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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Douglas La Rose: Douglas is an anthropologist, archaeologist and agriculturalist who has been working in rural Africa since 2005. He received his M.A in Applied Anthropology from San Diego State University in 2011 after conducting an extensive quantitative and qualitative research project on agricultural adaptations to environmental change in the Volta Region of Ghana. Douglas has extensive experience in agriculture, having managed an agroforestry project in Ghana that focuses on sustainable cocoa, plantain, banana, and palm nut production. Douglas has also written and published numerous articles on archaeology, agriculture, climate change, and environmental anthropology. Douglas works as a cultural resource management archaeologist in California, with a strong interest in proto-historic archaeology and exchange systems. Douglas was an agroforestry Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana from 2005-2007.

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