Born to Eat Wild: An Integrated Conservation Approach to Secure Wild Food Plants for Food Security and Nutrition. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2020 Overlooked in national reports and in conservation programs, wild food plants (WFPs) have been a vital component of food and nutrition security for centuries.
Borelli T +11 more
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Ethnobotanical review of traditional use of wild food plants in Japan [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Japan, which has a diverse climate, is home to 8118 species of wild vascular plants, with more than 1000 of these species considered edible.
Yoshimi Osawa
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The Renaissance of Wild Food Plants: Insights from Tuscany (Italy). [PDF]
Foods, 2022 This paper provides an overview of wild food plants traditionally used in the gastronomy of Tuscany, an Italian region with high biological diversity and whose cultural heritage is well known.
Baldi A +6 more
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Wild food plants of Brazil: a theoretical approach to non-random selection. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2023 Ethnobiological investigations have focused on identifying factors that interfere with the criteria adopted for selection of plants, especially medicinal plants, by different populations, confirming the theory that plant selection is not random. However,
Gomes LCA, de Medeiros PM, Prata APDN.
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Nutritional and mineral analysis of the ultimate wild food plants of Lotkuh, Chitral, the Eastern Hindukush Pakistan. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Wild food plants (WFPs) are designated as functional foods owing to their nutritional potential and as a source of bioactive compounds vital for human health.
Ullah H, Badshah L.
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Traditional Wild Food Plants Gathered by Ethnic Groups Living in Semi-Arid Region of Punjab, Pakistan. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2023 Simple Summary In traditional food systems, especially for rural populations around the world, wild food plants have remained crucial. These resources must be quickly documented in order to lay the groundwork for sustainable livelihoods and food security.
Waheed M +8 more
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Gathered Wild Food Plants among Diverse Religious Groups in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. [PDF]
Foods, 2021 Recent ethnobotanical studies have raised the hypothesis that religious affiliation can, in certain circumstances, influence the evolution of the use of wild food plants, given that it shapes kinship relations and vertical transmission of traditional ...
Majeed M +8 more
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Local knowledge as a tool for prospecting wild food plants: experiences in northeastern Brazil. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 This study aims to provide a simple framework to identify wild food plants with potential for popularization based on local knowledge and perception. To this end, we also characterized the distribution of this knowledge in the socio-ecological system. We
de Medeiros PM +5 more
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Wild food plants and fungi sold in the markets of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2021 Background Open air markets hold an important position for ethnobiologists. In Southeast Asia, they are seriously understudied, in spite of their incredible biocultural diversity.
Łuczaj Ł +8 more
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On the Trail of an Ancient Middle Eastern Ethnobotany: Traditional Wild Food Plants Gathered by Ormuri Speakers in Kaniguram, NW Pakistan. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2021 Simple Summary Wild food plants (WFPs) have played an important role in the human diet throughout history. The current study reports WFP uses among two linguistic groups, i.e., the Ormur people and Pashtuns, living in the Valley of Kaniguram, South ...
Aziz MA +5 more
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