Talk:Economic botany

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Of course I welcome advice for improving this article. Zack Barton (talk) 00:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Merge with ethnobotany?
I believe this article should be merged with ethnobotany. The name of the society and the journal notwithstanding, economic botany is a little used, somewhat archaic term that is essentially synonymous with ethnobotany. There is no commonly accepted definition that distinguishes the two terms, and ethnobotany is more widely used (even showing up in more articles in Economic Botany than the titular phrase). Additionally, this article as it currently stands is too focused on "commercial" aspects of "economic" botany. Economic botany does not deal solely with commercialized or even potentially commercial plants. "Economic" in this case is perhaps better understood by going back to the Greek roots (organization of the home), than by parallel with the discipline of economics. Again though, "economic botany" is pretty archaic, and with the "economic" being prone to misunderstanding, ethnobotany is the more widely used name for the same discipline.Plantdrew (talk) 20:49, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I feel it has more in common with agronomy.--Animalparty-- (talk) 06:56, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Economic botany is commercial exploitation of plants, while ethnobotany refers to traditional non-economic uses of plants by people. Not the same thing at all. Plantsurfer (talk) 08:12, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The research performed by members of the Society for Economic Botany (and published in Economic Botany), as well as research carried out through Kew's Centre for Economic Botany and NYBG's Institute of Economic Botany includes a lot of "ethnobotany". There may be a historical distinction, but the societies and institutions using the term "economic botany" in the present day aren't distinguishing between ethno and economic botany. If you take a restricted definition of both terms, there's a lot of research studying the interaction between plants and people that doesn't fall precisely under either term. What would you call a study of Native American management practices of a plant used for basket weaving? Or a study of use of edible weeds in an agricultural field? Plantdrew (talk) 16:57, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't have an opinion on merging, but I can say that it seems this article has been written in a non-encyclopedic way from the start. Is it worth keeping? If it should be kept, then it looks like sections may need purging, perhaps some rewritten. I pulled it up to link "economically important" to it in an article about a taxon and really don't want to now that I see it. —Eewilson (talk) 00:03, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

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