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The roles and values of wild foods in agricultural systems
Almost every ecosystem has been amended so that plants and animals can be used as food, fibre, fodder, medicines, traps and weapons. Historically, wild plants and animals were sole dietary components for hunter-gatherer and forager cultures. Today, they remain key to many agricultural communities. The mean use of wild foods by agricultural and forager communities in 22 countries of Asia and Afr...
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We report compositional data for several foods that comprise the annual diet among Hadza foragers near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania. Samples collected during daily gathering trips over three "eldwork seasons were prepared according to Hadza methods. All three types of honey show moisture and starch levels similar to United States' honeys but higher levels of protein, fat, and ash. Several sa...
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A small minority of Africa's wild plant foods are C4. These are primarily the seeds of some of the C4 grasses, the rootstocks and stem/leaf bases of some of the C4 sedges (especially papyrus), and the leaves of some of the C4 herbaceous dicots (forbs). These wild food plants are commonly found in disturbed ground and wetlands (particularly the grasses and sedges). Multiple lines of evidence ind...
متن کاملCorrection to: Children and Wild Foods in the Context of Deforestation in Rural Malawi
The article Children and Wild Foods in the Context of Deforestation in Rural Malawi, written by H. Maseko, Charlie M. Shackleton, J. Nagoli and D. Pullanikkatil, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 45, issue 6, page 795–807 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of ...
متن کاملChildren and Wild Foods in the Context of Deforestation in Rural Malawi
There is growing recognition of the contribution of wild foods to local diets, nutrition, and culture. Yet disaggregation of understanding of wild food use by gender and age is limited. We used a mixed methods approach to determine the types, frequencies, and perceptions of wild foods used and sold by children in four villages in southern Malawi that have different levels of deforestation. Hous...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Blue Jay
سال: 1979
ISSN: 2562-5667,0006-5099
DOI: 10.29173/bluejay4318