Robert Rhoades, Ph.D.
Anthropology
Phone: (706) 542-1042
rrhoades@uga.edu

As a natural resource anthropologist, I am interested in the underlying sociocultural and demographic forces which shape people's decision-making toward agriculture and the environment. Ongoing projects involve research among four ethnic groups living around the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve in northwestern Ecuador, a study of landraces biodiversity preservation in the American South, and the development of information databases on potato and peanut. In addition, I have a long-term research relationship with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, where a major project on environmental characterization of the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region is just getting underway.

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