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Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Land, 2019
In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural heritage in biodiversity protection and agricultural innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. We begin by defining the concept of biocultural heritage into four interlinked elements that are revealed through
Anneli Ekblom, Lindsey Gillson, Anna Shoemaker   +2 more
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Northwest Native Plants: A Digital Space for Paleoethnobotanical Knowledges and Biocultural Heritage

Heritage, 2022
Biocultural heritage preservation relies on ethnobotanical knowledge and the paleoethnobotanical data used in (re)constructing histories of human–biota interactions.
Shannon Tushingham, Mario Zimmermann, Jade D'Alpoim Guedes   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

A Biodiversity Hotspot Losing Its Biocultural Heritage: The Challenge to Biocultural Conservation of Brazilwood (Paubrasilia echinata)

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
The biocultural heritage of a region is developed and adapted after centuries of interrelationships between humans and nature. The endangered brazilwood [Paubrasilia echinata (Lam.), E. Gagnon, H.C. Lima, and G.P.
Juan Gomes Bastos, Lorelai Kury, Natalia Hanazaki, Rebeca Capozzi, Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel   +4 more
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Not “just necessity”? Two-x-eco-cultural dilemmas and the ethnobiological importance of the informal grannies’ markets in Moldova [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Informal food markets, particularly those managed by (elderly) women in post-communist Eastern Europe, represent a biocultural phenomenon of profound significance since globalisation and increasingly strict legal frameworks often threaten these ...
Andrea Pieroni, Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Miroslava Bavorova, Renata Sõukand   +5 more
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L’avenir de la conservation des plantes cultivées à la ferme : intérêt des approches bioculturelles de la conservation

Droit et Cultures, 2023
The article focuses on the modernist framework of crop diversity conservation as it was set up in the early 20th century. It shows and analyses its effects, particularly on the category of on-farm conservation that unfolded in the late 1980s.
Benjamin Coudurier, Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pastoral Stone Enclosures as Biological Cultural Heritage: Galician and Cornish Examples of Community Conservation

Land, 2020
The role and importance of a built structure are closely related to the surrounding area, with interest in a given area having a concomitant effect on the relevance given to the constructions it may hold. Heritage interest in landscape areas has grown in
Richard Grove, Joám Evans Pim, Miguel Serrano, Diego Cidrás, Heather Viles, Patricia Sanmartín   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation of Biocultural Diversity in the Huasteca Potosina Region, Mexico

Diversity, 2022
The Huasteca Potosina region has a relevant landscape heritage of biocultural diversity, due to high biological diversity and the presence of the Teenek (Huastec Mayan), Nahua, and Xi’iuy (Pame) ethnic groups.
Mario del Roble Pensado-Leglise, Salvador Luna-Vargas, Hilda Angélica Bustamante-Ramírez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage

Geographies, 2022
The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity is exemplified by the new conservation paradigm of biocultural heritage. We seek to clarify obsolescent notions of nature, whereby cultural construction and identity markers of mountain communities
Fausto O. Sarmiento, Nobuko Inaba, Yoshihiko Iida, Masahito Yoshida   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Creole Hens and Ranga-Ranga: Campesino Foodways and Biocultural Resource-Based Development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia

Agriculture, 2016
Biocultural heritage-based products, including regional specialty foods, are increasingly part of sustainable rural development strategies. While export-oriented biocultural products are often the most visible, we examine the role of campesino ...
Katherine L. Turner, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Ian Hudson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptions and Revitalization of Local Ecological Knowledge in Four Schools in Yasin Valley, North Pakistan

Mountain Research and Development, 2022
Mountains are often recognized as sites of biocultural diversity, and local ecological knowledge (LEK) is an integral part of community life. Rapid cultural standardization and urbanization have threatened biocultural diversity, posing threats to LEK in ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Gabriele Volpato, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Andrea Pieroni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source