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

open access: yesPLANTS, 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   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elaboración y consumo de tortillas como patrimonio cultural de San Pedro del Rosal, México

open access: yesRegión y Sociedad, 2017
Planting and consumption of maize are identity and determining activities in the evolution of population’s food heritage, since they contribute to food security and preservation of the biocultural heritage.
María Cristina Chávez Mejía   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patrimonio Biocultural, Turismo Micológico Y Etnoconocimiento [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Las comunidades indígenas forestales del centro de México son poseedoras de diversos etnoconocimientos, entre los que destacan los referentes a los HCS y sus saberes asociados. La presente investigación, de tipo cualitativo, se basó en el análisis de los
BURROLA AGUILAR, CRISTINA   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why the ongoing occupation of Ukraine matters to ethnobiology

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine investigate the continuously changing complex and inextricable relations among culture, nature, and health. Since the emergence of modern ethnobiology a few decades ago, its essence and mission have been the study of ...
Nataliya Stryamets   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reef 2050 Long Term Sustainability Plan Indigenous Implementation Plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Department commissioned the Gidarjil Development Corporation in 2016 to consult with Traditional Owners and develop a Reef 2050 Indigenous Implementation Plan.

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Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
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   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpersonal and Ideological Kindness: A Biocultural Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In accordance with Richard Dawkins’ materialist “selfish gene” theory of human behavior, altruism is a subject matter that is treated conservatively by biologists, whose understanding of the human version of altruism tends toward mutualistic and ...
Averitt-Hubbard, Sally
core   +2 more sources

Inter‐Annual Variation in Alpha and Beta Diversity of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Agricultural Ditches

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ditches are essential elements of the agricultural landscape because of their role as habitat or refuge for aquatic species, especially in homogenized and intensively cultivated areas. However, data on the biodiversity associated with agricultural ditches, and its variation over time, are underrepresented in ecological research.
Michela Rappocciolo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Heritage about Medicinal Plants in a European Transboundary Area (La Raya: Extremadura, Spain—Alentejo, Portugal): Transdisciplinary Research for Curriculum Design in Health Sciences

open access: yesHeritage
Traditional knowledge about medicinal plants, and the biocultural heritage derived from them, can be a useful tool for curricular design in health sciences.
José Ramón Vallejo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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