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Folk knowledge of wild food plants among the tribal communities of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, North-West Pakistan

Indigenous communities of the Thakht-e-Sulamian hills reside in the North-West tribal belt of Pakistan, where disadvantaged socio-economic frames, lack of agricultural land and food insecurity represent crucial problems to their survival. Several studies in diverse areas worldwide have pointed out the importance of wild food plants (WFPs) for assuring food sovereignty and food security, and therefore the current study was aimed at documenting traditional knowledge of WFPs and analyzing how this varies among generations.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectTraditional Knowledge
PublisherJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Publication year2016
RegionsAsia
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13002-016-0090-2.pdf
KeywordsTraditional Knowledge; Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species; Food security; Agricultural biodiversity