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Conservation of wild food plants from wood uses: evidence supporting the protection hypothesis in Northeastern Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background The interplay between different uses of woody plants remains underexplored, obscuring our understanding of how a plant’s value for one purpose might shield it from other, more harmful uses.
Roberta de Almeida Caetano, Emilly Luize Guedes da Silva, Luis Fernando Colin-Nolasco, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva, Adriana Rosa Carvalho, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros   +5 more
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China Muerta National Reserve: Reflections about the biocultural conservation of nature, forest fires and the colonial wound in indigenous territories [PDF]

, 2018
Se presentan los principales resultados de una investigación de carácter exploratorio realizada en torno al incendio de la Reserva Nacional China Muerta (Región de La Araucanía), ocurrido en el año 2015.
Figueroa Burdiles, Noelia, Vergara-Pinto, Francisca   +1 more
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Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

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Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger, Herbaud P. F. Zohoungbogobo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of rapid urbanization on forest landscape connectivity in Zhuhai city, China [PDF]

, 2018
Urban forests can provide the necessary ecosystem services for their residents and play an important part in improving the urban environment. Forest landscape connectivity is a vital indicator reflecting the quality of the ecological environment and ...
Cui, Nan, Feng, Chen-Chieh, Guo, Luo, Li, Jianfei, Wang, Dan   +4 more
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Perspectives and behaviors surrounding planting practices in North America inform genetic conservation realities for American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)

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American ginseng is a shade‐obligate, North American medicinal plant that is widely traded and used internationally. To meet global demand, ginseng is cultivated in forest farms in the Appalachian region of the USA and field‐based artificial shade farms in two regions: Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA. We conducted social research leveraging in‐depth
Rachel E. Palkovitz, Mary K. Shenk, Eric P. Burkhart   +2 more
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From wild to tamed: Reimagining novel crops through omics and local plant diversity

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The global food system faces growing pressure from climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising nutritional demands. Agriculture has increased yields but reduced crop diversity, flavor, and nutritional quality, leaving societies vulnerable and dependent on a narrow set of staple species.
Alexandra Sanfeliu Meliá, Pablo D. Cárdenas   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropological Encounters with Economic Development and Biodiversity Conservation [PDF]

Current debates on the ecological crisis and on shared responsibilities for the maintenance of the earth's commons raise fundamental anthropological questions, but anthropologists have yet to engage fully with them, or with the paradigm of sustainable ...
Laura Rival (ODID)
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The Consumption of Wild Edible Plants [PDF]

, 2016
Wild edible plants are of great importance in both former and current human societies. Their use embodies evolutionary trends, continuing interactions between men and nature, relevant traditional knowledge, and cultural heritage. A conceptual approach to
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Tropical forests, people and food: an overview [PDF]

, 1993
The contrasting histories of different continents and their tropical forests provide the basic context in which the diversity of feeding strategies observed today was developed.
Hladik, Annette, Hladik, Claude Marcel, Linares, Olga F., Pagezy, Hélène, Semple, Alison   +4 more
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Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

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Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
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