Jacques Pierre Marie Daudin was a Chinese-born French agronomist and environmentalist, who lived and worked in the Caribbean and west Africa.
His early schooling took place in China and in Vietnam, where he was childhood friends with future Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk.
[3][4] Daudin graduated in 1949 with a degree in Agronomic Science from the University of Nancy in France.
[3][4] In the 1950s, Daudin moved with his wife to the West Indies, first in Guadeloupe and then in Martinique, where he worked to improve crop diversification and banana production.
[3] His wife worked as an audio/visual broadcaster for the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française.