Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09589-4
Sandrine Gallois, Tinde van Andel, Appolinaire Ambassa, Stijn van Bemmel
Abstract In the context of global change, understanding the knowledge and values given to plants is crucial for choosing relevant approaches towards a more sustainable future. Children are central holders of ethnobotanical knowledge, yet they are still under-considered in ethnobotany. Our study explored the medicinal knowledge of children of the Baka, forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon. We assessed the diversity of medicinal plants they know, the different ailments treated, and whether they could name complete herbal recipes. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combined ex situ interviews (freelisting and knowledge surveys) with in situ methods (walk-in-the-woods trips with voucher collection) with 106 children from 5 to 16 years old. They listed 128 local names of medicinal plants, which we linked to 126 different plant species. While the ex situ and in situ methods had some overlap in the diversity of medicinal plants reported, they also revealed substantial knowledge unique to each method. Our insights provide further evidence of children’s considerable ethnobotanical knowledge and the extent to which different field methods can retrieve such knowledge. We discuss the methodological tools to be developed with and for children to put childhood at the center stage of ethnobotanical approaches for the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09588-5
Flaviane Malaquias Costa, Natalia Carolina de Almeida Silva, Rafael Vidal, Charles Roland Clement, Elizabeth Ann Veasey
{"title":"A New Methodological Approach to Detect Microcenters and Regions of Maize Genetic Diversity in Different Areas of Lowland South America","authors":"Flaviane Malaquias Costa, Natalia Carolina de Almeida Silva, Rafael Vidal, Charles Roland Clement, Elizabeth Ann Veasey","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09588-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09588-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09584-9
Bradley B. Walters
Abstract Interdisciplinary research on people, plants, and environmental change (IRPPE) typically requires collaboration among experts who each bring distinct knowledge and skills to bear on the questions at hand. The benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research in principle are thus confounded by the dynamics of multidisciplinary collaboration in practice. However, broadly trained researchers can do IRPPE with little or no need of collaborators. For them, collaborative challenges may be negligible, but others arise. This paper reflects on experiences doing (mostly) solo research on peoples’ use of trees and their impacts on forests in the Caribbean and Philippines. Multidisciplinary collaborations are often plagued with problems of communication, theoretical disagreement, and methodological incompatibility because the habits and conceits of a rigorous disciplinary education are difficult to undo. These are problems that novel concepts, theory, and analytical frameworks promise but often fail to resolve. By contrast, going solo fosters an epistemic humility and pragmatic sensibility that encourages focused, efficient application of methods, and integration of research findings. Epistemic breadth encourages solo IRPPE researchers to apply theory sparingly and deploy clear concepts and precise analyses of the kind readily grasped by natural and social scientists and policy makers, alike.
{"title":"Doing Interdisciplinary Environmental Change Research Solo","authors":"Bradley B. Walters","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09584-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09584-9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Interdisciplinary research on people, plants, and environmental change (IRPPE) typically requires collaboration among experts who each bring distinct knowledge and skills to bear on the questions at hand. The benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research in principle are thus confounded by the dynamics of multidisciplinary collaboration in practice. However, broadly trained researchers can do IRPPE with little or no need of collaborators. For them, collaborative challenges may be negligible, but others arise. This paper reflects on experiences doing (mostly) solo research on peoples’ use of trees and their impacts on forests in the Caribbean and Philippines. Multidisciplinary collaborations are often plagued with problems of communication, theoretical disagreement, and methodological incompatibility because the habits and conceits of a rigorous disciplinary education are difficult to undo. These are problems that novel concepts, theory, and analytical frameworks promise but often fail to resolve. By contrast, going solo fosters an epistemic humility and pragmatic sensibility that encourages focused, efficient application of methods, and integration of research findings. Epistemic breadth encourages solo IRPPE researchers to apply theory sparingly and deploy clear concepts and precise analyses of the kind readily grasped by natural and social scientists and policy makers, alike.","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136136891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09585-8
Monika Kujawska, Fernando Zamudio, Joaquina Albán Castillo, Joanna Sosnowska
Abstract The article discusses the relationships between Ashaninka people from Peruvian Amazonia and the ibinishi ethnotaxon corresponding to several species from the Acanthaceae family cultivated in Ashaninka home gardens. The information on cultivated Acanthaceae comes from 59 gardens in 12 native communities along the Tambo River valley in Peruvian Upper Amazonia. The data were interpreted with a more-than-utility theoretical-methodological approach. Ibinishi , also known as pinitsi , are the second major group of cultivated medicinal plants after ibenki ( Cyperus spp.) by the Ashaninka. An over-differentiation phenomenon is observed, in which three species of Justicia , one of Lepidagathis , and one of Ruellia correspond to 66 different ethnospecies of ibinishi . Their names are secondary lexemes, and in their meaning, they refer mostly to visions, spirits, and human and animal sorcerers. A wide scope of uses is connected to Ashaninka etiologies but only partly supported by the secondary metabolites found in those species. The ethnomedical phenomenon of ibinishi has been found among the Ashaninka but not among other Arawak-speaking groups in Amazonia. Compared to ethnographic sources, the importance of ibinishi seems to have grown among the Ashaninka, which may be ascribed to the armed conflicts and social unrest this group has gone through in recent times.
{"title":"The Relation Between Ashaninka Amazonian Society and Cultivated Acanthaceae Plants","authors":"Monika Kujawska, Fernando Zamudio, Joaquina Albán Castillo, Joanna Sosnowska","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09585-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09585-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article discusses the relationships between Ashaninka people from Peruvian Amazonia and the ibinishi ethnotaxon corresponding to several species from the Acanthaceae family cultivated in Ashaninka home gardens. The information on cultivated Acanthaceae comes from 59 gardens in 12 native communities along the Tambo River valley in Peruvian Upper Amazonia. The data were interpreted with a more-than-utility theoretical-methodological approach. Ibinishi , also known as pinitsi , are the second major group of cultivated medicinal plants after ibenki ( Cyperus spp.) by the Ashaninka. An over-differentiation phenomenon is observed, in which three species of Justicia , one of Lepidagathis , and one of Ruellia correspond to 66 different ethnospecies of ibinishi . Their names are secondary lexemes, and in their meaning, they refer mostly to visions, spirits, and human and animal sorcerers. A wide scope of uses is connected to Ashaninka etiologies but only partly supported by the secondary metabolites found in those species. The ethnomedical phenomenon of ibinishi has been found among the Ashaninka but not among other Arawak-speaking groups in Amazonia. Compared to ethnographic sources, the importance of ibinishi seems to have grown among the Ashaninka, which may be ascribed to the armed conflicts and social unrest this group has gone through in recent times.","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09580-z
María del Consuelo Aragón-Martínez, Alejandra Serrato-Díaz, M. G. Rocha-Munive, Fabiola Ramírez-Corona, C. F. Vargas-Mendoza, Beatriz Rendón-Aguilar
{"title":"Traditional Management of Maize in the Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, Maintains Moderate Levels of Genetic Diversity and Low Population Differentiation Among Landraces","authors":"María del Consuelo Aragón-Martínez, Alejandra Serrato-Díaz, M. G. Rocha-Munive, Fabiola Ramírez-Corona, C. F. Vargas-Mendoza, Beatriz Rendón-Aguilar","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09580-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09580-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42173119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09581-y
Tonankpon Aymar Guy Deguenonvo, T. Houehanou, R. Idohou, Narcisse Yehouenou, Gérard N. Gouwakinnou, A. K. Natta
{"title":"Uses, Cultural Importance, and Fire Threat to Pseudocedrela kotschyi (Meliaceae): Evidence for the Availability Hypothesis in Benin (West Africa)","authors":"Tonankpon Aymar Guy Deguenonvo, T. Houehanou, R. Idohou, Narcisse Yehouenou, Gérard N. Gouwakinnou, A. K. Natta","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09581-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09581-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46044127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09582-x
Ngairangbam Yaipharembi, Elizabeth Huidrom, Khumukcham Nongalleima, Huidrom Birkumar Singh
{"title":"An Ethnobotanical Study on the Dietary Use of Wild Trees as Traditional Vegetables by Three Ethnic Communities in Manipur, North East India","authors":"Ngairangbam Yaipharembi, Elizabeth Huidrom, Khumukcham Nongalleima, Huidrom Birkumar Singh","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09582-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09582-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46034647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09577-8
André dos Santos Souza, K. F. Rito, Leonardo da Silva Chaves, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, M. Tabarelli, U. Albuquerque
{"title":"Patterns of Biological and Utilitarian Diversity of Plants Through a Dry Forest Precipitation Gradient","authors":"André dos Santos Souza, K. F. Rito, Leonardo da Silva Chaves, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, M. Tabarelli, U. Albuquerque","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09577-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09577-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45044728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-18DOI: 10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6
Naji Sulaiman, V. Verner, Z. Polesny
{"title":"Socioeconomic Dimensions of Wild Food Plant Use During the Conflict in Syria","authors":"Naji Sulaiman, V. Verner, Z. Polesny","doi":"10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11412,"journal":{"name":"Economic Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42512043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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