Procurement of traditional remedies and transmission of medicinal knowledge among Sahrawi people displaced in southwestern Algerian refugee camps

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 245-269

  Volpato, Gabriele ^a   Emhamed, Abdalahe Ahmadi ^b   Lamin, Saleh Mohamed ^b   Broglia, Alessandro ^b   Di Lello, Sara ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Sahrawi Arabic Democratic Republic ^*  (Algeria)

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