From economic survival to recreation: contemporary uses of wild food and medicine in rural Sweden, Ukraine and NW Russia

Abstract Background There are many ethnobotanical studies on the use of wild plants and mushrooms for food and medicinal treatment in Europe. However, there is a lack of comparative ethnobotanical research on the role of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) as wild food and medicine in local livelihoods...

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Main Authors: Stryamets, Nataliya, Elbakidze, Marine, Ceuterick, Melissa, Angelstam, Per, Axelsson, Robert
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2015
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Online Access:http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/11/1/53