Enough to Feed Ourselves!—Food Plants in Bulgarian Rural Home Gardens [PDF]
Plants, 2021 The home garden is a unique human-nature interspace that accommodates a diverse spectrum of plant species and provides multiple services to households.
Teodora Ivanova +3 more
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Plant diversity and ethnobotanical importance of home gardens in Ghana’s middle belt: a cross-sectional survey of the Sunyani municipality [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023 Background Home gardens are a species-rich socioecological system with a diverse range of cultivated and naturally occurring plants with the potential to make contributions to address sustainable food, biodiversity and climate crisis. However, there is a
Bismark Ofosu-Bamfo +9 more
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Home gardens of Central Asia: Reservoirs of diversity of fruit and nut tree species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Central Asia is an important center of origin for many globally valued fruit and nut tree species. Forest degradation and deforestation are cause for concern for the conservation of these valuable species, now confined to small remnant populations.
Barbara Vinceti +12 more
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Functional diversity of home gardens and their agrobiodiversity conservation benefits in Benin, West Africa [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017 Background Understanding the functional diversity of home gardens and their socio-ecological determinants is essential for mainstreaming these agroforestry practices into agrobiodiversity conservation strategies.
Rodrigue Castro Gbedomon +5 more
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The best choices: the diversity and functions of the plants in the home gardens of the Tsang-la (Motuo Menba) communities in Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, Southwest China [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background Home garden is identified as a kind of small-scale land-use system which is used to manage and cultivate useful plants by local people, and home gardens can provide various plant products and services.
Yu Zhang +5 more
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Home gardens as a predictor of enhanced dietary diversity and food security in rural Myanmar [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Home gardens have been found to improve food security and dietary diversity in a wide range of settings. However, there is a need to place home gardens within the larger food and nutrition system landscapes that shape the construction of ...
Anu Rammohan +2 more
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Floristic composition and utilization of ethnomedicinal plant species in home gardens of the Eastern Himalaya [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019 Background Home gardens are popular micro land-use system and are socioeconomically linked with people for their livelihood. In the foothill region of Eastern Himalaya, very less documentations are available on species richness of the home gardens ...
Nazir A. Pala +6 more
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Management of Fruit Species in Urban Home Gardens of Argentina Atlantic Forest as an Influence for Landscape Domestication. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2017 Home gardens are considered germplasm repositories and places for experimentation, thus they are key sites for the domestication of plants. Domestication is considered a constant process that occurs along a continuum from wild to managed to domesticated ...
Furlan V, Pochettino ML, Hilgert NI.
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The changing face of farmers’ home gardens: a diachronic analysis from Sillian (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2018 Background Home gardens are an integral part of many traditional land use systems around the world. They are subject to various conversion processes and undergo a variety of changes.
Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser +1 more
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Assessment of Useful Alien Plant Species Cultivated and Managed in Rural Home Gardens of Limpopo Province, South Africa [PDF]
Scientifica, 2020 Several communities in developing countries derive substantial part of their livelihood needs from alien plants cultivated and managed in home gardens. The aim of this study was to assess useful alien plant species cultivated and managed in home gardens ...
Sebua Silas Semenya, Alfred Maroyi
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