Born to Eat Wild: An Integrated Conservation Approach to Secure Wild Food Plants for Food Security and Nutrition [PDF]
Plants, 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. Recently, several countries have reported on the widespread and regular consumption of WFPs, particularly by rural and indigenous communities but also in urban contexts.
Efisio Mattana +2 more
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Wild food plants of Remote Oceania [PDF]
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2012 Agricultural societies partly depend upon wild foods. Relationships between an agricultural society and its wild foods can be explored by examining how the society responds through colonization of new lands that have not been previously inhabited.
Will C. McClatchey
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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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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 ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz +2 more
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Devil Is in the Details: Use of Wild Food Plants in Historical Võromaa and Setomaa, Present-Day Estonia [PDF]
Foods, 2020 Biodiversity needs to be preserved to ensure food security. Border zones create high but vulnerable biocultural diversity. Through reviewing scattered historical data and documenting the current use of wild food plants among people currently living in ...
Renata Sõukand +2 more
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Medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island (Balikesir – Turkey) [PDF]
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2016 Medicinal and wild food plants have always played an important role in people’s lives especially in rural areas. Similar situation can be said for islands due to the reason of them being isolated from mainland.
Gizem Bulut
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Foraging in Boreal Forest: Wild Food Plants of the Republic of Karelia, NW Russia [PDF]
Foods, 2020 While the current consumption of wild food plants in the taiga of the American continent is a relatively well-researched phenomenon, the European taiga area is heavily underrepresented in the scientific literature.
Aleksandra Rodionova +2 more
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New Insights on Primary and Secondary Metabolite Contents of Seven Italian Wild Food Plants with Medicinal Applications: A Comparative Study [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Wild food plants are widely consumed all over the world and many have both nutritional and therapeutic value due to the presence of biologically active compounds.
Stefania Monari +3 more
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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. Forty-nine bibliographic sources, including five unpublished studies, were reviewed.
Baldi A +6 more
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Ethnobotanical investigation of 'wild' food plants used by rice farmers in Kalasin, Northeast Thailand [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011 Background Wild food plants are a critical component in the subsistence system of rice farmers in Northeast Thailand. One of the important characteristics of wild plant foods among farming households is that the main collection locations are increasingly
Cruz-Garcia Gisella S, Price Lisa L
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