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 ...
Kalle R, Sõukand R, Pieroni A.
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Wild Food Plants and Trends in Their Use: From Knowledge and Perceptions to Drivers of Change in West Sumatra, Indonesia. [PDF]
Foods, 2020 Wild food plants (WFPs) are often highly nutritious but under-consumed at the same time. This study aimed to document the diversity of WFPs, and assess perceptions, attitudes, and drivers of change in their consumption among Minangkabau and Mandailing ...
Pawera L +5 more
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Medicinal and wild food plants of Marmara Island (Balikesir – Turkey)
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.
Kolosova V +4 more
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Conservation of Wild Food Plants and Their Potential for Combatting Food Insecurity in Kenya as Exemplified by the Drylands of Kitui County. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2020 Wild food plants are important resources for people living in dry areas of Kenya. A botanical inventory of vascular plants of Kitui county was compiled from specimens collected during field investigations in Kitui county, at the East African (EA ...
Mutie FM +4 more
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The nexus between ecology of foraging and food security: cross-cultural perceptions of wild food plants in Kashmir Himalaya. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol EthnomedWild food plants (WFPs) play an important role in the traditional dietary habits of various indigenous communities worldwide, particularly in mountainous regions.
Gillani SW +9 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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Ethnobotanical survey of wild food plants traditionally collected and consumed in the Middle Agri Valley (Basilicata region, southern Italy). [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2017 BackgroundThis research was carried out in a scarcely populated area of the Middle Agri Valley (Basilicata region, southern Italy). The aim of the study was to record local knowledge on the traditional uses of wild food plants, as well as to collect ...
Sansanelli S +3 more
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The Persistence of Flavor: Past and Present Use of Wild Food Plants in Sierra Norte de Madrid, Spain
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Despite the increasing scientific and public interest in wild food plants, their traditional knowledge is undergoing a deep cultural erosion process at a global scale. The paper assesses past and present use of wild food plants in Sierra Norte de Madrid (
Laura Aceituno-Mata +4 more
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Wild food plants of Remote Oceania
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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