The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan

The issue of foraging for wild food plants among migrants and relocated communities is an important one in environmental studies, especially in order to understand how human societies rearrange their practices linked to nature and how they adapt to new socioecological systems. This paper addresses t...

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Hauptverfasser: Manduzai, Ajmal K., Abbasi, Arshad M., Khan, Shujaul M., Abdullah, Abdullah, Prakofjewa, Julia, Amini, Mohammad H., Amjad, Muhammad S., Cianfaglione, Kevin, Fontefrancesco, Michele F., Soukand, Renata, Pieroni, Andrea
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description The issue of foraging for wild food plants among migrants and relocated communities is an important one in environmental studies, especially in order to understand how human societies rearrange their practices linked to nature and how they adapt to new socioecological systems. This paper addresses the complexity of Traditional/Local Environmental Knowledge (LEK) changes associated to wild vegetables and herbs across four different groups of Afghan refugees living in Mansehra District, NW Pakistan, since 1985. Via interviews with eighty study participants, forty-eight wild vegetables and herbs were recorded, representing both the past and present wild plant gastronomic heritage. The majority of the quoted wild plant ingredients were only remembered and no longer actively used, thus suggesting an important erosion of LEK. Moreover, the number of wild vegetables and herbs currently used by Afghan Pashtuns engaged in farming activities is much higher than those reported by the other groups. The findings indicate that practiced LEK, i.e., knowledge that is continuously kept alive via constant contact with the natural environment, is essential for the resilience of the biocultural heritage, which is, however, also influenced by the rearrangement of social life adopted by refugees after relocation.
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Diaspora
Environmental changes
Environmental studies
Ethnobotany
Flowers & plants
Food
Food plants
Foraging behavior
Herbs
Lek
Refugee camps
Refugees
Relocation
Sustainability
Vegetables
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