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Cultural significance of medicinal plants in healing human ailments among Guji semi-pastoralist people, Suro Barguda District, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Traditional medicine has remained the most affordable and easily accessible source of treatment in the primary healthcare system among …
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Prioritization and selection of high fuelwood producing plant species at Boset District, Central Ethiopia: an ethnobotanical approach
BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, about 92.3% of all the fuelwood (firewood and/or charcoal) is consumed for cooking, heating and lighting purposes …
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Ethnobotany of an indigenous tree Piliostigma thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh. (Fabaceae) in the arid and semi-arid areas of South Omo Zone, southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Trees are important components of terrestrial ecosystems; they provide ecological, economic, and cultural services to humans. There is an …
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Comparative analysis of management practices and end-users’ desired breeding traits in the miracle plant [Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach & Thonn.) Daniell] across ecological zones and sociolinguistic groups in West Africa
BACKGROUND: Understanding end-users' preferred breeding traits and plant management practices is fundamental in defining sound breeding objectives and implementing a …
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Farmer preferred traits and genotype choices in Solanum aethiopicum L., Shum group
BACKGROUND: Solanum aethiopicum L. is a nutrient dense African indigenous vegetable. However, advancement of its improved varieties that can increase …
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Contested or complementary healing paradigms? Women’s narratives of COVID-19 remedies in Mwanza, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has caused worldwide fear and uncertainty. Historically, the biomedical disease paradigm established its dominance in tackling emerging infectious …
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Farmers’ perceptions of navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production constraints, preferred traits and farming systems and their implications on bean breeding: a case study from South East Lowveld region of Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: Navy bean is an important legume crop in Zimbabwe. Although its production in Zimbabwe is limited by multiple constraints …
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Ethnozoological and commercial drivers of the pangolin trade in Benin
BACKGROUND: Pangolins are trafficked in unsustainable volumes to feed both local and global trade networks for their meat and the …
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Traditional food taboos and practices during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and infant care of Zulu women in northern KwaZulu-Natal
BACKGROUND: Traditional practices and beliefs influence and support the behavior of women during pregnancy and childbirth in different parts of …
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Correction to: Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Participatory analysis of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cropping system and production constraints in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Groundnut is one of the major legume crops grown as food and cash crop across the different agroecological zones …
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Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors
BACKGROUND: In Southwest Ethiopia, various plant species are coexisting in wild and cultivated forms. This provides an ideal setting for …
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Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo
Abstract Background The phytotherapeutic knowledge of the Kongo people in the territories of Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu in Kongo-Central Province (DR …
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Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
Household responses to COVID-19 in different corners of the world represent the primary health care that communities have relied on …
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Ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by Baka people in southeastern Cameroon
BACKGROUND: Forest inhabitants worldwide, and indigenous people especially, have depended for generations on plants and animals harvested in these ecosystems. …
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Expanding the reach: ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Initiatives for beekeeping intensification across the tropics can foster production and income, but the changes triggered by the introduction …
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Correction to: Local preferences for three indigenous oil-seed plants and attitudes towards their conservation in the Kénédougou province of Burkina Faso, West-Africa
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Local preferences for three indigenous oil-seed plants and attitudes towards their conservation in the Kénédougou province of Burkina Faso, West-Africa
BACKGROUND: Carapa procera, Lophira lanceolata, and Pentadesma butyracea are three underutilized but increasingly threatened indigenous oil-seed tree species (IOS) in …
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The governance of traditional medicine and herbal remedies in the selected local markets of Western Kenya
BACKGROUND: A lot of emphasis is often placed on modern governance systems and little or no attention is given to …
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On-farm management and participatory evaluation of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan [L.] Millspaugh) diversity across the agro-ecological zones of the Republic of Benin
BACKGROUND: Pigeonpea is a multipurpose food legume crop that contributes to food security in the Republic of Benin. For the …