Invisible contaminants and food security in former coal mining areas of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil
Mining activities have environmental impacts due to sediment movement and contamination of areas and may also pose risks to people ’s food security. In Brazil, the majority of coal mining activities are in the ... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - August 14, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Graziela Dias Blanco, Rafael Barbizan S ühs, Escarlet Brizola, Patrícia Figueiredo Corrêa, Mari Lucia Campos and Natalia Hanazaki Tags: Research Source Type: research

Local preferences for three indigenous oil-seed plants and attitudes towards their conservation in the K énédougou province of Burkina Faso, West-Africa
Carapa procera, Lophira lanceolata, and Pentadesma butyracea are three underutilized but increasingly threatened indigenous oil-seed tree species (IOS) in tropical Africa. Because local knowledge is vital for sus... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - July 23, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Fanta Reine Sheirita Ti étiambou, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Jésukpégo Roméo Tohoun and Amadé Ouédraogo Tags: Research Source Type: research

Home gardens ’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México
Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. We conducted a case study in Tabasco, M éxico, on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionalit... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - July 20, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Teresita Avilez-L ópez, Hans van der Wal, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya and Ulises Rodríguez-Robles Tags: Research Source Type: research

Knowledge transmission patterns at the border: ethnobotany of Hutsuls living in the Carpathian Mountains of Bukovina (SW Ukraine and NE Romania)
Cross-border research is a novel and important tool for detecting variability of ecological knowledge. This is especially evident in regions recently divided and annexed to different political regimes. Therefo... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - July 10, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Giulia Mattalia, Nataliya Stryamets, Andrea Pieroni and Renata S õukand Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants used by Mulam people in Guangxi, China
The Mulam are an ethnic group native to Guangxi, and nearly 80% of the Mulam population lives in Luocheng Mulam Autonomous County, northern Guangxi, southern China. They have accumulated rich medicinal folk kn... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - July 2, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Renchuan Hu, Chunrui Lin, Weibin Xu, Yan Liu and Chunlin Long Tags: Research Source Type: research