climate change scenario might be more frequently expressed as small-scale and local level 'invisible' uprisings and armed …
The Sea Swallowed our Houses and Rice Fields
Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola
Bio-cultural fire regions of Guinea-Bissau
The shade of religion
This article focuses on the Kyangyang (‘the shadows’ or ‘the shades’), a prophetic movement that emerged in Guinea-Bissau in 1984, in which ‘animistic’ Balanta farmers-and-herders learned to pray as Muslims and Christians do. We want to propose that (a) more attention needs to be paid to religious movements that bridge the polarisation between Islam and Christianity in West Africa and (b) a broader focus on the overall pluralistic setting is nece…
Petro-Landscapes
Dynamics of change in a 'female farming system', Mbanza Kongo/Northern Angola
The inhabitants of the Zaire Province of northern Angola, belonging to different subgroups of the Bakongo, offer an interesting case to study social and agricultural change in what Boserup would call a traditional 'female farming system'. Since the 1930s, several factors have produced multiple dynamics of change - sometimes abrupt and other times gradual - in both livelihoods and the gender relations of agricultural production. Of these, the pape…
Between 'forced marriage' and 'free choice
African women are frequently portrayed as a subaltern group in need of external support, used as property in forging social relations, producing wealth in people and doing most of the agricultural work to feed household members in societies where 'modernization' does not always seem to change their unfortunate predicament. This article destabilizes such narratives by showing the complexities of marriage practices and the difficult dialectics betw…
Men wielding the plough
This paper is centred on the fast-track changes occurring among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau-at present, the only ethnic group in West Africa still able to produce a mangrove swamp rice surplus with a manual plough-in their traditionally intensive farming system and their social organization, and on the consequences that these changes have had for gender relations, especially with regard to married women's spatial mobility, sexual and economic in…
The Social Dynamics of Mangrove Forests in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hounds in Guinea-Bissau
À l'aide d'une étude de cas détaillée du travail d'une ONG locale en Guinée-Bissau et des différents rôles que jouent les acteurs concernés, cet article montre à quel point les oppositions binaires conventionnelles entre domination et résistance, donateurs tout puissants au Nord et organisations locales de développement sans défense, ou encore entre État et société civile sont inadéquates. Les stratégies des paysans sont le reflet de leur désillu…
The Pen and the Plough
Up until the late 1990s, the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau constituted what could be described as a 'deep rural society', whose central identity was linked with rice production and cattle accumulation. At the same time, it could be argued that even in the early days after Independence in 1974, the social aspirations of Balanta young men matched those of other Guinean youths in their shared desire to get away from the strictures of gerontocracy and of …
The Cashew Frontier in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Changing Policies, Shifting Livelihoods
How do African agricultural livelihoods change under stressful conditions? How do market and agricultural policies and development interventions impact on both agricultural and social change, and consequently on food self-sufficiency? Which long-term factors can contribute to 'depeasantization'? Is the 'New Green Revolution' the best and only solution for African food insecurity? These are the main questions this paper sets out to address, using …
"The White Men Bought the Forests"
Both fortress and community-based approaches to conservation have shown poor (sometimes negative) results in terms of environmental protection and poverty reduction. Either approach can also trigger grassroots resistance. This article is centered on an allegedly 'community-based' conservation and development project (and its successive follow-ups) intended to create a national park in Guinea-Bissau. It discusses how external agents have construct…
Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice
Planting Knowledge, Harvesting Agro-Biodiversity
A narrativa da degradação ambiental no Sul da Guiné-Bissau
Neste artigo, através de um estudo de caso, é analisada a complexidade da relação entre crescimento populacional, agricultura e gestão sustentável dos recursos naturais e o reducionismo das designadas “narrativas da degradação ambiental”. Do ponto de vista epistemológico e metodológico pretende‐se também demonstrar as vantagens da investigação empírica de cariz etnográfico e do seu complemento com a técnica de detecção remota e os sistemas de in…
From the Margins of the State to the Presidential Palace
Balanta farmers of Guinea-Bissau are often regarded by neighboring communities as "backward" and as a people who have refused modern life-worlds. Despite the fact that these farmers played a very important role in the making of Guinea-Bissau, they were progressively removed from power after independence. However, they also developed original forms of contesting marginality. This article portrays the Balanta as complex historical subjects with str…
From the Margins of the State to the Presidential Palace
Balanta farmers of Guinea-Bissau are often regarded by neighboring communities as "backward" and as a people who have refused modern life-worlds. Despite the fact that these farmers played a very important role in the making of Guinea-Bissau, they were progressively removed from power after independence. However, they also developed original forms of contesting marginality. This article portrays the Balanta as complex historical subjects with str…
Changing Policies, Shifting Livelihoods
How do African agricultural livelihoods change under stressful conditions? How do market and agricultural policies and development interventions impact on both agricultural and social change, and consequently on food self-sufficiency? Which long-term factors can contribute to 'depeasantization'? Is the 'New Green Revolution' the best and only solution for African food insecurity? These are the main questions this paper sets out to address, using …
The Pen and the Plough
Up until the late 1990s, the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau constituted what could be described as a 'deep rural society', whose central identity was linked with rice production and cattle accumulation. At the same time, it could be argued that even in the early days after Independence in 1974, the social aspirations of Balanta young men matched those of other Guinean youths in their shared desire to get away from the strictures of gerontocracy and of …
The Cashew Frontier in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Planting Knowledge, Harvesting Agro-Biodiversity
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict
Climate-related conflicts, although expected to also cause cross-border tensions/fights and intra-state civil strife among Southern countries, have been mostly framed as a problem for the rich Global North citizens produced by the poor, more environmentally vulnerable Global South potential migrants. However, violence under a climate change scenario might be more frequently expressed as small-scale and local level 'invisible' uprisings and armed …
Between 'forced marriage' and 'free choice
African women are frequently portrayed as a subaltern group in need of external support, used as property in forging social relations, producing wealth in people and doing most of the agricultural work to feed household members in societies where 'modernization' does not always seem to change their unfortunate predicament. This article destabilizes such narratives by showing the complexities of marriage practices and the difficult dialectics betw…
Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice
Rooted in the Mangrove Landscape
Biomonitoring fish species losses in data-deficient estuaries of West Africa can be facilitated by consulting small-scale fishermen as on-the-spot sentinels. Children are often prominent fishing actors in rural societies, but scientific studies looking at their ethnoichthyological knowledge are lacking. This study examines childhood fish knowledge inside a Diola village in Northern Guinea-Bissau, discussing how gendered division of labor affects …
Men wielding the plough
This paper is centred on the fast-track changes occurring among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau-at present, the only ethnic group in West Africa still able to produce a mangrove swamp rice surplus with a manual plough-in their traditionally intensive farming system and their social organization, and on the consequences that these changes have had for gender relations, especially with regard to married women's spatial mobility, sexual and economic in…
Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hounds in Guinea-Bissau
À l'aide d'une étude de cas détaillée du travail d'une ONG locale en Guinée-Bissau et des différents rôles que jouent les acteurs concernés, cet article montre à quel point les oppositions binaires conventionnelles entre domination et résistance, donateurs tout puissants au Nord et organisations locales de développement sans défense, ou encore entre État et société civile sont inadéquates. Les stratégies des paysans sont le reflet de leur désillu…
Disintegration and Resilience of Agrarian Societies in Africa - the Importance of Social and Genetic Resources
The disintegration of African agrarian societies is partly caused by the dissipative economy of development aid and becomes more visible in wartime. The resilience of agrarian societies constitutes thus an important resource for the whole country. Their capacity to maintain stability and a productive agricultural potential can ensure the survival of urban populations driven from the cities in time of war. The potential for reconstruction of these…
Dynamics of change in a 'female farming system', Mbanza Kongo/Northern Angola
The inhabitants of the Zaire Province of northern Angola, belonging to different subgroups of the Bakongo, offer an interesting case to study social and agricultural change in what Boserup would call a traditional 'female farming system'. Since the 1930s, several factors have produced multiple dynamics of change - sometimes abrupt and other times gradual - in both livelihoods and the gender relations of agricultural production. Of these, the pape…
Bridging Knowledges and Practice
Disintegration and Resilience of Agrarian Societies in Africa - the Importance of Social and Genetic Resources
The disintegration of African agrarian societies is partly caused by the dissipative economy of development aid and becomes more visible in wartime. The resilience of agrarian societies constitutes thus an important resource for the whole country. Their capacity to maintain stability and a productive agricultural potential can ensure the survival of urban populations driven from the cities in time of war. The potential for reconstruction of these…
Cultura, agri-cultura e cultura política no sul da Guiné-Bissau
Uma abordagem
From 'People's Struggle' to 'This War of Today'
This article aims at contributing to our understanding of violence and warfare in contemporary West Africa by adopting a bi-focal analysis that looks both at power struggles within the urban elite and at the grassroots multi-ethnic setting in southern Guinea-Bissau. I pay close attention to the social dynamics of rural peoples' perspectives, coping strategies and inter-ethnic conflicts. Local conflicts are elucidated as an ongoing process that tr…
From ‘People's Struggle’ to ‘This War of Today’
This article aims at contributing to our understanding of violence and warfare in contemporary West Africa by adopting a bi-focal analysis that looks both at power struggles within the urban elite and at the grassroots multi-ethnic setting in southern Guinea-Bissau. I pay close attention to the social dynamics of rural peoples' perspectives, coping strategies and inter-ethnic conflicts. Local conflicts are elucidated as an ongoing process that tr…
De serviçal a camponês
Neste trabalho pretende-se ilustrar como as profundas mudanças políticas ocorridas durante as últimas décadas em São Tomé e Príncipe não transportaram consigo uma maior inclusão social, mas pelo contrário reproduziram os padrões de desigualdade criados na época colonial. A persistente estigmatização dos anteriores trabalhadores das roças, hoje convertidos em pequenos agricultores após o processo de privatização da terra, continua a ser um traço m…
A narrativa da degradação ambiental no Sul da Guiné-Bissau
Neste artigo, através de um estudo de caso, é analisada a complexidade da relação entre crescimento populacional, agricultura e gestão sustentável dos recursos naturais e o reducionismo das designadas “narrativas da degradação ambiental”. Do ponto de vista epistemológico e metodológico pretende‐se também demonstrar as vantagens da investigação empírica de cariz etnográfico e do seu complemento com a técnica de detecção remota e os sistemas de in…
From the Margins of the State to the Presidential Palace
Balanta farmers of Guinea-Bissau are often regarded by neighboring communities as "backward" and as a people who have refused modern life-worlds. Despite the fact that these farmers played a very important role in the making of Guinea-Bissau, they were progressively removed from power after independence. However, they also developed original forms of contesting marginality. This article portrays the Balanta as complex historical subjects with str…
Planting Knowledge, Harvesting Agro-Biodiversity
"The White Men Bought the Forests"
Both fortress and community-based approaches to conservation have shown poor (sometimes negative) results in terms of environmental protection and poverty reduction. Either approach can also trigger grassroots resistance. This article is centered on an allegedly 'community-based' conservation and development project (and its successive follow-ups) intended to create a national park in Guinea-Bissau. It discusses how external agents have construct…
Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice
Changing Policies, Shifting Livelihoods
How do African agricultural livelihoods change under stressful conditions? How do market and agricultural policies and development interventions impact on both agricultural and social change, and consequently on food self-sufficiency? Which long-term factors can contribute to 'depeasantization'? Is the 'New Green Revolution' the best and only solution for African food insecurity? These are the main questions this paper sets out to address, using …
The Cashew Frontier in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hounds in Guinea-Bissau
À l'aide d'une étude de cas détaillée du travail d'une ONG locale en Guinée-Bissau et des différents rôles que jouent les acteurs concernés, cet article montre à quel point les oppositions binaires conventionnelles entre domination et résistance, donateurs tout puissants au Nord et organisations locales de développement sans défense, ou encore entre État et société civile sont inadéquates. Les stratégies des paysans sont le reflet de leur désillu…
The Pen and the Plough
Up until the late 1990s, the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau constituted what could be described as a 'deep rural society', whose central identity was linked with rice production and cattle accumulation. At the same time, it could be argued that even in the early days after Independence in 1974, the social aspirations of Balanta young men matched those of other Guinean youths in their shared desire to get away from the strictures of gerontocracy and of …
The Social Dynamics of Mangrove Forests in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Men wielding the plough
This paper is centred on the fast-track changes occurring among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau-at present, the only ethnic group in West Africa still able to produce a mangrove swamp rice surplus with a manual plough-in their traditionally intensive farming system and their social organization, and on the consequences that these changes have had for gender relations, especially with regard to married women's spatial mobility, sexual and economic in…
Petro-Landscapes
Dynamics of change in a 'female farming system', Mbanza Kongo/Northern Angola
The inhabitants of the Zaire Province of northern Angola, belonging to different subgroups of the Bakongo, offer an interesting case to study social and agricultural change in what Boserup would call a traditional 'female farming system'. Since the 1930s, several factors have produced multiple dynamics of change - sometimes abrupt and other times gradual - in both livelihoods and the gender relations of agricultural production. Of these, the pape…
Between 'forced marriage' and 'free choice
African women are frequently portrayed as a subaltern group in need of external support, used as property in forging social relations, producing wealth in people and doing most of the agricultural work to feed household members in societies where 'modernization' does not always seem to change their unfortunate predicament. This article destabilizes such narratives by showing the complexities of marriage practices and the difficult dialectics betw…
Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola
Bio-cultural fire regions of Guinea-Bissau
The shade of religion
This article focuses on the Kyangyang (‘the shadows’ or ‘the shades’), a prophetic movement that emerged in Guinea-Bissau in 1984, in which ‘animistic’ Balanta farmers-and-herders learned to pray as Muslims and Christians do. We want to propose that (a) more attention needs to be paid to religious movements that bridge the polarisation between Islam and Christianity in West Africa and (b) a broader focus on the overall pluralistic setting is nece…
The Sea Swallowed our Houses and Rice Fields
Rooted in the Mangrove Landscape
Biomonitoring fish species losses in data-deficient estuaries of West Africa can be facilitated by consulting small-scale fishermen as on-the-spot sentinels. Children are often prominent fishing actors in rural societies, but scientific studies looking at their ethnoichthyological knowledge are lacking. This study examines childhood fish knowledge inside a Diola village in Northern Guinea-Bissau, discussing how gendered division of labor affects …
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict
Climate-related conflicts, although expected to also cause cross-border tensions/fights and intra-state civil strife among Southern countries, have been mostly framed as a problem for the rich Global North citizens produced by the poor, more environmentally vulnerable Global South potential migrants. However, violence under a climate change scenario might be more frequently expressed as small-scale and local level 'invisible' uprisings and armed …
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