Eating from the wild: Turumbu indigenous knowledge on noncultivated edible plants, Tshopo district, DRCongo

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 173-207

  Termote, Céline ^a   van Damme, Patrick ^a   Djailo, Benoît Dhed'a ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KISANGANI   (Congo)

Author keywords

Domestication; Ethnobotany; Underutilized crops; Wild edible plants

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DOMESTICATION; EDIBLE SPECIES; ETHNOBOTANY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; VILLAGE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIODIVERSITY; COOKING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SEASON; SOCIOECONOMICS; VEGETABLE;

BIODIVERSITY; COOKING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRUIT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

CONGO;

ANONIDIUM; LANDOLPHIA OWARIENSIS; MEGAPHRYNIUM MACROSTACHYUM; TALINUM TRIANGULARE;

EID: 77952380651     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670241003766030     Document Type: Article

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