@article {158,
	title = {Wild and semi-domesticated food plant consumption in seven circum-Mediterranean areas},
	journal = {International Journal of Food Sciences and NutritionInternational Journal of Food Sciences and NutritionInternational Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition},
	volume = {59},
	number = {5},
	year = {2008},
	note = {334UFTimes Cited:51Cited References Count:97},
	pages = {383-414},
	abstract = {The use of local Mediterranean food plants is at the brink of disappearance. Even though there is relatively abundant information on inventories of wild edible taxa, there is also a crucial need to understand how these plants are consumed and when and how these consumption phenomena change over time and place around the Mediterranean. Additionally, it is important to study such knowledge systems and find innovative ways of infusing them to the future Mediterranean generations. During the years 2003-2006 a circum-Mediterranean ethnobotanical field survey for wild food plants was conducted in selected study sites in seven Mediterranean areas (European Union-funded RUBIA Project). Structured and semi-structured questionnaires have been administered to indigenous people and 294 wild food plant taxa were documented in the survey. A comparative analysis of the data was undertaken showing that the quantity and quality of traditional knowledge varies among the several study areas and is closely related to the traditions, environment and cultural heritage of each country. More similarities of wild edible popular use were revealed between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Mediterranean.},
	keywords = {chameleon, edible plants, ethnobiology, Ethnobotany, food medicine, iberian peninsula, kingdom, mapuche community, medicinal-plants, mediterranean diet, siaya district, southern-africa, swaziland, vegetables, wild food plants},
	isbn = {0963-7486},
	author = {Hadjichambis, A. C. and Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D. and Della, A. and Giusti, M. E. and De Pasquale, C. and Lenzarini, C. and Censorii, E. and Gonzales-Tejero, M. R. and Sanchez-Rojas, C. P. and Ramiro-Gutierrez, J. M. and Skoula, M. and Johnson, C. and Sarpaki, A. and Hmamouchi, M. and Jorhi, S. and El-Demerdash, M. and El-Zayat, M. and Pieroni, A.}
}
@article {76,
	title = {Human-Induced Movement of Wild Food Plant Biodiversity across Farming Systems Is Essential to Ensure Their Availability},
	journal = {Journal of EthnobiologyJournal of Ethnobiology},
	volume = {34},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	note = {Ac2ufTimes Cited:1Cited References Count:65},
	month = {Spr-Sum},
	pages = {68-83},
	abstract = {Farmers from around the world manage, gather and eat wild food plants from anthropogenic ecosystems. Research conducted in Northeast Thailand among rice farmers documents the pattern of this management related to the distribution of edible species. Interviews with 40 farm households yielded a total of 165 transplanting cases involving 32 species. Flows of transplanting material were unidirectional and bidirectional involving different anthropogenic ecosystems. Evidence of farmers{\textquoteright} extensive transplanting of species in their gardens and fields indicates that they are ensuring availability and stability of the wild food plant supply for domestic consumption, which is crucial for local food security. We recorded 2,196 household gathering events for domestic consumption for one week a month over 12 months, showing that most species that are transplanted are actually gathered by local farmers. We conclude that conventional dichotomies of wild versus domesticated underlying conventional thinking and research on human food systems overlook the reality of how {\textquoteright}wilderness{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteright}farming{\textquoteright} come together in creative ways, forming foodways and securing the food supply as illustrated in this case of farmer management of wild food species across different ecosystems of the farming landscape.},
	keywords = {chameleon, domestication, ecosystems, farming landscape, food security, gathering, kingdom, legacy, management, northeast thailand, resources, southern-africa, swaziland, transplanting, wild food plants},
	isbn = {0278-0771},
	author = {Cruz-Garcia, G. S. and Price, L. L.}
}
