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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practicing “Netukulimk”: Indigenous governance of culturally significant species in Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland, Canada)

FACETS
Indigenous-led conservation is as an effective and just alternative to state-led approaches, such as parks and protected areas, which can displace and dispossess Indigenous Peoples from their traditional lands and territories.
J. Lukawiecki, G. Jeddore, R. Roth, F. Moola   +3 more
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Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina, Ani Bajrami, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Konstantinos Ntinas, Marjol Meço, Bledar Pulaj, Nektarios Aligiannis, Avni Hajdari, Andrea Pieroni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program

, 2008
This article discusses the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve's Omora Ethnobotanical Park educational program which was launched to contribute to a biocultural ...
Arango, Ximena, Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-, Heidinger, Kurt, Moses, Kelli, Massardo, Francisca, Anderson, Christopher B.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The milpa's Maya Ixil caretakers, multispecies biocultural diversity conservation, and designs for more-than-human abundance

Journal of Political Ecology
This article draws upon multispecies ethnographic fieldwork with the Maya Ixil in Iximulew (Guatemala) to identify a model of biodiversity conservation that decolonizes food systems in situ through biocultural practices of care work with more-than-human ...
Gina D'Alesandro
doaj   +2 more sources

Integrating ethnobiological knowledge into biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017
Biocultural knowledge provides valuable insight into ecological processes, and can guide conservation practitioners in local contexts. In many regions, however, such knowledge is underutilized due to its often-fragmented record in disparate sources.
Alexander R. O’Neill, Hemant K. Badola, Pitamber P. Dhyani, Santosh K. Rana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An ethic of co-inhabitation for the biocultural conservation of rivers

Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales, 2022
During the 20th century, numerous rivers were pumped, channeled, stratified, dammed, and diverted. Diverse water courses and bodies (rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and aquifers) were transformed for agricultural irrigation and energy purposes, supplying urban areas or simply favoring economic interests.
openaire   +2 more sources

Harnessing the nutritional potential of Cape wild edible plants: Insights, gaps and priorities

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild edible plants hold significant potential to strengthen food systems by enhancing nutrition, dietary diversity, climate resilience, sustainability and deeper connection of people to their food. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify knowledge gaps and assess the nutritional contributions of selected wild edible ...
Nicola Kühn, Loubie Rusch, Michelle Delport, Frances Storey, Emma van der Meulen, Laura Pereira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

IPBES VA Chapter 5. Earth Stewardship and Biocultural Conservation projects

, 2020
IPBES VA Chapter 5. Earth Stewardship and Biocultural Conservation projects Code: VA_5.3_Ch5 Versioning: 01 (17 December 2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4379172 Description: The VA mandate for Chapter 5 makes emphasis in highlighting the knowledge,
Alejandra Tauro, Ricardo Rozzi
core   +1 more source

FUTURE ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES AND THEIR BIOCULTURAL CONSERVATION INTERFACES [PDF]

Ethics & the Environment, 2007
This article discusses future environmental philosophies and their biocultural conservation interfaces.
openaire   +1 more source