Unlocking plant resources to support food security and promote sustainable agriculture

T Ulian, M Diazgranados, S Pironon… - Plants, People …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

Three Amazonian palms as underestimated and little-known sources of nutrients, bioactive compounds and edible insects

T Jaramillo-Vivanco, H Balslev, R Montúfar… - Food Chemistry, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Mauritia flexuosa, Bactris gasipaes, and Oenocarpus bataua are among the main palms in
the Amazon used for food and medicinal purposes. The food most commonly derived from …

Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge

R Cámara-Leret, J Bascompte - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Over 30% of the 7,400 languages in the world will no longer be spoken by the end of the
century. So far, however, our understanding of whether language extinction may result in the …

Astonishing diversity—the medicinal plant markets of Bogotá, Colombia

RW Bussmann, NY Paniagua Zambrana… - Journal of ethnobiology …, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Despite the importance of local markets as a source of medicinal plants in
Colombia, comparatively little comparative research reports on the pharmacopoeiae sold …

Maximum levels of global phylogenetic diversity efficiently capture plant services for humankind

R Molina-Venegas, MÁ Rodríguez… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The divergent nature of evolution suggests that securing the human benefits that are directly
provided by biodiversity may require counting on disparate lineages of the Tree of Life …

Sustainable use and management of wild edible fruit plants: A case study in the Ulu Masen protected forest, West Aceh, Indonesia

AB Suwardi, ZI Navia - Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Wild edible fruit plant species (WEFs) are species that are not cultivated or domesticated but
are available in their natural habitat, providing a readily available source of food, medicine …

Fundamental species traits explain provisioning services of tropical American palms

R Cámara-Leret, S Faurby, MJ Macía, H Balslev… - Nature plants, 2017‏ - nature.com
The well-being of the global human population rests on provisioning services delivered by
12% of the Earth's∼ 400,000 plant species 1. Plant utilization by humans is influenced by …

Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments

R Cámara-Leret, Z Dennehy - Nature Sustainability, 2019‏ - nature.com
The need to understand nature's contributions to people and across a broad spectrum of
cultures and ecosystems is increasingly advocated in science assessments and policy …

Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans

SD Coelho, C Levis, FB Baccaro, FOG Figueiredo… - Plos one, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Plants have been used in Amazonian forests for millennia and some of these plants are
disproportionally abundant (hyperdominant). At local scales, people generally use the most …

The influence of socioeconomic factors on traditional knowledge: a cross scale comparison of palm use in northwestern South America

NY Paniagua-Zambrana, R Camara-Lerét… - Ecology and …, 2014‏ - JSTOR
We explored the power of 14 socioeconomic factors for predicting differences in traditional
knowledge about palms (Arecaceae) at the personal, household, and regional levels in 25 …