Foraging Practices and Sustainable Management of Wild Food Resources in Europe: A Systematic Review

G Mina, V Scariot, G Peira, G Lombardi - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wild food gathering activities (ie, foraging practices) played an important role in securing
food in the past. Nowadays, these resources and the knowledge around their use are …

Some European Gentiana Species Are Used Traditionally to Cure Wounds: Bioactivity and Conservation Issues

A Pasdaran, Z Naychov, D Batovska, P Kerr, A Favre… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wound care will always be among the main tasks in all surgical specialties. Several
medicinal plants have proven efficacy to cure wounds. Ethnobotanical research and …

[HTML][HTML] An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Güce district, north-eastern Turkey

M Karaköse - Plant Diversity, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to identify medicinal plants traditionally used to treat diseases by local
people living in Güce district, north-eastern Turkey. The study was carried out between 2018 …

Homogenisation of biocultural diversity: Plant ethnomedicine and its diachronic change in Setomaa and Võromaa, Estonia, in the last century

R Sõukand, R Kalle, A Pieroni - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary To understand how healing practices change over time, it is important to
recognize the role and extent of external factors affecting the diversity of uses. Our …

Dining tables divided by a border: The effect of socio-political scenarios on local ecological knowledge of Romanians living in Ukrainian and Romanian Bukovina

N Stryamets, G Mattalia, A Pieroni, I Khomyn… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Local cuisine is an important reservoir of local ecological knowledge shaped by a variety of
socio-cultural, economic, and ecological factors. The aim was to document and compare the …

Quantitative ethnoveterinary study on plant resource utilization by indigenous communities in high-altitude regions

SM Haq, U Yaqoob, M Majeed, MS Amjad… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
For millennia, ethnic knowledge has been intricately tied to local biodiversity and woven into
the fabric of rural communities. Growing scientific evidence suggests that merging ethnic …

Knowledge in motion: temporal dynamics of wild food plant use in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border region

J Prakofjewa, M Sartori, P Šarka, R Kalle… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Understanding how Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) evolves over
time is crucial for fostering social and environmental responsibility. This study aims to …

On the trail of an ancient Middle Eastern ethnobotany: Traditional wild food plants gathered by Ormuri speakers in Kaniguram, NW Pakistan

MA Aziz, Z Ullah, M Al-Fatimi, M De Chiara, R Sõukand… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
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, ie, the …

“Wisdom of the elders” or “loss of experience” as a mechanism to explain the decline in traditional ecological knowledge: A case study on Awaji Island, Japan

K Okui, Y Sawada, T Yoshida - Human Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Previous studies have reported that older people are more knowledgeable about nature
than the younger generation. The relationship between people's age and level of knowledge …

Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge of the Central Lika Region (Continental Croatia)—First Record of Edible Use of Fungus Taphrina pruni

I Vitasović-Kosić, A Hodak, Ł Łuczaj, M Marić… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study analyzed the use of plants and fungi, some wild and some cultivated, in three
municipalities of Lika-Senj County (Perušić, Gospić and Lovinac). The range of the study …