Not just minor forest products: The economic rationale for the consumption of wild food plants by subsistence farmers

Delang, Claudio O.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.10.006

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“…Wild plant food use has been described in diverse communities (e.g., Batal and Hunter 2007;Delang 2006;Etkin 1994;Fleuret 1979b;Grivetti and Ogle 2000;Herzog, Farah, and Amadò 1994;Ladio and Lozada 2004;Maroyi 2011;Moreno-Black and Somnasang 2000;Pieroni et al 2005;Price 1997;Dhed'a Djailo 2010, 2011;Vainio-Mattila 2000) and their nutrient composition is increasingly reported (e.g., Lyimo, Temu, and Mugula 2003;Msuya, Mamiro, and Weinberger 2008;Nordeide et al 1996). Yet, few studies have expressly examined the contribution wild foods make to actual nutrient intake and dietary diversity (Ogle et al 2001).…”

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Wild Foods from Farm and Forest in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Powell

Maundu²,

Kuhnlein

et al. 2013

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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Wild Foods from Farm and Forest in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Powell

Maundu²,

Kuhnlein

et al. 2013

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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“…Another factor in the popular consumption of wild edibles is that it reduces the expenses of buying plants in the market [48].…”

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Gathering an edible wild plant: food or medicine? A case study on wild edibles and functional foods in Granada, Spain

2017

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A study on wild edible resources has been performed in the western part of Granada Province (Spain) using ethnobotanical methods. We document and analyze knowledge concerning wild edible plants and mushrooms and their folk medicinal uses in the study area. Several botanical features and use characteristics have been analyzed for the species included, with special attention to their medicinal uses, highlighting a large number of edible-medicinal species. Local importance of the medicinal uses for these resources has been confirmed. Up to 135 species are gathered from the wild in the study area, from which 46 can be considered folk functional foods. In addition, 45 crop plants with uncommon edible or medicinal uses are included, 29 of these being considered functional foods as well. Therefore, a total of 75 plant species are used as edible medicines which serve to treat 36 different conditions. The local concept of food and medicine regarding wild plant resources seems not to be well established. Studies on the pharmacological properties of these foods are needed in order to establish their real or potential benefits for the treated affections.

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“…Initial optimism was followed by skepticism and subsequently by pessimism, i.e., it became obvious that it was not possible to establish a sustainable economic development on a economic system mainly based on foraging [45][46][47]. Indeed, the optimist belief has been contradicted given any of the three following reasons [37,38]. From an economic point of view, a sharp increase in the supply of NTFPs in local markets with limited demand would result in a drop in prices, which would invalidate the initial calculations about the potential profits that NTFPs could generate to forest dwellers.…”

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“…Indeed, in many resin, communities NTFPs that are directly consumed play a more important role in the livelihood of the population than the cash earned with the sale of NTFPs or other commodities. For instance, Delang [37,38] in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in western Thailand 9 . The first method calculates the time needed to gather the wild food plants.…”

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Foraging Wild Resources: Evolving Goals of an Ubiquitous Human Behavior

Svizzero¹

2016

Anthropol

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Although human foraging behavior, i.e., the method used to get food procurement from the wild, is the economic criterion usually used in the academic literature in order to define hunter-gatherer societies, it is restricted neither to these societies nor to this goal. It consists of the extraction of natural resources by means of various techniques, such as hunting, fishing and gathering. It is applied to a broad range of wild resources -aquatic and terrestrial, plants, animals and minerals -even though in some cases it could be limited only to some of these resources such as the non-timber forest products (NTFPs). The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that while foraging is an ubiquitous human behavior, its goals are evolving with the passage of time. More precisely these goals that exist today have been present in some form in the past, only their importance and emphasis has changed over time and with the historical, sociological and ecological contexts. While subsistence seems naturally the most obvious motivation of human foraging behavior, the latter also occurs in various contexts such as in mixed economies. Moreover, other goals -different from the biological one -also exist. Indeed, foraging can be a mean to obtain a -primary or secondary -source of income provided through trade of harvested wild products. Socio-cultural goals may also motivate human foraging behavior. They are related to culture and heritage, recreational values, or to environmental conservation and sustainability, the latter being exemplified for instance by the recent movement of urban foragers.

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Not just minor forest products: The economic rationale for the consumption of wild food plants by subsistence farmers

Cited by 115 publications

References 33 publications

Wild Foods from Farm and Forest in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Wild Foods from Farm and Forest in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Gathering an edible wild plant: food or medicine? A case study on wild edibles and functional foods in Granada, Spain

Foraging Wild Resources: Evolving Goals of an Ubiquitous Human Behavior

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